Dark Magician Girl struggles with Yu-Gi-Oh! Chapter 4

cahf/find andy_find Technically True cARDCAR D DODGES YOUR SKILL DRAIN! Cardcar D Cannot be Special Summoned. During your Main Phase 1, if this card was Normal Summoned this turn: You can Tribute this card draw 2 cards, then it becomes the End Phase. You cannot Special Summon during the turn you activate this effect. NOW, HOW WONDER WAND UNDER IMPERIAL ORDER!? Wonder Wand Equip only to a Spellcaster-Type monster. It gains 500 ATK. If you control the equipped monster and this card You can send both to the Graveyard; draw 2 cards Skill Drain YOU'RE GOD DAMN I'M NOT Activate by paying 1000 Life ON THE Points. The effects of all face-up DAMNED monsters on the field are negate FIELD while those monsters are face-up on the field (but their effects can still be activated). Imperial Order Negate all Spell effects on the field Once per turn, during the Standby Phase, you must pay 700 LP (this is not optional), or this card is destroyed WHY? WHAT'S DIFFER ENT? I SEE, WONDER WAND WILL BE NEGATED. B T CARDCAR D'S EFFECT WILL WORK. THE CARDS Imperial Order Spell effects activated on the field will be negated, even if the card is in no longer on the field when its effect resolves Eg: (CL1) Mystical Space Typhoon (CL2) Emergency Provisions, sending MST to Graveyard Mystical Space Typhoon is still negated

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Origin Entry: Yu-Gi-Oh!

Notes:

More ruling shenanigans, and some more context. Also can someone please make you're goddamned wight it's own image? I don't have a working computer right now.

This chapter makes more sense in the OCG since our current Skill Drain card text explicitly mentions "… while those monsters are face-up on the field". The OCG Skill Drain doesn't have that extra line, so it reads pretty much the same as Imperial Order, only differing in what cards' effects they negate. Depending on how far back you go in erratas, we here in the TCG probably had the same confusion too.

We know from the last chapter how cards like Skill Drain and Fiendish Chain can't negate monster effects if those monsters aren't on the field when their effects resolve. Imperial Order, on the other hand, does negate Spell effects activated on the field regardless of where the Spell is when it resolves. It doesn't care about the physical card, only the effect. This comes back to the whole 'effects resolve where they were activated' game mechanic. Since Wonder Wand was activated on the field, the effect resolves on the field, which Imperial Order negates.

That "the card is different" reply in panel 4 is an apocryphal Konameme in the OCG where it's said that when asked about why Mind Master couldn't tribute itself (which pre-errata did not say that it couldn't) while Substitoad could, they supposedly answered "the cards are different". Then, when asked what they meant by "the cards are different", they supposedly answered, "We mean that the cards are different."

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