Search results

When you enter your own Main Phase, you have priority to activate a card (even ss1) or an effect (even ss1) or declare a summon before your opponent can do anything. This is the "full" priority of the turn player, as opposed to the retained priority after a summon or the limited priority for a...

Its effect makes it a Normal Monster. Normal monsters are unaffected by Skill Drain. => It's effect makes it unaffected by SD. Stop thinking in colors ^^ If you destroy your opponent's Dark Necrofear and it is equipped to a monster, it is treated as an Equip Spell Card. It's still...

And again, that was exactly what I had said in the first point, when i stated that the question is not which monster GB can get back, but *when* (i.e. under which circumstances, i.e. either when a BEAST-type monster is destroyed and sent to the graveyard or when a BEAST-type monster other than...

How can SD negate the effect of a monster whose effect makes itseld unaffected by the effect of SD? Take Wildheart for example. Wildheart is orange, and is an Effect Monster card. As such you can say that it is the effect of the card that makes it unaffected by SD initually, and when SD...

AFAIK there's no ruling for it yet, at least not among the official sources (UDE FAQ, JCP Rules Forum) Congratulations, you have successfully repeated what I had posted just above you. If you cannot see it, then that doesn't mean it's not there. Understanding the game mechanics behind the...

Hm, I honestly wonder why so many people come to the conclusion that the effect of SL does not target. It destroys 1 face-up monster on the field. You choose which monster, and you pay the cost accordingly. It has "targeting" written all over it, at least imho. While there's no corresponding...

Skill Drain Group: Trap Card Type: Trap Icon:Continuous Pay 1000 Life Points. As long as this card remains face-up on the field, negate the effects of all face-up Effect Monsters on the field. While a Gemini Monster is face-up on the field, without having been normal summoned using its...

Seems like the effect of GB is slightly misunderstood. Green Baboon is definitely able to revive itself (and only itself). The question is, *when* can its effect be activated. Night Assailant cannot get itself out of the graveyard. Green Baboon can only get itself out of the graveyard...

Despite of the wording, if an effect monster is affected by the effect of Ha Des, then its effect(s) cannot be activated. If "Sinister Serpent", "Twin-Headed Behemoth", or "Marie the Fallen One" is destroyed by a Fiend-Type monster when this card is on the field, they will not activate on any...

It's even "officially" official, since it was answered here. So Trigger Effects and Spell Speed 2-3 effects can be activated right off the bat, but both players have to pass priority once each before the Turn Player can perform a summon or activate a non-quickplay Spell Card or an Ignition...

The correct time would be during SubStep 2 of the Damage Step, right after the defending monster is flipped face-up. So if the defending monster had a Flip Effect, it would activate.

Actually the BTH ruling does not need any special explanation. It's just a comfirmation for the fact that the Grandmaster's effect can activate wherever the card went after its destruction. But no matter if it went the the graveyard or the RFG pile, it's under control of its owner when its...

The Grandmaster's effect activates in the graveyard or wherever the card went from the field due to its destruction. http://lists.upperdeck.com/read/messages?id=12464#12464 So when the effect activates, the card is already under the control of its owner. But in the above scenario, the...

There happens to be a minor difference: BBtD can only be chained to an effect that would inflict damage to your LPs. Damage Polarizer can also be chained to an effect that would only inflict damage to your opponent's LPs.

Looks like the Levia Ruling got some support: http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/OP/COMMUNITY/forums/thread/756710.aspx Maybe the Demise Ruling will finally be reversed... in a few years ^^

Hmm, based on the available ruling for cards with similar effects (destroy a monster, then do something else, connected by an "and"), it seems that the monster would not switch sides. Assault on GHQ ruling: If you cannot destroy a monster with this effect, you cannot send cards from your...

It's true that, gramatically, "activate" could refer to "cards" or to "effects". However, since the text states "Spell, Trap and Monster Cards", it's not possible that "activate" refers to "cards", because Monster Cards cannot activate. Thus, it has to refer to "effects". There's nothing...

Both effects are optional Trigger Effects. So if you choose to activate both of them, then you can decide which effect will be Chain Link 1 and which one will be Chain Link 2. If you choose to activate the effect of HotU as Chain Link 1 and the effect of Dasher as Chain Link 2, then the...

Not possible. The lingering effect does not have a spell speed. Thus, it's resolved directly after the draw, and no one can chain to it. When you get priority to start a chain in response to the draw, it's already too late to activate the effect of DDC, since it's already been destroyed.

A player can only respond to actions, and the start of a new phase is not an action. An "action" can be: -> drawing a card -> resolving a card or an effect -> setting a card -> successfully summoning a monster -> attacking -> changing the battle position of a monster -> discarding a...