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Article #3 - Improper Use of Magical Scientist

Hi, I came to bring this subject up because of how many times that I have to explain to people that Scientist cannot bring out certain cards, so I would like to make it final and a dead subject now.

Magical Scientist - For those of you who don't know, Magical Scientist is a monster who has an optional effect of paying 1000 LP to Special Summon a monster from your fusion deck of 6 stars or less. That monster cannot attack the opponent directly.

Now, the reason I have brought this subject up is there are many a duelist who start a Magical Scientist deck and shove 1-3 Fiend Skull Dragons, Ryu Senshis, and Dark Baltar the Terribles in their Fusion deck. This is perfectly legal, but in a larger sense, it is both unnecessary and stupid.

Magical Scientist CANNOT bring out FSD, RS, or DBtT because of their first line on their effect:
"This monster may only be Fusion Summoned by the above Fusion-Material Monsters."
The reason I say that Scientist cannot bring them out is first off, Scientist only Special Summons the Fusion monster, not Fusion Summons them. A Fusion Summon is defined as a summon of two or more monsters using either Fusion Gate or Polymerization. End of story. On another note, Scientist doesnt count as those Fusion-Material monsters. It is a seperate monster and is not to be associated with Fusion-Materials.

I have seen many a duelist do this, try and summon Fiend Skull or Ryu Senshi using Scientist, and I have informed them of their mistake, but still they pursue this and it has goten me mad. If Scientist could bring out FSD, Ryu Senshi, and Dark Baltar, than everyone would play it. It cannot, and as being an official way to put this matter to rest, I have contacted Upperdeck Entertainment and asked them about this card ruling. It should be 1-2 weeks before I get a response, but I will get back to you with an OFFICIAL letter from UDE as soon as I can.

On another note, Scientist can bring out some great monsters, including:
Punished Eagle
Empress Judge
Roaring Ocean Snake
Super Roboyarou and Robolady (but i wouldnt take Robolady)
Thousand-Eyes Restrict

Thank you all for your time.
~Siphon_X~

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