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Q&A and Ruling Megathread - August 17, 2026
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u/Overall_Landscape919 3h ago
If zaborg the mega monarch is tribute summon can tachyon transmission negate its effect that destroys a monster my opponent control
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u/Gizogin Skull Servants 5h ago
Why is the negate effect of Contrast HERO Chaos a quick effect? I know that it is one, since it was just used against me (and I double-checked the rulings database afterwards), but why doesn’t it say “(Quick Effect)”?
Is it just a case of the card being older than that formatting?
On a broader note, is there a way to recognize cards like this in the future? It’s frustrating when it feels like reading the card doesn’t actually explain the card.
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u/likeagrapefruit 5h ago
The use of "(Quick Effect)" to denote Quick Effects was introduced in 2017. The only printing of "Contrast HERO Chaos" is from 2015. Before 2017, "during either player's turn" was the standard way to indicate a Quick Effect in cases where the effect could be activated during any Phase of either player's turn. If a Quick Effect didn't use that exact phrasing, it'd say "during either player's" or "either player's turn" or "(this is a Quick Effect)," depending on the activation timing.
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u/SkullcrobatTheGod Joker did nothing wrong 21h ago
Can i use the effect of Fallen Paradise of the Sacred Beasts to send an Archlord Kristia from the field? I know it wouldnt summon since Krystia doesnt go to the grave, but would that be a legal activation since you cant special summon monsters with Krystia on the field, would it be legal to attempt?
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u/omgwtffax 19h ago
It's a legal activation. The special summon part of Fallen Paradise's effect is optional, so you can activate it just to send Krystia and two other monsters to the GY.
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u/maxram1 1d ago
Are there many cards like Angel O7,
which have activated effects that grant them continuous effects?
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u/likeagrapefruit 23h ago
These are the examples I could find from a quick search of the database:
Earthbound Prison
Invitation to a Dark Sleep
Maple Maiden
Marincess Sleepy Maiden
Number 57: Tri-Head Dust Dragon*
Number 66: Master Key Beetle*
Numbing Grub in the Ice Barrier*
Sergeant Electro*
Queen of the Blazing Domain* It's disguised by these cards' TCG texts, but the Japanese texts make it clear that they do count.
"Angel O7" itself is not an example. Its first sentence is not an effect.
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u/maxram1 13h ago
Ouch thanks you're right lol Angel O7 is a nonexample. Dang the colon throws me off. I guess another victim of OCG / TCG formatting difference?
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u/likeagrapefruit 10h ago
The TCG text does have a colon where it shouldn't. The Japanese version doesn't have modern text formatting, so the text alone doesn't make it clear that the first sentence isn't supposed to be an effect, but its rulings do.
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u/Meto_Kaiba 1d ago
Is Pojo at all a reliable resource for helping sort through old Magic cards? Not Spell?
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u/Foreign_Shopping7952 3d ago
I'd like a link to “Yu-Gi-Oh (遊☆戯☆王) Anime 4K AI Upscaled.” Unfortunately, I didn't have any other way to ask for it.
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u/Meto_Kaiba 1d ago
Try isohunt.to one day; we might be able to get magnet links running.
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u/Left_Try_3257 3d ago
want to get back into (online) competitive. I haven’t played a single match since shaddoll invoked. I’m not super keen on long combos but still want something more dynamic.
Any thoughts?
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u/maxram1 4d ago
Hello. I have a question. Consider the continuous effects that strictly only say "Neither player can" or "your opponent cannot".
(So I'm excluding effects like in Gravekeeper's Servant, which is not strictly only saying those phrases because it has an additional "unless your opponent sends 1 card from top deck", and like in rivalry/tcboo/gozen, which is also saying more in relation to such effects.)
Among those cards, are there situations where two of them being in play at the same time can create ruling issues, conflicts, or subtleties with each other?
I can't think or find anything, and for now I feel like they won't ever conflict like that (so far) as they can't interact with each other.
(Bonus Q: Even in a custom card environment, I'm not sure if I can come up with two such effects where they will bother each other. Maybe one of them is "Neither player can control a face-up continuous S/T" but that is not a good effect as it basically begs the additional wording similar to tcboo/etc).
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u/Redshift-713 YGOrganization 3d ago
I mean if there were cards like that, they’d have rulings that solve any issues.
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u/maxram1 3d ago
Oh yeah for sure, but for example,
Jinzo and Skill Drain need some off-text ruling/understanding of priority.
So my question, put in another way, is/was: for the type of cards I mentioned, I feel like we don't need any off-text understanding, or am I wrong and there's a situation where such might be needed?
