Effect
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by having exactly 5 WIND monsters in your GY. If this card is Special Summoned: Destroy all Spells and Traps your opponent controls. You can only use this effect of "Windrose the Elemental Lord" once per turn. If this face-up card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn.
Regarding "This card cannot be Normal Summoned. You can only Special Summon this card (from your hand) if you have exactly 5 WIND monsters in your Graveyard": * This is not treated as an effect. (No Chain Link is created when Special Summoning this way.) * You can only Special Summon this card by the method described in the text. It cannot be Special Summoned by the effects of other cards.
【Regarding the ① effect】
This is a Trigger Effect that activates in the Monster Zone. (This effect activates automatically when this card is successfully Special Summoned. It does not target.)
【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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