pay half your life points....

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exiledforcefreak

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as of now there are two card that require you to pay half your life points; return from the differant dimension and solemn judgement. If my life points are 25 and i activate one of these two cards. do my life points become:

A)12
B)12.5
C)13
D)other (please explain)
?????
 
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I've noticed most TCGs (or at least one other) account for odd numbers in thier rulings. Usually they tell you to round to the nearest number. So in the case of 25, or any nunber ending in 5, you would round up. Suprised YGO hasn't written anything on odd numbers yet.
 
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I could have sworn that it was ruled, or written, by someone before. But, I may be mixing up YGO with another TCG. If you have 1 LP point left, and pay 1/2, then your LP of .50 would be rounded to 1, again... or something like that.
 
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You forgot one card that cuts your lps in half. Sure this card isn't very useful, but I shall mention it anyway, Jurai Gumo!

I would "assume" you would round. I don't think it would be much fun working with parts of life points.
 
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Not that we would use the video game versions...but I was attacking with Jurai Gumo last night, called the coin flip wrong, had an odd number of life points at the time (175, to be exact). And it rounded up (to 88). This was on the "Power Of Chaos, Kaiba the Revenge". Odd coincidence that it happened last night and then today there's this question...
 
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From a long time ago:

Solemn Judgment /Horn of Heaven
Q: Could you give me pointers on when to use this card?
A: You can negate Flip Monster's effect with this card because
it is considered not Summoned. When you activate this card,
your opponent must pay cost for action (Life Point, Tribute
Monster, Destroyed Monster, Discard of hand, etc.), even
though this card negates the action. You can also negate the
Special Summon (including Fusion Summon & Ritual Summon) with
this card. Regarding "Solemn Judgment": if your Life Points
have a decimal, round off.
 
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DaGuyWitBluGlasses said:
Round off, means round to the closest whole number (including zero)

But if its a decimal-five, the even number is favoure; zero, however, is not an even number.
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Where I live it's this way:

0:
0,1
0,2
0,3
0,4

1:
0,5
0,6
0,7
0,8
0,9
 
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I've always gone under the 'round up' (ie. you round upwards to next higher whole number) - I remember asking about what happens when you Solemn Judgment on 1 lp, and the answer I got from this forum was that your 0.5 gets rounded up to 1, and that in general you round upwards.
 
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I would've thought you had to have at least 2 LP to activate it, otherwise it's like activating a card requiring you to discard your hand as a cost when you've no cards in your hand.
 
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Not quite the same thing. You still have life points so you pay half. It's just mathematics that rounds it back up to what you started with in this case.

Of course to really get to 1, let's just assume you had 50 life points to start (which in of itself is no easy feat either). That would mean you'd have to activate 6 effects that require half your life points to even get down to 1 life point left anyway.
 
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Well, if time ran out and you had to compare life points, would you finish rounding the lifepoints up for comparison, or leave them in their fractional state for comparison? That would be interesting in the odd event both players were running some massive Solemn Judgement / Jirai Gumo decks 8^D
 
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that would be stupid if you need 2 lp inorder to activiate something that requires half of your lp. say that you have 2 lp and you pay half of it. your lp would now be 1 but you another cards that you want to activiate that cost half of your lp, now what? LOL

Wouldn't that be cool if you have 1 lp left and you're able to activiate 3 solemn judgement or win the game by paying half of your lp using Return From DD Warrior Lady's World. LOL

you would go from 1 to .5 and since they want you to round it the nearest whole #, it would be 1 again and you repeat the process.
 
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Dillie-O said:
Well, if time ran out and you had to compare life points, would you finish rounding the lifepoints up for comparison, or leave them in their fractional state for comparison? That would be interesting in the odd event both players were running some massive Solemn Judgement / Jirai Gumo decks 8^D
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On a similar note, if we are to round up lifepoints to the nearest whole point, then what would happen if time were caled, and each player had one life point left, even at the end of the round?

Now since that would turn the duel into a sort of "fist blood" sort of situation, what would happen if a player were to activate Solemn Jugment?

Would they lose because their lifepoints went down to .5, or would their 1/2 of a lifepoint be rounded up first, thus allowing them to continue the 1 on 1 lifepoint standoff?
 
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