Forum:Delta Crow activation question

If my opponent has Delta Crow - Anti Reverse and I have no back row can he activate the card? I ask because I had LADD out and he wanted to decrease my attack by 500. He did control a face up blackwing at the time. That meets the activation condition but the card cannot resolve properly. I see it as similar to how you cannot Giant Trunade, Dark Hole or Heavy Storm an empty field because the card cannot do anything. You cannot play a card just to play it, it's effect must also be valid at the time of resolution. However, he did get support from people claiming he only needed to meet the activation condition nothing else. If this is true then I would like it confirmed because that doesn't make sense to me. If that's the case it seems you can just activate whatever you want whenever you want; why couldn't an infernity player just activate all normal spells from his hand until he had nothing left regardless of their function? I may as well just be throwing cards into the graveyard, setting up all my treeborn/fishborg plays with no concern to discarding or summoning at all. Before I continue on this rant all over again I'm going to leave this here for a definitive answer. At this point I just want to know which is right the game is over and done with -- we went with his ruling and I just ended up summoning a new LADD anyway. Rozonkomo (talk • contribs) 18:57, June 27, 2011 (UTC)