Forum:Burgesstoma Anomalocaris negated a just flipped & activated Moist Winds?

I was playing on YGOPRO against a person playing burgesstomas. During the duel I activated my set Moist winds and went for the gain 500lp effect. I was expecting it to probably be eventually destroyed but I didn't care because I wanted the LP gain. In every other case I've seen the card destroyed but I still get it's effects to activate.

Except in this duel when I activated it, then the opponent's Burgesstoma Anomalocaris chained it's destroy 1 card effect (with a burgesstoma trap in the graveyard effect activating in between). When all the chains resolved I didn't gain any LP and was confused. Not sure if this is a bug with YGOPRO or something else?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Shizentek (talk • contribs) 20:22, January 10, 2016 (UTC)

Continuous Trap Cards must be face-up on the field for their effects to take hold. This is why MST works if chained to Imperial Order. The chain resolves backwards and MST destroys IO before IO's effects can take effect. Since Moist Winds/Humid Winds is a Continuous Trap Card and was destroyed before its effect could resolve, you don't resolve either of its effects.--MasterMarik (talk • contribs) 21:56, January 10, 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. After doing some googling I think I was starting to get an idea of what happened.

So, if I activated my moist winds in response to their trap destruction effect then I would've gotten the LP gain I believe, correct?

Shizentek (talk • contribs) 22:25, January 10, 2016 (UTC)

If the Trap destruction effect wasn't targeting the Moist Winds, yes, but otherwise no due to what I said earlier. --MasterMarik (talk • contribs) 22:30, January 10, 2016 (UTC)

Really? But that's why I was originally confused as, iirc, other cases where my face down moist winds was targeted for destruction I was then able to get one of it's effects off.

I'll have to wait to see it again and save it in a replay or perhaps go through replays to see if I have a saved case just to be sure.

Shizentek (talk • contribs) 22:40, January 10, 2016 (UTC)

Huh? I'm pretty sure that if a continuous spell/trap's card effect is on a later chain link than the card that destroys it, it gets off, no? Like say the effect of your cont s/t is chain link 2, and then the card that destroys it is chain link 1. I thought it would be able to use its effect because it would finish resolving before it actually got destroyed. It's only when it's destroyed before getting a chance to resolve that it will fizzle out, I thought. Aeron Solo wuz here (If you wanna talk) 22:48, January 10, 2016 (UTC)

Yes that's what I thought as well. And am pretty sure I've seen it happen that way many times before (which is why the original topic I posted about confused me so much, until I realized it was reversed chain order)

Shizentek (talk • contribs) 22:58, January 10, 2016 (UTC)

Chains resolve backwards but if your Continuous Trap is not the target of the destroying effect, it won't have any issue. --MasterMarik (talk • contribs) 13:27, January 11, 2016 (UTC)

I don't know what MasterMarik is talking about in regards to targeting. Whether or not the Continuous Spell/Trap Card has been targeted is irrelevant, all that matters is whether or not it is face-up on the field when its effect resolves—if it's not, it resolves without effect.

For example, your opponent targets your "Humid Winds" with "Mystical Space Typhoon", and you chain the effect of "Humid Winds". When the chain resolves, first you apply the effect of "Humid Winds" (which resolves successfully), then it is destroyed by "Mystical Space Typhoon". The same thing would happen if your opponent used "Harpie's Feather Duster" (which does not target) instead of "Mystical Space Typhoon". --SnorlaxMonster 04:03, January 12, 2016 (UTC)