Does banishing count as destroying?

Banished cards cannot be destroyed. Returning a banished card to the Graveyard is not considered to be sending that card to the Graveyard, and can be done even if a card like “Dimensional Fissure” is active.

When can you activate continuous trap cards?

They can be activated during either player’s turn as long as it wasn’t set that turn. The effects of certain Normal Trap Cards behave like Equip Cards, but the card is still considered a Normal Trap Card. Continuous Trap Cards are also Spell Speed 2. Their effects are applied as long as they are face-up on the field.

Can you activate quick effect during opponent’s turn?

Fast effects can be activated by either player – even during their opponent’s turn, as long as the conditions are appropriate.

Does banishing count as targeting?

If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can Special Summon 1 “World Chalice” monster from your hand. If it can’t be targeted then it can’t be targeted. Whether the card effect banishes has no relevance at all. Cosmic Cyclone and Dimensional Prison both target for their effects, so they cannot be used.

Can you banish cards whenever you want?

Card can be banished from anywhere, be it your field, your hand, your graveyard (your discard pile), or your deck. Cards may be banished facedown if a card tells you to do so. The graveyard is a player’s discard pile, banish means to remove a card from the game, while vortex means any card with vortex in it’s name.

How do I get my banished card back?

When this card is destroyed and sent from your side of the field to your Graveyard, you can select 1 of your removed from play monsters and return it to your hand.

Is negating an attack targeting?

Negate Attack does target. To my understanding, no counter-trap is considered a targetting effect because it must be chained to the action its countering.

Does Mirror Force stop the attack?

Mirror Force activates at the declaration of an attack. While the attack isn’t negated, it doesn’t go through given that the attacking monster would be destroyed. The exception would be if the attacking monster cannot be destroyed by card effects because of either its effect or the effect of something else in play.

Can you negate counter traps?

Nope. In order for you to chain an effect, the spell speed must be equal to or greater than the card you’re trying to respond to. Monster effects can only be Spell Speed 1 or 2, while Spell Speed 3 is populated entirely by counter trap cards.

Can you chain a counter trap to a counter trap?

Only Counter Traps may be chained to Counter Traps. Furthermore, there can only be one chain in response to the attack, although your opponent is allowed to activate a card or effect in a different chain during the same Battle Step (but not a card or effect that must be activated in response to an attack).

How do you counter trap cards?

“Wiretap” is one of the most basic Counter Trap Cards out there. When the opponent activates a Trap Card, “Wiretap” will negate it and shuffle it back into the Deck. While its activation is limited to exclusively other Trap Cards, “Wiretap’s” ability to negate Trap Cards with no downside is not to be undervalued.

Can you activate counter traps the turn they are set?

You cannot activate a Trap in the same turn that you Set it, but you can activate it at any time after that—starting from the beginning of the next turn. Normal Trap Cards have single-use effects and once their effects are resolved, they will be sent to the Graveyard, just like Normal Spell Cards.

Can Endymion negate counter traps?

An “Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic” in the Pendulum Zone is not a card that you can place Spell Counters on. This card’s monster effect that negates the activation of a Spell/Trap or Spell/Trap effect is a Quick Effect. (It does not target.

Can you activate a monster’s effect during your opponent’s turn?

The only monsters you can activate in your opponent turn are the Quick Effects, and the most of times, the card says “This effect can be activated during either player’s turn”.

What happens when you negate the activation of a continuous trap?

If it says “Negate the Activation”, it means, negate the card when it’s first placed face-up onto the field. In general, Continuous Trap Cards have Continuous-like effect that don’t activate.

Can you activate continuous trap cards?

Yes, continues trap cards effects can be activated in both players turn unless stated otherwise but keep in mind that if your opponent destroys the card after you activate the effect then the effect will not resolve.

Can you negate a continuous monster effect?

Since these effects don’t start a Chain, they do not interact with effects that negate activations. However, they can still be negated by other card effects that negate monster effects that don’t needing to respond to an activation, such as “Skill Drain”, “Effect Veiler”, “Junk Synchron”, etc.

Does heavy storm negate?

Even though the effect of “Heavy Storm” is negated, the activation was not, so the card will still resolve without effect and you will miss the timing to activate “Torrential Tribute.”

Does heavy storm destroy pendulum cards?

Twin Twisters/Heavy Storm Duster These guys offer arguably the best spell/trap removals in the game. Both destroy up to two spells/traps, letting them remove pendulum scales, field spells, or anything else in the spell/trap zone.

Does heavy storm destroy equip cards?

An “Equip Card” is any card that is equipped to a face-up monster on the field. They are treated as both Spell Cards (They would be destroyed by the effect of “Heavy Storm”) and Equip Cards (for purposes such as “Gearfried the Swordmaster”.)

Does MST stop heavy storm?

MST doesn’t negate, it destroys. Non continuous spells leave the field whether you hit them with MST or not.

Does MST negate continuous spells?

OKAY LOOK. pretty much what everyone’s trying to say is that MST will only negate continuous or spells or traps and field spells. MST doesn’t negate a spell or trap that leaves the field after its effect resolves.