Why is Obelisk affected by swords of revealing light?

[Raxus]

Obelisk's effect is pretty clear: he's untouchable by card effects.

So, I'm playing against a bot, and he's got swords of revealing light out, and I normal summon obelisk by doing the three tribute thing. Odd, he can't attack, guess if SORL is out already Obelisk will fall under its effect, no biggie.

However! When that SORL expires, he immediately plays another one, and Obelisk STILL cannot attack. This has to be a bug, right?

If Obelisk IS susceptible to card effects still, then he's pretty damn pointless; three monsters for vulnerability to mirror force and dark hole and whatever else? Lame.

[This is a house]

Try reading the cards before making a post. Swords of revealing lights does not negate the normal summon, nor does it target Obelisk. So everything is working as intended.

[Ichmag 🔑🌙]

We are talking about Obelisk the Tormentor right? Because that card does not have card effect immunity. Where did you get that from?

[mimizukari]

Where in Obelisk text does it say "This is unaffected by card effects."? It doesn't.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

Where in Obelisk text does it say "This is unaffected by card effects."? It doesn't.

Most likely, they just assumed that it worked exactly like the anime. The even more hilarious part is that "unaffected by card effects[yugipedia.com]" still manages to be less impressive than the OP thought it is. Even if he actually had it, he'd still be outed by Borrelsword and Kaiju, and depending on how a given card is worded he might even still be prevented him from attacking!

And to add insult to injury, the OP's "if/then" statement in the final paragraph is completely accurate; Obelisk sees no serious play and if it weren't for the nostalgia bait would see no casual play either.

[CH∀OS]

Obelisk's only protection is that it can not be targeted by card effects, which unfortunately, there are a lot of non-targeting removal effects.

[Salad-in]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

Where in Obelisk text does it say "This is unaffected by card effects."? It doesn't.

They're going by Anime-Obelisk, I guess.

[Ichmag 🔑🌙]

Originally posted by Mendacious Thot:

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

Where in Obelisk text does it say "This is unaffected by card effects."? It doesn't.

They're going by Anime-Obelisk, I guess.

actually, my dad works at konami and he says that is his hidden power

he also works at microsoft so i have every game on xbox xd

[Dreagon]

Yeah, he's not really good. And he's the best of those three cards.

[CH∀OS]

Originally posted by Dreagon:

Yeah, he's not really good. And he's the best of those three cards.

Though technically Ra is now the best of the three with the new Sphere and Phoenix cards, which is funny because that one used to be considered the worst lol

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by CH∀OS:

Originally posted by Dreagon:

Yeah, he's not really good. And he's the best of those three cards.

Though technically Ra is now the best of the three with the new Sphere and Phoenix cards, which is funny because that one used to be considered the worst lol

No, the original Ra card is still unplayable. Sphere is only good because it tributes three of your opponent's monsters as cost and isn't a Special Summon or an activated card/effect (meaning 90% of counterplay doesn't exist and the only part of the remaining 10% meta decks use is "don't end on 3+ monsters")

[CH∀OS]

Well in any case, you'd still need to make a deck that's focused around either of the god cards, not that anyone really plays them anymore. Though back to the Obelisk topic, the only "good" combo I can think of would be to use Hardened Armed Dragon as one of its tributes so that Obelisk can't be destroyed by card effects, along with not being targetable, though that still wont keep it from being unaffected by cards like Swords of Revealing Light, so in that case you'd just need some good backrow removal like Twin Twisters, Cosmic Cyclone, etc.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Oh, and something else I just remembered: the whole Ishizu vs Kaiba duel proves that Obelisk's protection is imperfect even in the anime!

[This is a house]

Originally posted by HeraldOfOpera:

Oh, and something else I just remembered: the whole Ishizu vs Kaiba duel proves that Obelisk's protection is imperfect even in the anime!

I am so glad you shared that fact with us.

[Salad-in]

Originally posted by HeraldOfOpera:

Oh, and something else I just remembered: the whole Ishizu vs Kaiba duel proves that Obelisk's protection is imperfect even in the anime!

Yeah but even that duel doesn't follow the rules.
her trap Blast Held by a Tribute should've blown his Blue-Eyes sky high.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Salad-in:

Originally posted by HeraldOfOpera:

Oh, and something else I just remembered: the whole Ishizu vs Kaiba duel proves that Obelisk's protection is imperfect even in the anime!

Yeah but even that duel doesn't follow the rules.
her trap Blast Held by a Tribute should've blown his Blue-Eyes sky high.

none of the duels in s1 followed the rules, the game didn't even stop using anime specific versions of the same cards til Arc-V, even then Dark Rebellion Dragon has a minute difference... It wasn't until Arc-V that they were even sort of playing by the same rules as IRL either. Any show before VRAINS is pretty much not something you should learn Yu-Gi-Oh on.