Duel Spirit Rules

Summoning:
~ You may Spirit summon your duel spirit at anytime except your opponent's battle phase.
~ when a duel spirit is spirit summoned:
~ ~ no card effects can stop the spirit summon. no Trap Hole or anything.
~ after you duel spirit is sent to the graveyard and it was spirit summon, it can only be resummoned during your turn.
~ Pay 500 Life Points to Spirit summon your duel spirit from the graveyard
~ Pay 1500 Life Points to Spirit summon your duel spirit after it was removed from play
~ Duel spirits can only be Spirit Summoned from the deck you are currently using, not from the other deck(s) *NEW*

Specials:
~ no damage can happen to your lifepoints when battle happens against your duel spirit.
~ Duel spirit can not be destroyed until the summoner's next end phase
Example:

Code:

turn 1: summon duel spirit
opponent turn 1: cant destroy duel spirit
then your turn then back to opponents turn and they can destroy it if they have a spell/trap card that can destroy it

~ If a card effect would drop your lifepoints to 0, you may send all cards with the same name as your duel spirit out of play to negate the attack


Spirit Limits
~ Normal Duelists' spirits are limited to being BELOW 1000 attack AND defense and must be level 4 or lower
~ Eternal Duelists' spirits are limited to being BELOW 1500 attack AND defense and must be level 4 or lower

Updated. please re-read rules

also, the 2 rules about paying life points DO NOT take effect during the first tournament.

updated again... be sure to read the new rules

updated again