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Notable Errata
June 26, 2002 - Metal Raiders
- Sangan
Original effect: "If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard: Add 1 monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck to your hand."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and you can't use the card you grab that turn)
Errata date: September 15, 2016
- Witch of the Black Forest
Original effect: "If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard: Add 1 monster with 1500 or less DEF from your Deck to your hand."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and you can't use the card you grab that turn)
Errata date: July 6, 2017
- Catapult Turtle
Original effect: "You can Tribute 1 monster; inflict damage to your opponent equal to half the Tributed monster's ATK on the field."
(errata is a Once Per Turn)
Errata date: June 27, 2014
October 20, 2002 - Pharaoh's Servant
- Imperial Order
Original effect: "Negate all Spell Card effects on the field. During each of your Standby Phases, pay 700 Life Points or destroy this card."
(errata makes payment mandatory, and you pay during BOTH standby phases)
Errata date: March 30, 2017
July 18, 2003 - Pharaonic Guardian
- Ring of Destruction
Original effect: "Target 1 face-up monster on the field; destroy that target, and if you do, inflict damage to both players equal to that target's ATK."
(errata only lets you activate during your turn, only target opponent's monsters, you can't inflict lethal damage, and you take the damage first anyway)
Errata date: March 19, 2015
April 15, 203 - Stairway to the Destined Duel (game)
- Sinister Serpent
Original effect: "During your Standby Phase, if this card is in your Graveyard: You can return it to your hand."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and makes you banish it from the graveyard later)
Errata date: March 19, 2015
June 6, 2003 - Legacy of Darkness
- Twin-Headed Behemoth
Original effect: "If this card is destroyed and sent from the field to the Graveyard, Special Summon it during the End Phase of this turn with 1000 ATK and 1000 DEF. You can only use this effect once per Duel."
(errata is a hard Once Per Duel and fixes the issues with tracking this effect)
Errata date: October 23, 2015
October 12, 2004 - Dark Beginning 1
- Makyura the Destructor
Original effect: "During the turn this card was sent to the Graveyard, you can activate Trap Cards from your hand."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and requires it to be sent from the field to the graveyard)
Errata date: September 24, 2020
March 1, 2004 - Invasion of Chaos
- Dark Magician of Chaos
Original effect: "When this card is Summoned: You can target 1 Spell Card in your Graveyard; add that target to your hand. Banish any monster destroyed by battle with this card. If this face-up card would leave the field, banish it instead."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and you don't get the spell until the end phase)
Errata date: November 12, 2015
- Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End
Original effect: "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster from your Graveyard. You can pay 1000 Life Points; send all cards in both players' hands and on the field to the Graveyard, then inflict 300 damage to your opponent for each card sent to the Graveyard by this effect."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, only inflicts damage based on cards sent to opponent's graveyard, and locks you out of activating any other cards/effects that turn)
Errata date: June 27, 2014
March 1, 2005 - Flaming Eternity
- Rescue Cat
Original effect: "You can send this face-up card to the Graveyard to Special Summon 2 Level 3 or lower Beast-Type monsters from your Deck. Those monsters are destroyed during the End Phase."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and negates the effects of the monsters summoned)
Errata date: March 30, 2017
June 1, 2005 - The Lost Millennium
- Brain Control
Original effect: "Pay 800 LP, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; take control of that target until the End Phase."
(errata can only targets monsters which can be Normal summoned)
Errata date: March 30, 2017
November 5, 2005 - Elemental Energy Sneak Peek
- Exchange of the Spirit
Original effect: "Activate only while there are 15 or more cards in your Graveyard. Pay 1000 Life Points. Both players swap the card(s) in their Graveyard with the card(s) in their Deck. Then, both players shuffle their Decks."
