Rulings

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Card	Type	Ruling	Link
The Dragon's Bead	Individual Card FAQs	When you first activate this card (flip it face-up) you do not have to activate its effect. You cannot flip this card and activate its effect in the same chain. (See "Chains, Activation, and Resolution" in the Advanced FAQ.)
The Dragon's Bead	Individual Card FAQs	If "The Dragon's Bead" is already face-up on the field, you may activate it multiple times in the same chain, but you must discard 1 card from you hand as a cost for each activation.
The Dragon's Bead	Individual Card FAQs	You cannot activate the effect of "The Dragon's Bead" during the Damage Step.
The Dragon's Bead	Individual Card FAQs	You cannot activate the effect of "The Dragon's Bead" to negate a Trap Card that has already resolved, such as a "Nightmare Wheel" the opponent activated on a previous turn.
The Dragon's Bead	Individual Card FAQs	You can only activate the effect of this card to negate a Trap Card that targets a face-up Dragon-Type monster, so it cannot negate "Mirror Force", "Waboku", "Torrential Tribute", "Bottomless Trap Hole", etc.
The Dragon's Bead	Netrep Rulings	"The Dragon's Bead" must already be active to negate a Trap targeting a Dragon-Type.
The Earth - Hex-Sealed Fusion	Individual Card FAQs	When you use this monster's second effect, you also get its first effect. So this monster enables you to perform a Special Summon of a Fusion Monster without "Polymerization", etc., and also acts as a "substitute" for one of the Fusion Material Monsters.
The Earth - Hex-Sealed Fusion	Individual Card FAQs	Using the second effect of this monster does not "properly" Fusion Summon the Fusion Monster. So it cannot be revived from the Graveyard, etc. If you use "Polymerization" then you can revive the Fusion Monster from the Graveyard, even if you used this monster as a "substitute" Fusion Material Monster.
The Earth - Hex-Sealed Fusion	Individual Card FAQs	To use the second effect of this monster, you must Tribute this monster plus the legal Fusion Material Monster (s) written on the Fusion Monster. For example, to Special Summon "Master of Oz" you must Tribute "The Earth – Hex-Sealed Fusion" as well as either "Big Koala" or "Des Kangaroo".
The Earth - Hex-Sealed Fusion	Individual Card FAQs	This monster's second effect cannot be used to Special Summon Fusion Monsters that can only be Summoned by Fusion Summon, such as "Dark Paladin".