Cloak and Dagger

 An early, leaked edit for the card's TCG design had the crosshairs left in, but targeting a red balloon instead of the head of the man in the picture. It's believed by some duelists that this change, as well as the decision to remove the crosshairs altogether in the final design, were done in light of recent sniper incidents in America.

TCG Rulings

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In place of declaring a FULL card name, a precise description of a card's stats, appearance, and/or effects, is considered acceptable so long as both players are in clear agreement over which card is being described.: Question/Mind Crush/Prohibition/ETC vs. Card Names

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OCG Rulings

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You declare the monster's name at resolution (not activation).: Cloak and Dagger

When the declared monster is Normal Summoned/Special Summoned/flipped, the effect which banishes starts a Chain.

You cannot activate (flip face-up) this card during the Damage Step

When this card is already face-up, if the declared monster is Special Summoned/flipped during the Damage Step, this card's effect activates.

Previously Official Rulings

You declare a monster card name when "Cloak and Dagger" resolves.

This card’s removal effect starts a Chain.

You cannot activate this card during the Damage Step.

If this card was already activated and face-up when the declared monster is flipped face-up or Summoned during the Damage Step, this card’s effect will activate at the same time as a Flip Effect (after Damage Calculation)

This card must be face-up and active on the field before the declared monster is Summoned or flipped face-up. If you Chain this card’s activation to the effect of a monster that activates when that monster is Summoned or flipped face-up and declare that monster’s name, it will not be removed from play.

If "Cloak and Dagger" is face-up and active, and the declared monster is Summoned or flipped face-up during resolution of a Chain, it will be removed from play after resolving all effects on that Chain.

If multiple copies of the declared monster are Summoned at the same time, they will all be removed from play.

If "Ring of Destruction", etc. is Chained to the effect of "Cloak and Dagger" to destroy the monster that was Summoned or flipped face-up, "Cloak and Dagger" will still remove itself from play.

If multiple copies of the declared monster are Summoned by effects on different Links of the same Chain, only the first one Summoned (the one Summoned at the highest Chain Link) will be removed from play. For example, if 2 copies of "Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World" are discarded at the same time, only 1 is removed from play.

If your opponent already controls a copy of the declared monster, then Summons another copy, only the newly Summoned monster will be removed from play.

If you Special Summon the monster declared by "Cloak and Dagger", you can Chain "Inferno Reckless Summon" to the effect of "Cloak and Dagger". Only the first monster Summoned (the one that triggered the effect of "Cloak and Dagger") will be removed from play.

Judge List Rulings

You cannot declare "Sheep Token", "Slime Token", etc. because you must declare existing Monster Card names, like "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", "Kuriboh", etc.: Cloak and Dagger versus tokens