Lightning Vortex vs. Spirit of the Six Samurai
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Here's the ruling you need to answer this. Since they're all being destroyed at the same time, you can't save any of them with a "The Six Samurai" effect. The only one that matters, then, is Spirit of the Six Samurai, and its effect is straightforward.
In the end, only the monster that was equipped will remain. All other cards are destroyed.
I was thinking, that when one of them is being destroyed while he is equiped with spirit, that the effect of Spirit will kick in as soon as that Samurai is in process of being destroyed. So it will shield him from being destroyed and so I can destroy him in place of any other samurai ...
No, that's not it. I can't explain it well, but that's just how it is.
The nearest hand-wavy explanation I can offer (which is likely wrong anyway because it's full of nonsense) is that the Six Samurai are being destroyed, THEN the Six Samurai panic and try to kill each other off, but they can't, THEN Spirit saves the equipped monster. That's a nonsense explanation because it implies these simultaneous effects happen at different times, but it's just what happens.
Like, there's two stages to the destruction, when Six Samurai are involved. The first stage is trying to destroy whichever cards are being destroyed (all of them, in this case). In the middle you try to kill off other Six Samurai instead (in this case you can't). The second state is destroying the new targets (in this case, this second stage doesn't actually exist, because you didn't redirect any destruction). Then they're actually destroyed. It's at this last point, when they're actually destroyed, when Spirit of the Six Samurai kicks in. Again, this is nonsense, but I can't explain it. Sorry.
The nearest hand-wavy explanation I can offer (which is likely wrong anyway because it's full of nonsense) is that the Six Samurai are being destroyed, THEN the Six Samurai panic and try to kill each other off, but they can't, THEN Spirit saves the equipped monster. That's a nonsense explanation because it implies these simultaneous effects happen at different times, but it's just what happens.
Like, there's two stages to the destruction, when Six Samurai are involved. The first stage is trying to destroy whichever cards are being destroyed (all of them, in this case). In the middle you try to kill off other Six Samurai instead (in this case you can't). The second state is destroying the new targets (in this case, this second stage doesn't actually exist, because you didn't redirect any destruction). Then they're actually destroyed. It's at this last point, when they're actually destroyed, when Spirit of the Six Samurai kicks in. Again, this is nonsense, but I can't explain it. Sorry.
