Quickdraw Synchron
Edison Card Text
① During your Main Phase: You can send 1 other monster from your hand to the GY, and Special Summon this card from your hand.
Ⓒ For a Synchro Summon, you can substitute this card for any 1 "Synchron" Tuner.
Ⓒ can't be used as a Synchro Material, except for a monster that lists a "Synchron" Tuner as material.
No targeting
No Damage Step effect
Banlist • Unlimited
Interactions
Is Quickdraw treated as an activated effect? Is sending a card to the GY a cost to summon it?✓
You want to summon Quickdraw Synchron.
Quickdraw's Summon is treated as an activated effect, NOT an inherrent summon. Sending the card to the GY is NOT a cost.
Should Hardened Armed Dragon be ruled the same as Quickdraw Synchron?✓
Similar Summon text comparison.
No. The Quickdraw ruling is specific to Quickdraw at SJC Edison; without evidence, Hardened Armed Dragon is not assumed to work the same way.
Rulings
edisonformat.net
● The ① effect is an ignition effect. It activates, and can be chained to.
● Sending a card to the GY is part of the ① effect. It happens when this effect resolves.
If you can't send, you can't Summon. If you can't Summon, you don't send.
(If the effect is negated, you don't send a card from your hand to the GY)
edisonformat.com
No edisonformat.com ruling available.