Effect
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by having exactly 5 EARTH monsters in your GY. When this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 monster in either player's GY; Special Summon that target. You can only use this effect of "Grandsoil the Elemental Lord" once per turn. If this face-up card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn.
【Regarding "Cannot be Normal Summoned. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by having exactly 5 EARTH monsters in your Graveyard"】
This is not treated as an effect. (A Chain Link is not built when Special Summoning this way.)
This card can only be Special Summoned by the method written in the text. It cannot be Special Summoned by the effects of other cards.
【Regarding the ① effect】
This is a Trigger Effect that can be activated in the Monster Zone.
【Regarding the ② effect】
This effect is not classified as an Ignition Effect, Trigger Effect, Quick Effect, or Continuous Effect. (It is applied without forming a Chain Link when this card leaves the field.)
This is also applied if this card, while face-up on the field, is returned to the Deck or banished face-down.
This is also applied if this card, while face-up in the Spell & Trap Zone, leaves the field.
This is not applied if this card becomes an Xyz Material, or if this card is detached as an Xyz Material.
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