User:Deus Ex Machina/OCG Rulings/Basic Rules
- For effects that last during the "activation turn" - like "Exarion Universe", "Spirit Elimination", and "Reinforcements" - the effect ends during the End Phase. The player chooses when to end the effect, as per the rules of Priority.
188: [Basic Rules] Can Quick-Play Spell and Trap Card be activated in the Damage Step?
- During the Damage Step, you can activate "Sebek's Blessing", "Attack and Receive", "Numinous Healer", "Time Machine", "Michizure", Counter Trap Cards, and Trap/Quick-Play Spell Cards that increase/decrease ATK/DEF.
- When Fusion Summoning "Thousand-Eyes Restrict", you can use a "Relinquished" in your hand as a Fusion Material Monster. However, the "Relinquished" cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard by "Monster Reborn", etc.
- You can equip a Trap Card to an opponent's monster, but only if the Trap Card does not specify "your monster". So, you can equip "Metalmorph" to an opponent's monster because it does not specify otherwise, but you cannot equip "Blast with Chain" nor "Kunai with Chain" to an opponent's monster because these cards specify "your monster".
282: [Basic Rules] When activating a Trap Card, does that Trap Card remain on the field?
- Except for Continuous Trap Cards (Trap Cards which contain the "Continuous" icon), all Trap Cards are destroyed by game mechanics after activation. All Continuous Trap Cards cards released after April 20th 2000, starting with Magic Ruler, will contain this icon.
- Errata: Before Magic Ruler, Continuous Trap Cards did not contain the "Continuous" icon. The following cards (all of which released before Magic Ruler) do not have the icon, but are still Continuous Trap Cards and remain face-up on the field: "Ultimate Offering" (EX, B3), "Royal Decree" (B5), "Magical Thorn" (B6), "Robbin' Goblin" (V7), "Dragon Capture Jar" (EX, SB), and "Call of Darkness" (V5).
8751: Can a Gemini Monster be Normal Summoned if it already has its effect?
- If a Gemini Monster already has the effect listed by the "●", then you cannot Normal Summon it again.
8827: Please explain what is meant by "at the end of the Damage Step".
- "At the end of the Damage Step", as mentioned in the text of cards like "Legendary Jujitsu Master", occurs at the same time as "when the monster which is destroyed by battle is sent to the Graveyard". Or, if "Macro Cosmos" or "Banisher of the Radiance" is active, then this occurs at the same time as "when the monster which is destroyed by battle is removed from play".