Effect
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. When you Normal Summon a Warrior monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. Cannot be used as Synchro Material.
"This card cannot be Normal Summoned" is not treated as a monster effect. "Photon Papilloperative" is a Special Summon Monster that is Special Summoned from the hand by its own monster effect.
The monster effect "When you successfully Normal Summon a Warrior-Type monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand" is a Trigger Effect. (This effect does not target.)
If a "Photon Papilloperative" that was successfully Special Summoned by its own monster effect is sent to the Graveyard, it can be Special Summoned by the effect of "Monster Reborn."
"This card cannot be used as Synchro Material" is not treated as a monster effect.
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