Card Rulings:Dark Coffin


 * This card is only activated if sent from the field to the Graveyard. There is no way to activate this card while it is Set on the field.


 * The effect of "Dark Coffin" is activated in the Graveyard, so its effect is activated even if "Jinzo" is on the field, because "Jinzo" only applies to Trap Cards and Trap Card effects on the field. Also, cards like "Seven Tools of the Bandit" cannot be used against "Dark Coffin".


 * "Dark Coffin" activates its effect even if it is destroyed on the same turn it was Set.

You cannot choose an effect you cannot fulfill, so if you have no cards in your hand, you cannot choose to discard for "Dark Coffin".
 * If "Banisher of the Light" is in play, then "Dark Coffin" does not activate its effect when destroyed, because it is not sent to the Graveyard.


 * "Dark Coffin" activates its effect even if you destroy your own "Dark Coffin".

Mentions in Other Rulings

 * [Re: Ojamagic] Since a Spell Speed 1 effect cannot be chained to a Spell Speed 2 effect, and "Ojamagic" is a Normal Spell Cards, if "Ojamagic" is sent to the Graveyard simultaneously with a Spell Speed 2 card that activates in the Graveyard, like "Statue of the Wicked" or "Dark Coffin", then "Ojamagic" is the first chain link, and the Trap Cards will be the second and third chain links.