So, this is the end, you've read the many different parts there are to a duel that not mentioned in the rule book and have decided to take up the mantel of becoming a duelist. Well its time to address the elephant in the room and discuss a few things that weren't covered in the past blogs. We can start with effect costs and effect activation.
So what's the significance between these two, and what happens when a card effect is negated does cost still occur?
Long story short cost comes first BEFORE effect activation, in order to be able to activate an effect the player must first pay the cost of the card. A card effect can be negated but the COST will NOT be negated because card cost and card effect are separate from each other. Lets look at an example:
Lilith decrees that you can tribute a dark monster in order to search for a trap, we can tell that this is cost because it is written before a SEMI-COLON a semi colon precedes a card effect cost. A COMMA precedes a part of a card effect so its NOT a card cost.
So lets say the opponent would want to negate the effect of Lilith with a hand trap. In most cases this would not work lets see why.
I summon Lilith in attack mode and as soon as I do the opponent reveals that they have a effect veiler
This card says that it negates a cards effects of a monster that is face up on the field. While this would work on a regular monster Lilith can still attempt to activate its effect by tributing itself since its cost is not part of the actual effect. Liliths effect now resolves in the graveyard since its no longer a face up card on the field.
A big misunderstanding about card effects which goes as long as time I remember I even used to do was that younger players believed that they could destroy cards and by this they would negate card effects, but this is not true cards have to state whether or not they are actually negating a card effect. That said MST negate is not a real thing, and that marks the end of this tutorial of Yu-Gi-Ohs underground rules about how to play the game with rules that are not specified in the game.
Yu-Gi-Oh is a everchanging game and even though there are times when there are cards that are just too good for the game I will always love this game because it is a big part of my childhood. Part of me is like dang I know more about this game than I would think I do, I should open up a dueling school haha. anyways this is it for dueling tutorials if you have any more things you are curious about in this vast world of YGO please ask it in the comment section I will answer them as they come.
The biggest advice I have for people that are starting with this is READ YOUR CARDS this helps make the game a little easier.
On the next blog we will finally discuss Master Duel techs.
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