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I have a question, as the title suggests: Say I have armed Dragon lvl 5 in my hand, but no Armed Dragon Lvl 3 on the field. Can I Tribute Summon AD Lvl 5 by tributing another monster, say Soul Tiger, instead?
Ah, peanuts! So, another example: Mystic Swordsman lvl 4 in my hand, no Msytic Sowrdsman Lvl 2 on the field. So I am guessing I cannot normal Summon Mystic Swordsman Lvl 4 straight up.
False. Level five Armed dragon and level four mystic swordsman both can be summoned normally. Only their higher level counterparts, like 7 and 8, can only be special summoned. You may still tribute for armed dragon in a normal summon, or normal summon mystic swordsman. In fact, on Mystic swordsman level 4, he has specific requirements for his normal summoning, in which he has to be face down for a turn first.
Just for a follow up thing, if I take my opponent's Armed Dragon LV 5 via Brain Control or something like that, and it destroys something, I can Tribute it away by its own effect to try to summon Armed Dragon LV 7 (even if you don't have Armed Dragon LV 7 in your deck).
Actually, if you tribute it, since it goes to your opponent's graveyard, I believe that THEY would get to be able to summon the next level (in this case, Armed Dragon LV. 7), considering the rulings on other search monsters like Witch and Sangan...However, if no one HAS the LV. 7, no one can sacrifice the LV. 5 anyway.
Don't know the policy on the actual game itself, but if it's going by what should happen, the controller of the effect should get it, regardless of where the card goes into the graveyard (since the card DOES NOT have a graveyard effect such as sangan and witch).
