Ben Kai vs Kuriboh

[Osiris]

Ok, I know you guys are good for giving answers to the less obvious so I'm here to ask for an explination behind a ruling.

Here's the message as given by Curtis:

Situation is as follows:

Joey controls Armed Samurai - Ben Kei equipped with 3 equip spell cards: 2 Axes of Despair and a Big bang Shot.

He declares his first attack...and his opponent discards Kuriboh to bring the damage to 0. If Joey continues to attack with Ben Kei, will all the damage inflicted by that monster for the entire battle phase be brought to 0?

Kuriboh's wording would bring me to conclude this.

Answer:
"Kuriboh" only protects your Life Points from one attack. Ben Kei's other attacks will not be affected.

An explination behind the ruling would be appreciated. Thanks peoples.

 

[Duelmaster]

Ok, I know you guys are good for giving answers to the less obvious so I'm here to ask for an explination behind a ruling.

Here's the message as given by Curtis:



An explination behind the ruling would be appreciated. Thanks peoples.

Make the Battle Damage inflicted to your Life Points by 1 of your opponent's monsters 0.

With this the mean 1 attack , not all attacks it protects you only against 1 attack.

 

[Osiris]

Make the Battle Damage inflicted to your Life Points by 1 of your opponent's monsters 0.

With this the mean 1 attack , not all attacks it protects you only against 1 attack.

Yes, I know what they mean, but I want to know the specifics behind it all... Ben Kai in the example above is '1 of my opponent's monsters'... I'd like a better explination, please.

Just as a reference... I have a working theory that despite having multiple attacks, that the monster (in this case Ben Kai) is considered to be a 'different' monster for each attack...

 

[Digital Jedi]

This is an example of where Kevin has said that sometimes the wording is not to clear. For example, monsters unaffected by Spell Cards can can attack under Messenger of Peace and Swords of Revealing Light or through Toll with out paying, even though these cards do not effect the monsters, only the player. But in that case it doesn't matter. The wording suggests that they only affect the player, but in fact the card has an effect on the monsters.

So in Kuriboh's case it is similar. He only stops the damage inflicted from one attack. There's no clear logic that can be exrapolated from the text alone. The only thing we can say is that this monster's text probably reads more clearly in Japanese and it wasn't effectivly tranlslated. This happens way too often, in my opinion, and has a great many players confused and frustrated

 

[Raijinili]

The logic behind it:

BE2-JP044
手札からこのカードを捨てる。
自分が受ける戦闘ダメージを１度だけ０にする。
この効果は相手のバトルフェイズ中のみ使用する事ができる。
http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/puppiy/rule/index.html

Discard this card from your hand.
Reduce battle damage to you to 0 one time.
This effect is used only during the opponent's battle phase.

 

[Osiris]

The logic behind it:

BE2-JP044
手札からこのカードを捨てる。
自分が受ける戦闘ダメージを１度だけ０にする。
この効果は相手のバトルフェイズ中のみ使用する事ができる。
http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/puppiy/rule/index.html

Discard this card from your hand.
Reduce battle damage to you to 0 one time.
This effect is used only during the opponent's battle phase.

Thanking you, has this been forwarded to UDE so that they can issue another errata??

 

[Digital Jedi]

The logic behind it:

BE2-JP044
手札からこのカードを捨てる。
自分が受ける戦闘ダメージを１度だけ０にする。
この効果は相手のバトルフェイズ中のみ使用する事ができる。
http://home.att.ne.jp/moon/puppiy/rule/index.html

Discard this card from your hand.
Reduce battle damage to you to 0 one time.
This effect is used only during the opponent's battle phase.

As I said, poor translation.

 

[Raijinili]

I would say that the original text was unclear. This IS the most updated text.

And if Osiris wants to tell UDE, he can do it himself. OR... wait for the next printing of Kuriboh.