Metal Detector PSV 022

common card, normal trap - Straight From The Junk Box of cards

text :
"You can activate this card when a Continuous Trap Card is activated. Negate all Continuous Trap Cards during the turn this card is activated."

Big problem with the wording of this card.

Does "is activated" in the first line mean immediately upon activation of the trap card you are trying to negate - or could it also be when the trap card was activated the previous turn? (At which point, you might say, "Yeah, it is activated alright.")

An example. Your opponent activated Imperial Order his last turn. Your turn, you play Change of Heart, and then Metal Detector. It seems to me Imperial Order would be negated.

The only card Metal Detector should not work on would be Royal Decree.

Any help? No one uses this card, and it has no ruling on UDE site.

Thank you for your prompt consideration and response. If this posting should be on another forum, please direct me to the correct one, as this is my first posting, and I don't know my way around here yet.

Hambone
near Houston, Texas

 
I'm thinking it would apply only to a trap card that is being activated, not the effect of a face-up Trap Card that has alrady resolved.
 
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