Editing Trigger Effect

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	| kanji                = 誘発効果
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	| romaji               = Yūhatsu Kōka
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	| english              = Trigger Effect
	| french               = Effet Déclencheur
	| german               = Triggereffekt
	| italian              = Effetto Innescato
	| korean               = 유발 효과 (誘發效果) ''Yubal Hyogwa''
|chinese=誘發效果 ''Yòufā Xiàoguǒ / Jau5 faat3 Haau6 gwo2''
	| spanish              = Efecto Disparado
|portuguese=Efeito de Gatilho
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'''Trigger Effects''' (Japanese: 誘発効果 ''Yūhatsu Kōka'') are a type of [[card effect]] for [[Monster Card]]s that [[activate]] when a certain condition is met. [[Trigger-like Effect]]s are the parallel type of card effect for [[Spell Card|Spell]]/[[Trap Card]]s.

Trigger Effects are [[Spell Speed 1]] effects that make a [[Chain Link]] when activated. In general, Trigger Effects can be activated during any [[phase]], although many individual Trigger Effects have restrictions on the phases in which they can be activated as part of their activation timing. Trigger Effects can be [[mandatory effect|mandatory]] or [[Optional Monster Effect|optional]].

Trigger Effects activate only once each time their condition is met. For example, if you control "[[Solemn Wishes]]" and draw 2 cards at once, you will only gain 500 LP because you performed only one act of drawing cards; and if you control "[[Aromage Jasmine]]" and gain 1000 LP, you will draw 1 card (not 1000).

==Identifying Trigger Effects==
For cards with [[Problem-Solving Card Text]], Trigger Effects can be identified by looking for a timing or event-related condition, followed by a colon. For example, the text "''During the Standby Phase: You can...''" or "''If this card is destroyed by battle: You can...''" indicates that the effect is a Trigger Effect, as they identify a specific phase or event during which the effect activates.

Optional effects with the activation timing "''Once per turn: You can...''" or "''During your Main Phase: You can...''" are [[Ignition Effect]]s rather than Trigger Effects. Trigger Effects may use the phrase "once per turn" in their activation timing, but not on its own.

Effects with the phrase "''during either player's turn''" in their activation timing are [[Quick Effect]]s rather than Trigger Effects.

==Mechanics==
===Missing the timing===
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[[Optional Monster Effect|Optional]] Trigger Effects that use the word "when" in their activation timing can miss the timing. This occurs when a optional Trigger Effect that uses "when" meets its activation timing, but another action is performed before it has a chance to activate.

If an optional Trigger Effect that does not miss the timing or a mandatory Trigger Effect meets its activation timing at an instant that Spell Speed 1 effects cannot be activated, such as when a [[Chain]] already exists, then it will start a [[Chain]] at the next possible opportunity. "If" and "during" are commonly used in place of "when" for effects that cannot miss the timing.

For example, "[[Peten the Dark Clown]]" has a "when" optional Trigger Effect. When a monster is [[Tribute Summon]]ed using "[[Peten the Dark Clown]]" as [[Tribute]], first the Tribute "Peten the Dark Clown" is sent to the Graveyard, then a monster is Tribute Summoned. The effect of "Peten the Dark Clown" would have met its activation timing when it was sent to the Graveyard, but because a new monster was Summoned before its effect had a chance to activate, its effect cannot activate.

In contrast, "[[Mermail Abysshilde]]" has an "if" optional Trigger Effect and "[[Flowerbot]]" has a mandatory Trigger Effect. If "Mermail Abysshilde" or "Flowerbot" is Tributed for a Tribute Summon, its Trigger Effect can be activated.

===Simultaneous Effects Go On Chain===
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If multiple Trigger or Trigger-like Effects would activate at the same time, they are all be placed on the same [[Chain]] without any of them [[missing the timing]].

The order these effects are added to the Chain depends on whether the effect is [[mandatory effect|mandatory]] or [[Optional Monster Effect|optional]], whether it is activated by the [[turn player]] or non-turn player, and (in the ''TCG'' only) the order in which they met their activation timing.

==Example==
The effect of "Zaborg the Thunder Monarch" is a [[mandatory effect|mandatory]] Trigger Effect that activates when it is [[Tribute Summon]]ed. This effect [[target]]s 1 monster on the [[field]], then [[destroy]]s that target when it resolves.
<center>[[File:ZaborgtheThunderMonarch-BP01-EN-C-1E.png]]</center>

==List of TCG and OCG Monsters with Trigger Effects==	
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