Forum:Newbie questions

Hello, My two sons (and I!) just each got a structure deck for St. Nicholas Day, and they have more from Christmas. We've come up with some general questions, if anyone would be willing to help us out.

1. Field Spell Cards - "When a new spell card is activated, the previous active Field Spell Card is destroyed automatically": Does this mean if Player 1 has a field spell card activate, Player 2 is allowed to activate one and therefore nullify and destroy Player 1's Field Spell card? If that is the case, if Player 1 has "Realm of Light" with more than 2 shine counters on it, can it protect itself from an opponent activating their card by removing the required 2 counters? (i.e., is the opponent's activation treated as a card effect?)

2. Shine counters - are these treated like Spell Counters in regards to card effects, or are they unaffected, since their name is different?

3. Do continuous spell cards essentially resolve multiple times, each time their effect is used? If so, that would mean that another card's effect that activates whenever a spell card resolves would activate multiple times over how ever many turns? (such as causing spell counters to be placed on applicable face-up cards?)

4. We have assumed that if a card effect simply refers to all cards on the field, that means on both player's sides of the field, correct? (i.e., Judgment Dragon destroys his own controller's cards). This also means a card like "Miniaturize" can be equipped to an opponent's monsters, correct (which would only make since - why would you want to reduce your own attack strength??!!)

5. If a card refers to "your turn" or "one turn", we've assume that is just until that particular player states "I end my turn" as opposed to both players going through all 6 turn phases, correct?

6. In tournament play, do the duelists state each turn phase as they are going through their turn? I've been having the boys do that as a learning tool, but was wondering if that happens normally?

Well, I hope that was all of them (at least for now). Thanks for any help. Much appreciated. Quintoc72 (talk • contribs) 04:20, December 27, 2014 (UTC)