Forum:ATK/DEF mods

hey quick question. if i card has an effect involving reducing atk/def of a monster in battle that states "during" or "before" the damage stage and without this effect would have been destroyed by its attacker. is the card still destroyed and the altering of atk/def just changes the damage to life points or does it then mean that the card will survive if it provides a sufficient change to atk/def.

eg. psychic commander attacks a face up hyper synchron. and normally it would die. but if you use the effect to reduce the atk+def of hyper synchron to below 1400, does hyper synchron then die and psychic commander survives. or does it simply mean that instead of incurring 200 damage you incur 0