My Body as a Shield & Spell Economics

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Was there ever an official ruling on the question of whether Spell Economics waived the life point cost for My Body as a Shield?
 
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However, My Body as a Shield does not have the same formatting as most payment activation costs. Yes, I know that we're not supposed too caught up in text formatting, but it also shouldn't be ignored altogether.

When your opponent activates a card that has the effect that destroys 1 or more monsters on the field, pay 1500 Life Points to negate the activation of the card and destroy it.
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Now lets look at some clear cut activation costs and there templating

Abyssal Designator
Pay 1000 Life Points. Declare a Type and an Attribute. Your opponent must send 1 monster with both the Type and Attribute declared from his/her hand or Deck to the Graveyard.

Autonomous Action Unit
Pay 1500 Life Points. Select 1 monster from your opponent's Graveyard, Special Summon it to your side of the field in Attack Position, and equip it with this card. When this card is removed from the field, destroy the equipped monster.

Diffusion Wave-Motion
Pay 1000 Life Points. Select 1 Level 7 or higher Spellcaster-Type monster on your side of the field. During this turn, only the selected monster can attack and it attacks all monsters on your opponent's side of the field once each. The effects of Effect Monsters destroyed by this attack(s) are not activated.

Magic Jammer
Discard 1 card from your hand. Negate the activation of a Spell Card and destroy it.

Deck Devastation Virus
Tribute 1 DARK monster with an ATK of 2000 points or more on your side of the field. Check all monsters on your opponent's side of the field, your opponent's hand, and all cards he/she draws (until the end of your opponent's 3rd turn after this card's activation), and destroy all monsters with an ATK of 1500 or less.
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Acivation costs are predominently the first statement within a cards text. My body as shield seems to care more about whether an effect that destroys monsters was activated, rather then paying 1500.
 
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But the cost of MBAAS is part of the first sentence, it's not a sentence that comes after the first one.

That's why I think that you don't have to pay for it while SE is on the field.
 
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Theres only one sentence in my body as shield. As an activation cost it would have probably read:

Pay 1500 Life Points. When your opponent activates a card that has the effect that destroys 1 or more monsters on the field, negate the activation of the card and destroy it.
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This would have been the proper way to phrase it as an activation cost
 
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I agree with DJ on this one. Based on the 'arrangement' of the card text, this does not appear to be an activation cost.

Anyway, I have sent this issue up the chain and am awaiting an answer from the board.


(yay!..1000th post!...woo hoo!)..:D


[edit]btw..if you really read how the text is on "My Body as a Shield", you aren't paying 1500 LPs to activate "MBaaS", you are paying 1500 LPs to negate the activation of the card and destroy it. Just thought I'd throw that in as well.
 
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Digital Jedi said:
Theres only one sentence in my body as shield. As an activation cost it would have probably read:

Quote:
Pay 1500 Life Points. When your opponent activates a card that has the effect that destroys 1 or more monsters on the field, negate the activation of the card and destroy it.
This would have been the proper way to phrase it as an activation cost
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That would have been very odd phrasing for a quick-play spell card, don't you think? That sounds like the phrasing for a continuous spell card, don't you think?
 
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kansashoops said:
That would have been very odd phrasing for a quick-play spell card, don't you think? That sounds like the phrasing for a continuous spell card, don't you think?
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Possibly. Yet Magic Jammer reads the same way.


Perhaps...
Pay 1500 Life Points. Negate the activation of a card controlled by your opponent that has the effect that destroys 1 or more monsters on the field and destroy it.
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...would be more appropriate.
 
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It's just a poorly worded Cost Effect for a Quick-Play Spell card. I mean, it came out of the same booster pack as Autonomous Action Unit and yet the two have dramatically different card wording flavor. Like in Jedi's most recent post, that's what it should read.

Btw, they both originally come in Magician's Force.
 
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Maybe, but I liked the way skey23 phrased it in his edit:
[edit]btw..if you really read how the text is on "My Body as a Shield", you aren't paying 1500 LPs to activate "MBaaS", you are paying 1500 LPs to negate the activation of the card and destroy it. Just thought I'd throw that in as well.
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Though, that too makes it sound more similar to a Continuous card and a trigger condition.
Its that which makes a difference in intention.
 
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But the card clearly states "PAY", which implies cost. Not at activation maybe, but that is the only debatable thing here. Although the wording is not clear, I still think that this would be an activation cost, because it is a one use quickplay spell card. Now if Royal Oppression were a continuous spell card, I don't think it would work with Spell Economics, because it is activated and then you pay cost to use its effect.


But thats my opinion.
 
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I know it's a cost effect. It just has the activation requirement first and then the payment part later. Sure the card text should have an errata, but it still is understandable on how the card is played. It's played the same with or without the Card Errata.
 
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"pay this TO do this" is the old template for a cost and effect.

Old text of Exiled Force:
"Tribute this face-up card on your side of the field to destroy 1 monster on the field."

3-Hump Lacooda has a very similar wording to My Body as a Shield:

If there are 3 face-up "3-Hump Lacooda" cards on your side of the field, offer 2 of them as Tributes to draw 3 cards.
"¢ Tributing 2 "3-Hump Lacoodas" is a cost.

Amazoness Chain Master also has a cost though it doesn't appear at the very beginning of the card's text.

Activation conditions often come before Costs.
 
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