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Are SQD and SSD's effect mean they can attack that many times, or like if you use an effect to let it attack multiple times, that's the maximum number of times it can attack?

That is the maximum number of attacks it has.

 

If SSD reveals no tuners with it's effect, it's max number of attacks is 0.

If SQD was summoned without using non-tuners somehow, it's max number of attacks is 0.

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The maximum number of times an effect is bestowed is the absolute maximum. No effects can stack in this fashion, unless it gives a higher maximum.

 

Cards that permit one additional Normal Summon, for example, means you can only Normal Summon a maximum of one additional time that turn, even if you have another effects that give you another Normal Summon, because they only give you a maximum of 1 more Summon.

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Sangan activates even if it's not a monster, so long as it was sent from the Field to the Graveyard. The same is true of Tengu.

 

Xyz Material are not considered to be on the Field, so it doesn't activate when detached. Cards that activate regardless of where they're sent from, such as Dandylion or White Stone of Legend, will still activate.

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If "Skill Drain" is on the field, and you Summon "Malefic Cyber End Dragon", and play "Safe Zone" on Mali Cyber end, but Skill Drain is somehow destroyed, does Mali Cyber end stay?

 

And second, if I summon "Beast King Barbaros" and chain "Skill Drain", or play it at all, and then Skill Drain's removed from the field, despite the fact that I Summoned Barbaros with no tributes, does Barbaros' stats stay @ 3000, or do they go back to 1900?

 

Sending is an effect. They will be banished.

 

Really? That's awesome.

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If "Skill Drain" is on the field, and you Summon "Malefic Cyber End Dragon", and play "Safe Zone" on Mali Cyber end, but Skill Drain is somehow destroyed, does Mali Cyber end stay?

 

And second, if I summon "Beast King Barbaros" and chain "Skill Drain", or play it at all, and then Skill Drain's removed from the field, despite the fact that I Summoned Barbaros with no tributes, does Barbaros' stats stay @ 3000, or do they go back to 1900?

 

1) No. Safe Zone protects from opposing targeting effects and being destroyed by opponent effects. Malefic Cyber End's own effect is causing it to self-destruct, so it is not protected by Safe Zone in that case, as it's your effect.

 

Theoretically, Safe Zone WOULD protect an opponent's Sin Cyber End from self-destructing once Skill Drain/Field Spell vanished, though.

 

2) It stays at 3000, so long as Skill Drain had successfully resolved.

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Rain Storm. Can you reduce a Cloudian's ATK below 0 for its effect?

 

i.e. is its second effect always available or not?

 

A monster's ATK can never go below 0.

 

Hmm...that's a tough one. There aren't really any rulings on this card.

 

My personal ruling judgment then is you cannot use this card on a Cloudian whose ATK is less than 1000. You choose how much to decrease at resolution, and if you cannot decrease it by 2000, you cannot use the second effect. Similarly, if you cannot decrease by 1000, the effect can't be used.

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Rain Storm. Can you reduce a Cloudian's ATK below 0 for its effect?

 

i.e. is its second effect always available or not?

 

No, you cannot activate either effect unless the Cloudian has at least 1000 or 2000 ATK to be reduced. If effects are chained that reduce their ATK, if its still possible to perform the 1000 ATK effect, you must perform it, or the effect fails if its less than that.

 

General math can always be done to a card's ATK. Increasing, Decreasing (even if it would set them to below 0, even if they're already at 0), Halving and Doubling (even at 0) can always be performed. Cards that set a monster's current attack values to a certain value may be used even if the card already has that current attack. "Alchemy Cycle" may not be used if the only monsters you control have an Original ATK of 0 already, though may be used if their current ATK is 0 by other means (provided the Original ATK is still not 0).

 

This card on the other hand uses this reduction as a condition for an effect and therefore must have sufficient ATK/DEF to remove. Cards like LaDD, Darklord Desire, and Dark/Light End Dragon do these things already. LaDD should probably be switched around to say it "loses 500 ATK/DEF and the effect's activation is negated" in that order though. The Japanese card has the "loses 500 ATK/DEF" at the end as well so I suppose I can't say anything about it, though it would just make sense the other way.

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