tragdey of anubis
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"Tragedy" is very specific on its activation requirements. It very limited to where you can chain it. One example where you can chain it is when "Dream Clown" is changed from attack position to defense postion. "Dream Clown"'s effect will be chain link 1 and you can add "Tragedy" in chain link 2.
Extending this...
If you, during the other player's turn, play Curse of Anubis, and then resolve that chain, and then you wanted to activate Tragedy, you would have to give the turn player priority and so the turn player could actually do something else (like a normal summon) and thus possibly end up destroying your opportunity to use Tragedy. Is that correct?
If you, during the other player's turn, play Curse of Anubis, and then resolve that chain, and then you wanted to activate Tragedy, you would have to give the turn player priority and so the turn player could actually do something else (like a normal summon) and thus possibly end up destroying your opportunity to use Tragedy. Is that correct?
DaGuyWitBluGlasses
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JOls said:
No.
Any card that is activated in response to something can be activated late in the chain. No matter what your opponent activates you would be able to chain tragedy to that card, as long as there are still defense position monsters on the field.
Only cards that would remove all defense position mosnters at activation would prevent Tragedy from being activated.
You are correct about letting your opponent (the Turn Player) use his/her priority after the "Curse of Anubis" chain block resolves, but his/her priority is to start a new chain only, so he/she can't summon monsters yet, until both of you are done responding to the last chain block ("Curse of Anubis" chain block).
But even if he/she starts a new chain, you can still add your "Tragedy" in the chain, but risking not countering whats on chain link 1. Does this make sense?
But even if he/she starts a new chain, you can still add your "Tragedy" in the chain, but risking not countering whats on chain link 1. Does this make sense?
DaGuyWitBluGlasses said:
But not everything is chainable.
Say you had one monster on the field during the start of your main phase 1. Your opponent gives you priority to do something. Out of curiosity, you yield priority to them and they play curse of anubis (yeah, bad time to play it, but it'll illustrate the point). It resolves and your monster is now in defense position. So at that point, you have priority again. If you summoned a face up monster, the summon cannot be chained to. So now the last thing done was not a change of position, which is what Tragedy specifically says.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be defensive, or disagreeable, or anything. I'm trying to understand priority and chaining, so I'm throwing back a situation in which I think it would not be able to chain. Thanks for sharing your understanding on this.
chaosruler
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that's right, because summoning has no spell speed, so you can't chain to it or chain with it
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chaosruler said:
Whoa, I was with you until you said "chain to it".
No, Tragedy couldn't be played as a part of the chain including Curse. It has to be played after the resolution of that chain and start of a new chain. But turn player has priority for starting a new chain. So what I've arrived at this point is that turn player could not start the new chain with a summon because the opponent has not yet had a chance to respond to their own played curse of anubis's resolution.
Let me break this up into turn by turn, I think that'll illustrate it better.
Start of Main Phase 1
Turn Player activates effect of Deck Shuffle (or something like that, doesn't matter what at this point).
Opponent chains with Curse of Anubis.
neither chains anything further. Chain is resolved, monsters are switched to defense position.
turn player now has priority again, over the other player's chance to play Tragedy. I'm guessing that the other player has already stated "I'm going to play a trap, but you have priority" or something like that. I don't know. Turn player doesn't want to play any spell or trap cards, he wants to summon a monster. But he can't do that yet because opponent gets a chance to respond (not chain to) the prior chain that just resolved?
It's still a little confusing to me. But I'm fairly new to this priority thing.
JOIs, got it right. But If I was the one about to play "Tragedy" I would have just said, "do you wish to respond to "Curse of Anubis"? I wouldn't say I am planning to respond with a Trap, though if your opponent is smart, he would figure out that you are planning something, but still, I wont give my plan away 
and here, I've been telling my opponent "That's ok, because after you summon on your next monster, I'm going to flip over this dark hole in spell slot #3 during my turn and then summon on this or that and destroy you." Guess I shouldn't do that.Raigekick said:JOIs, got it right. But If I was the one about to play "Tragedy" I would have just said, "do you wish to respond to "Curse of Anubis"? I wouldn't say I am planning to respond with a Trap, though if your opponent is smart, he would figure out that you are planning something, but still, I wont give my plan away
*LOL*What if, starting main phase 1, the first thing the turn player wants to do is summon a Royal Magical Library, and the opponent has already indicated "I'm going to play a spell or trap, but you have priority first". Would the turn player have priority to summon RML, or would he have to wait until the other player plays the Curse knowing he could play any spell or trap cards before, but apparently cannot summon before. I hope this isn't getting too confusing. Is there any good articles on both types of priority?