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rayne04

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We aren't sure about the answer, we think it can go either way.

Fossil Excavation, can you discard a dino as the cost and then special summon the dino that you discarded with that same Fossil Excavation?
 
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If you had no dinosaur monsters in the graveyard at all, I assume you wouldn't be able to activate Fossil Excavation in the first place. You can't activate something that will initially resolve with no effect.

However, let's assume you did have another dinosaur in the graveyard upon activation. You pay the discard cost immediately when you activate Fossil Excavation. By the time you have to select the monster, the dinosaur you discarded would be a perfectly eligible target.
 
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hmmm....how litteraly do we take text and the order of events?

fossil excavation text
Discard 1 card from your hand. Select 1 Dinosaur- type monster in yourGraveyard AND Special summon it. Any monster
Special Sumoned this way has it's effect negated. When this card is removed from the field, destroy that monster. When the monster is destroyed, destroy this card.


since it says "discard"(period) before "target/select" and "do/effect" i would have thought it targets at resolution rather than activation.
some cards you select/target and then "pay/discard/tribte/send" to do "effect"....
but i am forever wrong on these...with no rulings in faq or Netrepâ„¢ its apparently thought to be more clear it may actually be to some of us....sigh...anyone have a link to judges forum/rulings??

edit - dang staggered off for coffe in the middle and lo and behold.... lol ah well thanks...
 
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