Card Rulings:Shining Silver Force

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TCG Rulings

• You can chain “Shining Silver Force” to a Trap Card your opponent activates that inflicts damage to themselves.

• If a Trap Card that normally gives Life Points has been changed to a damage card by “Bad Reaction to Simochi”, you can activate “Shining Silver Force”.

• You cannot chain “Shining Silver Force” to a card if you’re not sure it will inflict damage or not (like “The Paths of Destiny [sic]).

• You cannot chain “Shining Silver Force” to the activation of a card that does not inflict damage upon activation but will inflict damage in the future (like “Skull Invitation”).

• You cannot chain “Shining Silver Force” to a card that shifts battle damage, like “Dimension Wall”.

OCG Rulings

• The effect does not target.

• It can be activated even during the Damage Step.

• When a Trap Card that inflicts damage is activated, this card is activated directly in Chain to that activation.

• Resolving "Negate the activation of that card" and "destroy it and all face-up Spell/Trap Cards your opponent controls" are treated as being done at the same time.

• Whether or not "The Paths of Destiny" is a card that restores LP or inflicts damage is determined by a coin toss performed when the card resolves. "Shining Silver Force" cannot be activated in Chain to the activation of a Trap Card that may or may not inflict damage.

• "Shining Silver Force" can only be activated in Chain to a Trap Card that is activated and will inflict damage at resolution. Therefore, when "Skull Invitation" etc. is activated, which does not inflict damage when it resolves, "Shining Silver Force" cannot be activated.

• After "Skull Invitation" resolves, while it is face-up in the Spell & Trap Zone, the effect "Each time a card(s) is sent to the Graveyard, inflict 300 damage to its owner for each card sent" is applied. Since Skull Invitation does not inflict any damage when the activation of the card resolves, the card "Shining Silver Force" cannot be activated in Chain.