Forum:Can't just activate a card without meeting the cards requirements right?

Ok so I was on the dueling network and I was caught in a pretty intense duel with this kid. actually one of the best duels I've had. Anyways, after many turns back and forth were at a stalemate because I have reflect bounder on the field and he has magician of black chaos. He can't attack or he'll lose. His spell and trap zone is also completely filled up so he can't play any cards in his hand. All of a sudden he sends a set polymerization to the graveyard in order to make space to activate a card to destroy my reflect bounder and thus attack and win the duel. I ask him why the heck he could just send his polymerization to the graveyard. He tells me he activated it and it failed so it was destroyed. I told him many times he can't just activate a card and get rid of it, but he insisted he could. I eventually quit because I hate dueling people who I think don't know what they're doing. He was wrong wasn't he? You can't activate a card without first meeting the requirements right? In polymerizations case he needed two fusion material monsters before he could activate it. Please let me know if I got anything wrong. Drake52 (talk • contribs) 18:10, March 2, 2014 (UTC)