Forum:Red eyes flare metal dragon ruling

Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon has the secondary effect: "Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 "Red-Eyes" Normal Monster in your Graveyard; Special Summon it."

I overlayed 2 Dark Magician to make the Red-Eyes. Can I detach 1 Dark Magician even though I do not have any Red-Eyes cards in the graveyard? I assume I can because it is a cost for the effect and the effect will resolve without effect. Please clarify, thank you. Picasso89 (talk • contribs) 17:18, November 14, 2017 (UTC)