Stamping Destruction

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Stamping Destruction You can activate this card only when you have a face-up Dragon-Type monster on your side of the field. Destroy 1 Spell or Trap Card on the field to inflict 500 points of Direct Damage to the destroyed card's controller.

Comparing this to the lvl monsters, does the "destroy TO inflict damage" statement make destroying a spell / trap a cost of the damage inflicting effect thereby destroying on activation and unable to be negated?
 
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You must be able to destroy the targeted card successfully duing resolution to inflict 500 damage.

So, if you activate SD on your opponent's face down Ring of Destruction, then your opponent chains with RofD, then later chains Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy his RofD, then his RofD still resolves and he does not loose his LP because MST destroyed the RofD and not SD.
 
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What im asking is that when I activate Stamping Destruction is the targeted spell or trap card destroyed on activation as a cost TO inflict the damage?

EDIT: I'm not arguing that the targeted card has to be destroyed to inflict damage.
 
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Stamping Destruction must destroy a Spell or Trap Card in order to inflict damage. If your opponents Chains to the activation, then the card would still get the effect of destroying a card even though the card would have been destroyed by Game Mechanics.

You would not get the effect if your opponent chained with Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy his, or even your card. So yes, it is a cost to inflict damage to your opponent as you must destroy a card to cause damage or the effect disappears.

Stamping Destruction is still a chainable event. The card targeted CAN become part of a chain, or Stamping can just resolve and destroy the card.
 
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If destroying a Spell or Trap card is indeed a cost, and all costs on a card are paid on activation, wouldnt the targeted card automatically be destroyed before the opponent can respond?
 
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Stamping Destruction's effect:

On Activation:
1) Activate Stamping Destruction and target a spell or trap card.

* Opponent may chain here *

On Resolution:
1) Staming Destruction will attemp to destroy the targeted card.
2) If it destroys the card successfully, then inflict 500 points of Direct Damage to the destroyed card's controller.
 
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Strange. This didn't show up in my New Posts. Good thing I checked this section. :D

Nope. While an Equip Spell Card the only thing Kiryu will retain is it's name. It is no longer a Dragon-Type.
 
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No one missed anything except Da Twiggy man, who missed that the question had already been answered...

Stamping Destruction's effect:

On Activation:
1) Activate Stamping Destruction and target a spell or trap card.

* Opponent may chain here *

On Resolution:
1) Staming Destruction will attemp to destroy the targeted card.
2) If it destroys the card successfully, then inflict 500 points of Direct Damage to the destroyed card's controller.
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...there. By the only person in the world who truly knows EVERYTHING about ygo.

-pssvr
 
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pssvr said:
No one missed anything except Da Twiggy man, who missed that the question had already been answered...


...there. By the only person in the world who truly knows EVERYTHING about ygo.

-pssvr
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Cant tell if that was supposed to be sarcastic or not...

But really... "attempts to destroy the targeted card"... at resolution????

If this card, which is a Normal Spell Card, still has a card to destroy at resolution, I can almost guarantee that the card will be destroyed 99.99% of the time by Stamping Destruction.
 
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Digital Jedi said:
Strange. This didn't show up in my New Posts. Good thing I checked this section. :D

Nope. While an Equip Spell Card the only thing Kiryu will retain is it's name. It is no longer a Dragon-Type.
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The only reason I ask is that the card Primal Seed still works even if Black Luster Soldier or Chaos Emperor Dragon are Equip Spell Cards. Wasn't sure if the same thing applied here. But then again, those cards state a name while Stamping Destruction just needs a dragon.
 
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Because it's almost as badly worded as the cards we complain here daily about.

"If the card targeted by Stamping Destruction is not destroyed by the effect of another Spell or Trap Card, then that card will have been destroyed by the effect of Stamping Destruction, and inflict 500 damage to the opponent."

If there is no card for it to destroy at resolution, then the effect Disappears.

Tkwiget said:
ROFL, Stamping Destruction has no cost involved...lol
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How do you figure there is no cost? If you dont destroy a card, you dont inflict damage. There is no "direct" payment, and it's not a "cost" as far as a Lightning Vortex type of effect. It's more a condition, if you want to put it more specifically.
 
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pssvr said:
Hence it attempts to destroy the card, and sometimes it cannot.

-pssvr
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Which I think I already explained about 5-6 post earlier...

If you need clarification, then ask. Dont discredit an answer that has already been given.
 
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