Divine Wrath Article

Now, Divine Wrath time:

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Divine Wrath

Counter Trap

Discard 1 card from your hand. Negate the activation and the effect of an Effect Monster and destroy the monster.



Divine Wrath can be used against any Trigger effect, besides Archfiends, because Archfiends are unique. Their Trigger effect occurs during chain resolution, so you cannot interrupt the chain to start a new one with Divine Wrath.

Divine Wrath can be used against Ignition effects, Multi-Trigger effects, and Flip Effects as well. Multi-Trigger effects include those such as Ryu Senshi, Dark Paladin, Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 8, Sorceror of Dark Magic, Maryokutai, A-Team: Trap Disposal Unit, etc.

You can also chain Divine Wrath to effects of Effect monsters that activate when summoned, such as Dark Magician of Chaos, Marauding Captain (in this case, the monster that was going to be Special Summoned remains in the woner's hand), Mobius the Frost Monarch, and the always popular Breaker the Magical Warrior.

Ignition effects that are subject to Divine Wrath include: The Creator, Homunculus the Alchemic Being. Also Divine Wrath also has uses that apply more to specific cards:

1. The LV monsters - you can use Divine Wrath on the Ignition effect of sending it to the Graveyard to summon the next monster up in "the LV chain".

2. Union monsters - you can also use Divine Wrath whenever a Union monster activates its effect to equip itself to another monster.

3. Lava Golem - you can activate Divine Wrath when Lava Golem deals damage.

4. Spirit Monsters - you may activate Divine Wrath when a Spirit monster goes to its owner's hand and the Spirit monster will go to the Graveyard.

5. Relinquished - You may use Divine Wrath against either effect of Relinquished.

6. Thousand-Eyes Restrict (TER) - You may use Divine Wrath against TER's absorption effect.

7. Dark Necrofear - You may use Divine Wrath against Dark Necrofear's effect of turning itself into an Equip Spell card during the End Phase.

8. Monsters that Tribute themselves, or Send themselves to the Graveyard - You may use Divine Wrath to negate Exiled Force, Paladin of White Dragon, Red Eyes B. Chick, Kaibaman, Kuriboh, etc.

9. Graveyard Activation - Divine Wrath may be used against Helpoemer, Night Assailant, Sangan, and any other effect that activates in the Graveyard, even though Divine Wrath cannot destroy it, it does not need to destroy the monster Effect it is trying to negate to resolve properly.

10. Damage Step Abilities - Divine Wrath can be activated in response to non-Continuous effects that activate during the Damage Step, like Mystic Tomato, D. D. Warrior Lady, Reflect Bounder, Injection Fairy Lily, Mystical Knight of Jackal, Kinetic Soldier, either effect of Don Zaloog, Airknight Parshath's drawing effect, Hyper Hammerhead, etc. If you destroy the defending or attacking monster with Divine Wrath, no replay occurs, because once you reach the Damage Step, no replays can occur. The attack is stopped, but stilled considered successful, and the monster cannot attack again.

11. Conditional Triggers - Monsters such as Mystic Swordsman LV 2, and Sasuke Samurai, can be Divine Wrath-ed when they attack a face-down monster.

12. XYZ monsters - you can chain Divine Wrath to the Union of these monsters, or to the Fusions' effects.

13. Vampire Lord-like recursion - when Vampire Lord or Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys attempts to Special Summon itself, Divine Wrath can be chained, and since it never left the Graveyard, it will not Activate again.

14. Sinister Serpent - you can use Divine Wrath against Sinister Serpent, but that being said, they can re-activate it during that same Standby Phase, so there is little point to doing that.

Phew, now for when you CANNOT use Divine Wrath:

1. Lava Golem - when Lava Golem is Special Summoned, you CANNOT use Divine Wrath.

2. XYZ Monsters - you CANNOT use Divine Wrath to stop the removal of the pieces, because that is a Summoning condition, not an Effect.

3. TER - you cannot use Divine Wrath against TER's ability to stop changing of positions, because this is continuous.

4. Fusion Subs - You cannot chain Divine Wrath when a Fusion Substitute, like King of the Swamp, is used in a Fusion Summon, because that is a Continuous Effect.

5. Continuous Effect - Divine Wrath cannot be used against monsters with continuous effects, such as Giant Orc, Goblin Attack Force and Spear Dragon (changing of position and FMC effect are both continuous), Different Dimension Dragon has 2 Continuous Effects, Perfect Machine King, Raging Flame Sprite (either effect), Jinzo, Fire Princess, Mad Sword Beast, Hayabusa Knight, Cat's Ear Tribe, Amazoness Swords Woman, Harpie Lady 3, Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast, The Fiend Megacyber, Blade Knight (either effect), monsters that can attack directly (Toon Monsters, Jinzo #7, Drillago (i don't see how that could happen, but oh well), etc.), or monsters like Element Saurus and Shadow Ghoul that gain ATK continuously.

also, can you guys rate this??? i wanna know what you really think.
 
Ok..That was a long article. So should I print your article out and bring it to every place and time that I use divine wrath?
 
Nice summary. Defenitely worth printing. Why not post it in Netrep Articles where it belongs? You can ask a moderator to move this thread in there.
 
I've already talked to somewan, and he said that if there were no big problems after y'all take your hacks at it, then he'll move them.

-chaosruler
 
i'm in the Articles section now!!

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Rate me, please!! :p

EDIT: chaos general - i hope you were being sarcastic about the length o_O

-chaosruler
 
Great Article!

Wait a minute...does this mean that Divine Wrath can negate any monster effect that can be chained to? This would make it much easier to explain....
 
This is what Konami says:

"Rolling a die for an Archfiend cannot be chained to since you are resolving an effect."

"The effect of rolling a die for an Archfiend is a Trigger Effect."

A Trigger that doesn't chain is a Continuous Effect. How can you activate a Trigger inside the resolution of an effect? How can you not be able to chain to this specific Trigger, but every other Trigger in the game can be chained to?

Regardless of what Konami says... they are not Triggers.
 
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