Talk:Ice Blade, Joker/@comment-24893911-20141025205944/@comment-11372432-20141025222755

Zoro is correct. If you are superior calling a monster with the same name as your buddy and you have not buddy called this game, then you can make it into a buddy call, if you so wish to. This ruling has been in place since Jackknife came into the game.

Just a little addition, in case you also didn't know this: any monster with the same name as your buddy counts as your buddy, even if it wasn't buddy called, which helps a lot when it comes to effects that require you to have a buddy out, especially Ultimate Buddy! It also opens up the possibility of monsters changing their name to another monster's name when on the field, like certain YGO monsters like Prisma, Dark Panther, and certain Harpie and Cyber monsters, so you can effectively have more monsters that count as your buddy for funzies.