Card Rulings:Mystic Mine
OCG Rulings
- This card's effect that prevents your opponent from declaring attacks or activating monster effects does not start a Chain.[1]
- This card's effect that prevents you from declaring attacks or activating monster effects does not start a Chain.[1]
- This card's effect that destroys it during the End Phase starts a Chain. (It does not target.)[1]
- This effect activates once during each of your End Phases and each of your opponent's End Phases, when the number of monsters in your Monster Zone is the same as the number of monsters in your opponent's Monster Zone.[1]
Q&A Rulings
- Q: There are no monsters on my opponent's field, and "Loud Cloud the Storm Serpent" is face-up in my Monster Zone. If "Mystic Mine" is face-up in the Field Zone and its effect is applying, but the effect of "Forbidden Lance" was applied to my "Loud Cloud the Storm Serpent", can it attack or activate its effects?
- A: Each effect of "Mystic Mine" is applied to the corresponding player. In this scenario, its effect prevents you from declaring attacks or activating monster effects, so you cannot declare an attack with "Loud Cloud the Storm Serpent" or activate its effects even if it has been affected by "Forbidden Lance".[2]
- Q: "Mystic Mine" is face-up in the Field Zone, and there are no monsters on the field. In this situation, will the effect of "Mystic Mine" that destroys it activate during the End Phase?
- A: Even if there are no monsters on either side of the field, the number of monsters on each player's field is still the same, so the effect of "Mystic Mine" that destroys it will activate during the End Phase.[3][4]
- Q: A face-up "Mystic Mine" is in my opponent's Field Zone, a face-down Defense Position monster is in my Monster Zone, and a face-up Attack Position "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" that I Tribute Summoned to my opponent's field is in my opponent's Monster Zone. During my opponent's End Phase, what is the procedure involving "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" returning to its owner's control and the effect that destroys "Mystic Mine" activating?
- A: In this scenario, both "Mystic Mine" and "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" are controlled by your opponent, and your opponent is the turn player. In this case, your opponent can choose to either first activate the effect of "Mystic Mine" or to return "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" to its owner. (If "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" returns to your field first, the number of monsters on each side will no longer be equal, so the effect of "Mystic Mine" will not activate as a result.)[5]
