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Activate
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To activate (Japanese:
To activate an effect is to declare that you want to apply it. This goes for Flip, Trigger, Ignition and Quick Effect of Effect Monsters and also for Trigger-like, Ignition-like or Quick-like Effect of Spell/Trap Cards. Effects can be activated not just when the card is face-up on the field, but also in the hand, Graveyard, Banished Zone, Main and Extra Deck, depending on what the card says.
Note that "activating a card" is different from "activating the effect of a card." For example, some effects - like "Magic Jammer" and "Skilled Dark Magician" - only apply when a Spell Card is activated, but do not apply when the "effect" of a Spell Card is activated.
Any activated card or effect must have a Spell Speed. You cannot activate a card effect which has lower Spell Speed than the effect on the Chain Link before it. Effects which do not have Spell Speeds are never activated; and never start any Chain Link.
You cannot activate a card effect that its condition didn't meet, knowing that it cannot resolve properly. For example, you cannot activate "Lightning Vortex" knowing that your opponent controls no face-up monsters to destroy.
You cannot activate a card effect in the middle of the resolution of another activated card effect, or during an action that did not finish yet. Only cards like "Bait Doll" can make that permissible to its targets.
If the activation of a card is negated, that card will not treated as being on the field.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Konami FAQ: Does placing a Pendulum Monster in a Pendulum Zone start a chain?
- ↑ Card Rulings:Meklord Fortress: If the activation of this card is negated, you will be unable to add 1 “Meklord Emperor” monster to your hand.