Conjunctions
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Monster Noh-P.U.N.K. Foxy Tune:
"You can send this card from your hand or field to the GY; send 1 card from your hand to the GY, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "P.U.N.K." monster from your Deck, except a Level 8 monster."
If you become unable to Special Summon a P.U.N.K. from your Deck, do you still send 1 card from your hand to the GY?
Yes, and if you do effects do not require the second effect to allow the first. B relies on A, A doesn't rely on B.
Remove From Play
Banish
(Changed May 2011)
Which of the 3 types of activated effects can be activated only during your turn?
A. Ignition
B. Quick
C. Trigger
A. Ignition
Ignition effect are defined as effects manually activated by the turn player in their Main Phase(s).
YES/NO
If you attempt to play the Spell Card Bonfire and your opponent negates the activation through the effect F.A. Dawn Dragster. If you had a 2nd Bonfire in your hand, could you activate another Bonfire?
Yes, Bonfire can only be activated once per turn. Since the activation got negated, you may activate bonfire once more.
Read the following effect of the Monster Des Volstgalph:
"Each time a Normal or Quick-Play Spell Card resolves, this card gains 200 ATK until the end of this turn."
If Des Volstgalph is battling and Rush Recklessly is activated targeting it during the Damage Step, what happens to its ATK?
It would have 3100 ATK for that battle
In this scenario, Rush Recklessly will increase Des Volstgalph's ATK by 700, and its resolution will cause Des Volstgalph to gain 200 ATK by its own effect, for a total of 2200 + 700 + 200 = 3100.
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Field Spell Sangen Summoning:
"During your Main Phase: You can add 1 "Tenpai Dragon" monster from your Deck to your hand, then discard 1 card."
If you are unable to add a "Tenpai Dragon" from your deck to your hand, do you still discard a card?
No, then effects require the first effect to allow the second. B relies on A, A doesn't rely on B.
Select
Target
(Changed May 2011)
There are 2 words that create the distinction between Mandatory Effects and Optional Effects, what are those 2 words?
You can
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Monster Prank-Kid Lampsies:
"If this card is sent to the GY as material for the Fusion or Link Summon of a "Prank-Kids" monster: You can inflict 500 damage to your opponent, then you can Special Summon 1 "Prank-Kids" monster from your hand or Deck in Defense Position, except "Prank-Kids Lampsies"."
If you have activated the card Dark Ruler No More earlier this turn, could you apply the effect to burn your opponent? If yes/no, could you then Summon a Prank-Kid monster from hand or Deck?
No you cannot burn and no you cannot Summon a Prank-Kid monster. You cannot burn because your opponent can't take damage and you cannot Summon because then effects require the first effect for the second effect.
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Ritual Monster Evigishki Merrowgeist:
"After damage calculation, if this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; shuffle the destroyed monster into the Deck instead of sending it to the Graveyard."
Can the effect of Evigishki Merrowgeist be activated when it destroys a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link Monster by battle?
Yes, it can. It's shuffled into the Extra Deck instead.
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Xyz Monster Number 53: Heart-eartH:
"When this card on the field is destroyed by a card effect while it has no Xyz Materials: You can Special Summon 1 "Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon" from your Extra Deck and attach this card from the Graveyard to it as an Xyz Material."
If you attempt to Special Summon Number 92: Heart-eartH Dragon this way, but are unable to attach Number 53: Heart-eartH as material, can you still summon Heart-eartH Dragon?
No, and effects require both parts of the effect be successful. A needs B and B needs A.
During either player's turn
(Quick Effect)
(Changed June 2017)
Trigger Effects, like Quick Effects, can meet their activation requirement during your opponent's turn. However, they usually don't say (Quick Effect) or During either player's turn. They typically start with one of two different words. Which are they?
(Hint: 1 can miss timing)
If or When
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Continuous Spell Fortissimo:
"You can send this card to the Graveyard; Fusion Summon 1 "Melodious" Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters you control as Fusion Materials."