(errata is a hard Once Per Duel, and requires both players to have 15 or more cards in each graveyard)
Errata date: March 19, 2015
August 16, 2006 - Power of the Duelist
- Future Fusion
Original effect: "Show 1 Fusion Monster in your Extra Deck and send the Fusion Materials listed on it from your Main Deck to the Graveyard. During your 2nd Standby Phase after this card's activation: Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck with the same name as the monster you showed, and target it with this card. When this card leaves the field, destroy that target. When that target is destroyed, destroy this card."
(errata makes you wait til the 1st standby phase after activation before showing the Fusion monster and sending the materials)
Errata date: March 30, 2017
January 27, 2007 - Shonen Jump Championship 2007 A
- Crush Card Virus
Original effect: "Tribute 1 DARK monster with 1000 or less ATK; check your opponent's hand, all monsters they control, and all cards they draw until the end of your opponent's 3rd turn after this card's activation, and destroy all monsters with 1500 or more ATK."
(errata only checks & removes cards upon activation, then lets your opponent pick up to 3 monsters to destroy in their deck, and your opponent takes no damage until the end of the next turn)
Errata date: March 19, 2015
March 20, 2007 - World Championship 2007 (game)
- Destiny HERO - Disk Commander
Original effect: "When this card is Special Summoned from the Graveyard: Draw 2 cards."
(errata is a hard Once Per Duel, and cannot be special summoned from the graveyard the turn it was sent there)
Errata date: October 4, 2018
September 2, 2008 - The Duelist Genesis
- Goyo Guardian
Original effect: "1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters"
(errata made it require and Earth Tuner for materials)
Errata date: March 30, 2017
February 1, 2009 - Shonen Jump February 2009 subscription bonus
- Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
Original effect: "You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by banishing 1 face-up Dragon-Type monster you control. Once per turn: You can Special Summon 1 Dragon-Type monster from your hand or Graveyard, except "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon"."
(errata can only be summoned Once Per Duel, and the effect is a hard Once Per Turn)
Errata date: July 2, 2020
September 3, 2009 - Crimson Crisis
- Dark Strike Fighter
Original effect: "You can Tribute 1 monster to inflict damage to your opponent equal to its Level x 200."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and can only activate during Main Phase 1)
Errata date: October 23, 2014
November 10, 2009 - Hidden Arsenal
- Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
Original effect: "You can discard any number of cards to the Graveyard to target the same number of cards on the field; return those targets to the hand."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and can only target opponent's cards)
Errata date: March 30, 2017
May 25, 2010 - Duel Terminal 2
- Dewloren, Tiger of the Ice Barrier
Original effect: "Once per turn, you can return any number of face-up cards you control to the owner's hand. For each card returned to the owner's hand by this effect, this card gains 500 ATK until the End Phase."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, and cannot target itself)
Errata date: Febrary 18, 2021
October 15, 2010 - Structure Deck: Marik
- Temple of the Kings
Original effect: "The controller of this card can activate Trap Cards the same turn they are Set. If you control "Mystical Beast of Serket" and this card, you can send both to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 monster from your hand, Deck, or Extra Deck."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn on both effects, only allows you to activate 1 Trap Card, and only allows summoning Fusion Monsters from the Extra Deck)
Errata date: March 19, 2015
August 24, 2012 - Return of the Duelist
- Grandsoil the Elemental Lord
Original effect: "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by having exactly 5 EARTH monsters in your Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. When this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 monster in either player's Graveyard; Special Summon that target to your side of the field. If this card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn, only floats if it leaves the field face-up)
Errata date: June 7, 2018
August 3, 2017 - Code of the Duelist
- Firewall Dragon
Original effect: "Once while face-up on the field (Quick Effect): You can target monsters on the field and/or GY up to the number of monsters co-linked to this card; return them to the hand. If a monster this card points to is destroyed by battle or sent to the GY: You can Special Summon 1 monster from your hand."
(errata is a hard Once Per Turn on both effects, and can only summon Cyberse monsters)
Errata date: April 15, 2021