"orignal" attack

[KOCW]

The “Original ATK” of a monster is normally the number printed on the card, and
does not include changes because of Spell, Trap, or Monster Card effects.

However, some recent monsters modify their original ATK/DEF (“King of the Skull
Servants”, “Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast”), instead of just-plain-old
ATK/DEF (“Shadow Ghoul”). Original ATK/DEF can also be modified by card effects
that specifically say so (“Megamorph”, which doubles or halves original ATK).

When combining these two, you can run into problems, and there’s been some
confusion as to whether “Megamorph” modifies “original” ATK/DEF, or “printed”
ATK/DEF. The answer is that “printed” ATK/DEF isn’t actually a term in Yu-Gi-Oh!
TCG, and is in fact dangerous to use because it runs contrary to Konami thinking.
So we will speak no more of it!

If you have a monster on the field with modified “original” ATK/DEF (“King of the
Skull Servants”, “Fusilier Dragon, the Dual Mode Beast”, “Behemoth the King of All
Animals”, and various other cards with long names), and you equip it with
“Megamorph”, it doubles or halves the original ATK/DEF according to the card
effect.

Examples:

If you have “King of the Skull Servants” with an original ATK of 2000 (2 “Skull
Servant” cards in your Graveyard), and you equip it with “Megamorph”, its original
ATK will be 4000 when your Life Points are lower, and 1000 when your Life Points
are higher.

If you have “Behemoth the King of All Animals” with an original ATK of 2000
because you Summoned or Set him with 1 Tribute, and you equip it with “Megamorph”,
its original ATK will be 4000 when your Life Points are lower, and 1000 when your
Life Points are higher.

If you have “Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast” with original ATK of 1400
because you Summoned or Set it without Tribute, and you equip it with “Megamorph”,
its original ATK will be 2800 when your Life Points are lower, and 700 when your
Life Points are higher.

These specific examples have been added to the FAQ under the 3 appropriate cards.

The oddball ruling, at this time, is “Inferno Fire Blast”, which inflicts 2400
damage to the opponent even if the original ATK of “Red-Eyes B. Dragon” is 4800
because of “Megamorph”. (Or even 9600 ATK, or 19200….) This is because the
original intent of “Inferno Fire Blast” is to inflict 2400 damage. We’re
discussing with Konami the possibility of an errata to “Inferno Fire Blast” to
address this problem, and we’ll keep you posted.

Kevin Tewart
Game Designer
UDE Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG R&D Lead
Upper Deck Entertainment

[Thunder_Struck]

thats a bit gay....... king of the skull servants is the best card outta the TLM set

[The Boss]

IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO FIND OUT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. AS THE VIEW WAS ORIGNAL ATK WAS THE PRINTED VALUE ON THE CARD. BUT THIS AGAIN CAN LEAD TO CARD ABUSE LIKE IN THE EXAMPLE OF THE DUAL MODE BEAST AND MEGAMORPH.

CANT WAIT TO SEE THE FIX ON THIS

[Thunder_Struck]

theres been countless arguments about ariginal atk of these super cards....... hopefully it will actually make make some sense seemings how ude are adressing the problems within the game for a change

[KOCW]

The way i c it in a simple form.

If it has got a printed attack (ie dark magician) then thats the orginal atk.
If its got say a ? for an atk (ie king of skull servent) then the original atk is the one caused by the effect.

[RedCap]

makes sense

[Thunder_Struck]

UDE just need to make a rule book that will stick and wont be questioned. the game is just wat the lvel 5's want it to be..... i.e. sucks

[The Boss]

THATS THE TRUTH.......TOO MANY CHANGING RULES ALL THE TIME THEY NEED TO JUST STICK TO ONE THING.

[Thunder_Struck]

if they do then duelists will be coming back to to the game that was once great ;D

[_ys_]

I read somewhere, possibly the v5.0 rulebook, that the original attack is what's printed on the card. A ? is taken as 0.

But from what's been said in this thread, a card such as 'Maju Garzett' goes against this and would have an original attack of "the combined original ATK of the 2 monsters tributed for the tribute summon" and not 0 as the rules suggest.

I'm confused.

[Topman_2005]

Arent we all....

[The Boss]

ARH BUT THE ORIGNAL ATK OF CARDS LIKE MAJU ARE BASED ON THE SUMMONING REQUIREMENTS SURLY THAT THEN BECOMES THE ORIGNAL ATTACK.........................

[KOCW]

Indeed it does but if say it gets flipped facedown for example it loses it stats since the effect is reset. This is gd for fuslier dragon but not for maju