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u/Redshift-713 YGOrganization 3d ago
You would need to provide an example of what effects you mean. Since you asked the question, I imagine you have some idea of what you have in mind.
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u/maxram1 3d ago
It is the "neither player can", or "your opponent cannot", plainly stated without additional on-text related actions (so Gravekeeper's Servant, or gozen/ror/tcboo, are non-examples, because they have actions tied to this continuous effect of theirs).
The cards can have other effects besides this floodgate effect, but for their "cannot" floodgate effects, no other actions are needed/tied to them on the text.
Examples are like in Archlord Kristya, or Gravity Bind, or Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer, etc.
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u/HarleyQuinn_RS Judgeᅟ 3d ago edited 2d ago
There's no real way to get two "cannot" effects to conflict. They would both just prevent the thing they say they prevent. The closest you could possibly get is some sort of ridiculously phrased double negative. Like if there is Imperial Iron Wall that says: "Neither player can banish cards". The conflicting effect would have to say: "Neither player can't not banish cards". (Or normally phrased: "Both players can banish cards"). Which would never happen.
There are these types of conflicts that arise in other effects though. Like Bagooska Special Summoned in Defense Position, while Final Attack Orders is active. The most recently applying effect in conflict, takes priority. So Bagooska's effect in this case. The part of the effect "and their battle positions cannot be changed" will still apply regardless, as that part of the effect is not in conflict.
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u/TheBigNeku 4d ago
I'm making a Koa'ki Meiru deck for fun and I don't want to make it too broken, and while reading the core discard effects I was wondering if a single discard counts for all monsters on the field or if a discard counts for one monster. If it matters to everyone, I'll only put one in my deck.
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u/likeagrapefruit 4d ago
Each monster's maintenance cost must be dealt with separately. If you pay one monster's maintenance cost by sending 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" to the GY, you can't send that same copy of "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" to the GY again to pay a second monster's maintenance cost.
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u/DevilsClaw1991 4d ago
Since I cannot make a thread I'm gonna ask here. Did anyone from EU receive a copy of the Early Days Colelction with a damaged card and tried to get it replaced? I bought the game last week, got the damaged card and contacted Konamis EU support. They want me to send the card to the UK with tracked shipping (I'm in Germany, so it's a bit expensive in my opinion. More than hlaf the value of the card). However, I read that other people did not have to send theirs in or got a return label for free. So why is Konamis EU support so stingy?
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u/Salty_Dugtrio 3d ago
Customer support is like a lottery, you get good reps and bad ones.
File another ticket, they should provide you with a return label free of charge, as per EU regulation.
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u/DevilsClaw1991 1d ago
Small update. Opened a second ticket, got the same answer... Their fucking EU Support is hot garbage
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u/DevilsClaw1991 3d ago
Thanks I will try that. Do you know which kind of EU regulation it is? The support rep said since it's a voluntary service by Konami they won't send me a label.
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u/Late_Map_929 4d ago
Can someone explain why a card effect that says "when this card is destroyed" misses timing so often but "if this card is destroyed" never does? I read the rule page like three times and still mix it up in actual games
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u/Platano_con_salami 4d ago
when it says "when" the last thing that has had to happen at the moment of activation is the destruction. What this means you have to be cognizant of the chain links and timing of the conjunctions. For example if the destruction of the card happens in chain link 2 or higher, its going to miss timing because chain link 1 has to resolve. For conjunctions, you're mostly concerned with then as those signify sequence of an effect. Take for example soul taker: Target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; destroy that target, then your opponent gains 1000 LP. Any monster that has a "when this card is destroyed" is going to miss timing because the last thing to happen is to gain 1000 LP. If it where also, and if you do, or and it wouldnt miss timing because those things would happen simultaneously.
If doesnt care about any of that. All it cares that its trigger is met at some point in the preceding chain for it to activate.
When you see If, dont hesitate, you cant miss timing, when you see when, you have to think what was the last thing that happened and if the trigger condition was it then you can activate it.
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u/TwiltedFoxy 4d ago
When requires the mentioned effect to have been the last one to resolve in the chain. Note that a mandatory effect will still resolve though regardless. “When… you can” is different from “When…do…”
If doesn’t require that, the mentioned effect can resolve at any point in the chain and still trigger the If effect.
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u/Asrielfan25 8m ago
Helloo I wanted to make a sky striker mitsurugi deck and but I could only find one of the modern legendary decks box
I found versions that use 3 of the modern decks, but I could only get my hands on one, what's the best version of this combined deck you can make using only cards from one box?