Card Rulings:Strike Ninja


 * You cannot activate "Strike Ninja"'s effect during the Damage Step.


 * "Strike Ninja" is a Multi-Trigger effect so you can chain it to another Spell Speed 1 or 2 effect and can activate it outside your Main Phases, even during your opponent's turn (but not during the Damage Step).


 * You can only activate "Strike Ninja"'s effect when "Strike Ninja" is face-up on the field.


 * Removing 2 DARK monsters for "Strike Ninja"'s effect is a cost.


 * [Re: Big Burn] You can only activate "Big Burn" when an EFFECT that removes monsters in the Graveyard is activated. So you can't activate "Big Burn" when a player removes monsters in the Graveyard as a COST to Special Summon "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning", "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End", or to activate the effect of "Strike Ninja" or "Freed the Brave Wanderer". Nor can you use "Big Burn" when monsters are removed for a condition.


 * [Re: Divine Wrath] You can chain "Divine Wrath" to the effect of "The Creator" (Ignition Effect), "Fox Fire" when it is Special Summoned (Trigger Effect), "Strike Ninja" (Multi-Trigger Effect), and "Homunculus the Alchemic Being" (Ignition Effect).


 * [Re: Neo-Spacian Dark Panther] If you target "Strike Ninja" you can remove from play "Neo-Spacian Dark Panther" with the copied effect, but then it will no longer be face-up on the field, so the copied effect disappears and "Neo-Spacian Dark Panther" remains removed from play.


 * [Re: Return from the Different Dimension] If "Strike Ninja" is Special Summoned with this card, you can activate its effect and remove it from play again. Then during the End Phase, "Strike Ninja" will return to play by its own effect, and will remain in play, since the effect of "Return from the Different Dimension" on "Strike Ninja" was reset when "Strike Ninja" left play.


 * [Re: The End of Anubis] "The End of Anubis" WILL NOT negate the Special Summon of "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End", "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning", "Dark Necrofear", "Soul of Purity and Light", etc. (because these involve costs, not effects, and "The End of Anubis" cannot negate paying costs). "The End of Anubis" WILL NOT negate "Strike Ninja"'s effect because removing 2 DARK monsters from the Graveyard is a cost.