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: [[Null and Void]] says "''Activate only '''when''' an effect of drawing card(s) is activated.''", but can be activated in the Damage Step, due to rulings.
: Like I said above, this is not a [[Miss the Timing|Timing]] issue, this is an issue on whether a card [[Damage Step|can or cannot be activated in the Damage Step]]. <span style="font-family: Monotype Corsiva">-[[User:Falzar FZ|Falzar FZ]]- ([[User talk:Falzar FZ#top|talk page]]|[[User:Falzar FZ/Tips and Guides|useful stuff]])</span> 02:32, July 24, 2011 (UTC)
The rulings of Snake Whistle say you can't activate the card during the damage step. Null and Void can be activated in the damage step but only if no other effect happens after the cards are drawn. Cards that are destroyed or sent to the graveyard or are removed from the field have differiating effects depending on what the lore and the rulings say. The effects of cards like Null and Void can be activated during the damage step but only if no other effect occurs after this occurs. Effects that say "if" or "after" can be activated at anytime when the conditions occur. (such as Elemental Hero Darkbright's effect)
: If the lore says that the effect can activate only when it is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard or destroyed and sent to the graveyard then you can activate it in the Damage step, but only if no other effect comes after this happens. (Hero Signal and Water Dragon both have effects like that)
: If the lore says that the effect can activate only when it is removed from the field, you can activate it in the damage step as long as there is no effect that comes after the card is removed from the field. You can activate the effect if the effect returns the card to your hand but not if the effect returns the card to the deck since you have to shuffle your deck if a card goes back to the deck. Fusion Monsters and Synchro Monsters do not count on the above sentence since they go back to the Extra Deck which can't be shuffled. (Mokey Mokey King and Yubel - Terror Incarnate have effects like that)
: If the lore says that effect can activate only when it is destroyed, then you can only activate it if a card effect destroyed a card and nothing else (like battle damage or other effects) happens after that. Cards that say that can't be activated during the damage step. (Snake Whistle and Rise of the Snake Deity have that effect)
: If the lore says that effect can activate only when it is sent to the graveyard then it activates only when it is discarded from your hand or destroyed by either battle or card effect and no other effect happens after that Cards that have this effect can be activated during the damage step. (Peten the Dark Clown has that effect)
This should be enough to tell you which cards can be activated in the Damage Step and which can't. If not then you can check the rulings of the cards I mention here. [[User:Cardsknower|Cardsknower]] ([[User talk:Cardsknower|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Cardsknower|contribs]]) 03:23, July 24, 2011 (UTC)Cardsknower