Mitsurugi Ritual

Per-phrase breakdown

• This card can be used to Ritual Summon any Reptile Ritual Monster. Activate 1 of these effects (but you can only use each effect of "Mitsurugi Ritual" once per turn); ● Ritual Summon 1 Reptile Ritual Monster from your Deck, by Tributing Reptile monsters from your hand or field whose total Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster. ● Ritual Summon 1 Reptile Ritual Monster from your hand, by Tributing up to 2 Reptile monsters from your hand, Deck, or field, whose total Levels equal the Level of the Ritual Monster. (Effect)

Judge-facing facts

• You must declare which '●' effect you are activating at the time of activation.
• Tributing monsters and Special Summoning the Ritual Monster do not happen simultaneously.
• The first '●' effect Ritual Summons from the Deck and Tributes from the hand or field.
• The second '●' effect Ritual Summons from the hand and Tributes up to 2 monsters from the hand, Deck, or field.

Card-specific notes from database

• (YGOResources) If the activation or effect of this card is negated, you cannot choose the same '●' effect again this turn.
• (YGOResources) If applying this card's effect via another card's effect (such as 'Urgent Ritual Art'), the 'once per turn' restriction is ignored, and you can choose a '●' effect you already used this turn.
• (YGOResources) When applying this card's effect via another card's effect, you must declare which '●' effect you are applying at the time of activation.
• (YGOResources) 'Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring' can be chained to the first '●' effect because it Special Summons from the Deck.
• (YGOResources) 'Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring' cannot be chained to the second '●' effect; Tributing from the Deck is not considered an effect that sends a card from the Deck to the Graveyard.
• (YGOResources) You can Tribute monsters from the Deck for the second '●' effect even while effects like 'Stellarknight Constellar Diamond' prevent players from sending cards from the Deck to the Graveyard.