If you were to activate this card's effect under the effect of Imperial Order, would you be able to resolve this card's effect due to the fact this it sends itself to GY for cost?
No, because you activate and resolve effects in the same location
Read the following effect of the Field Spell Temple of the Mind's Eye:
"Any battle damage a player takes becomes 1000."
If you attack your opponent's monster with a 3000 ATK stat with your monster that has 1500 ATK, but your monster has the effect "Your opponent takes any battle damage you would have taken from battles involving this card instead." How much damage would be applied and to who?
1000 damage to your opponent
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Monster Big Winged Berformet:
"If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 Level 4 Beast monster and/or 1 "Chimera Fusion" from your Deck to your hand, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Fusion Monsters."
If you are unsuccessful in adding a beast and/or Chimera Fusion from your Deck, are you still extra deck locked into Fusion monsters?
Yes, also effects are independent, meaning A doesn't need B and B doesn't need A.
If your opponent controls a monster and you control no monsters
If only your opponent controls a monster
(Changed July 2017)
If these 4 effects all activate in the same chain link:
Mandatory your effect, Optional your opponent's effect, Optional your effect and Mandatory your opponent's effect.
Which order would they chain together according to SEGOC?
Mandatory You->Mandatory Opponent->Optional You->Optional Opponent
SEGOC stands for Simultaneous Effects Go On Chain
If you control the Field Spell Floowandereeze and the Magnificent Map. You attempt to activate the effect of Magnificent Map to "During your Main Phase: You can reveal 1 Level 1 "Floowandereeze" monster in your hand and banish 1 "Floowandereeze" card with a different name from your Deck, then, immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon the revealed monster." Which of the following monsters would be able to negate the effect of Magnificent Map?
A) Legendary Six Samurai Shi-En
B) Adamancipator Risen - Dragite
C) Spright Carrot
Both B) Dragite and C) Carrot
Shi-En wouldn't be able to due to the fact that it says "when your opponent activates a Spell/Trap Card." instead of "When your opponent activates a Spell/Trap Card or effect."
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Xyz Monster Number S39: Utopia the Lightning:
"If this card battles, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step."
If Utopia the Lightning attacks and destroys a monster that Special Summons a monster from your Deck if it is destroyed by battle, would it be able to activate and resolve that effect?
No, the effect that Special Summons a monster from the Deck would activate at the end of the Damage Step, so in this case that effect cannot be activated.
Read the following effect of the Monster Goblinberg:
"When this card is Normal Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your hand, also, after that, change this card to Defense Position."
Also, after that, is a conjunction that works similarly to also, however there is one key difference, what is it?
Also effects are simultaneous while also, after that effects are sequential.
Pick Up
Excavate
(Changed January 2014)
Which of these scenarios leads to the activation of a Trigger Effect?
A) Using Cosmic Cyclone on Abominable Chamber of the Unchained
B) Shaddoll Construct attacking a Special Summoned Machina Fortress
C) Ballista Squad tributing a Sangan and it goes to GY
D) Using Raigeki to destroy a Necroface
C) Ballista Squad tributing a Sangan and it goes to GY
Sangan effect:
If this card is sent from the field to the GY: Add 1 monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck to your hand
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Equip Spell Wonder Wand:
Will the effect of Wonder Wand be negated if it is activated in the same column a previously Set Infinite Impermanence successfully resolved?
Yes, it will be negated. In the given situation, Wonder Wand itself is sent to the Graveyard as a cost to activate its effect, but the effect was activated in the same column as the previously resolved Infinite Impermanence, so that effect will be negated.
YES/NO
Read the following effect of the Monster Mighty Warrior:
"If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to half the destroyed monster's original ATK."
If this card destroys your opponent's Conquistador of the Golden Land by battle, would any damage be inflicted to your opponent by Mighty Warrior's effect and if so, how much?
Yes, and 250 damage
Even if Mighty Warrior destroys Conquistador by battle, its effect will still be activated and inflict damage to your opponent.
Traps treated as monsters DO have original attack as long as they are treated as monsters on the field.