Wednesday, April 25, 2012

EMERGENCY POST: Ignition Effect Priority TCG ONLY

First off let me direct you here: http://www.yugioh-card.com/en/gameplay/fasteffects_timing.html

Now for the post... This change to the game is massive and makes the life of a judge so much easier with the nice little perfect flowchart. First off Ignition Effects such as Chaos Sorcerer now must wait until the window is "Open" to activate their effects. Meaning if you summon a monster or make an action the window is no longer "Open".

This means that because the window is not "Open" your opponent can actually activate and resolve an effect to destroy or otherwise affect your monster before you get the chance to activate the effect (Only for Ignition Effects).

Trigger Effects are unaffected by this change due simply to how chains work.

This change in laymans terms:
Summon Zenmaity... Bottomless... GG...
Summon Rabbit... Chain Disappearance GG...
Summon Stratos... Bottomless... Gets effect anyway.
Summon Dragonfly... Trap Hole... doesn't get to equip Hornet loses Dragonfly...

Summons Atums on Saturday/Sunday... Hieratic Seal of Banishment before he can use the effect...

REDMD gets Bottomlessed before it can activate...

BLS - EOTB gets Raigeki Breaked before it can activate...

In long term this change means... Summon Alius... set 1 go... Summon Rabbit... Gemini Spark... GG (Now your only defense being Super Poly has changed...

This game will change majorly from this and Rabbit takes a rather big hit without killing them... meaning they won't be as broken as before. Still broken when they aren't stopped but not omnipotent. No longer needs many banlist hits to it either. Inzektors can possibly be a problem though later on.

To think we've been in this ruling quagmire since Exiled Force became a major card... (It was one of the earliest cards that could tribute itself as a cost after all).

If any of my information isn't consistent with the link above sorry. Anyway please get all your friends and everyone you know to read that link fully.

5 comments:

  1. So does this make warning less useful? If I'm understanding this right, wouldn't bottomless be better than warning under this new ruling?

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    1. You aren't incorrect but its not quite cut and dry. Warning is now not a staple in everything that is all that changed. Bottomless can't hit all the things Warning can. It just depends on what you are running and expect to play against.

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  2. So can veiler stop rabbit now?

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    1. yes if you veiler when they summon the rabbit and not after they activate the effect.

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