Talk:Priority

I have a question about priority. I overheard a conversation that the priority ruling does not exist in other parts of the world. The U.S. is the only country that has this. (for example if I summoned Mobius and my opponent played bottomless traphole, Mobius's effect never goes through.) I read the card carefully and it says "When this card is Tribute Summoned successfully, you can destroy up to 2 Spell or Trap Cards on the field." The word "SUCCESSFULLY" caught my attention. The only way a summon would not be successful is if the monster is destroyed after being summoned. Which would mean that if Mobius is not successfully summoned, it's effect would not go through. It kind of makes sense, the word successfully would not be needed if the priority ruling exist. Now bear in mind that this is only something I overheard, so can anyone shed some light on this?

-Curious


 * 'Successfully' means that the summon was not negated, such as by means of Horn of Heaven or Solemn Judgment. I'm not sure how Japan do their rulings, but Priority makes this game in the US/Rest of World more organised.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 21:00, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

The Priority rule is uniform across all TCG territories, there are no regional rule variants. All TCG rulings are released by a central body, Upperdeck Entertainment, the rulings themselves are provided to them by Konami.

Mobius the Frost Monarch's effect has little to do with Priority in the context you outlined. As mentioned above, the only way to make Mobius' summon unsucessful is to negate his summon. No kind of Trap Hole can negate a summon, in fact the Trap Holes themselves also can only be activated after a successful summon. But this is nothing to do with Priority. -Libramon

THanks -Curious

But What About Gladiator Beasts?
I noticed in this article that it says that monsters effect can still activate while in the graveyard, unless stated otherwise. So why do people say that if they destroy Gladiator Beasts that u cant use the effect? I am very, very confused! Help? Ultimate Rare 01:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The article doesn't say that. What's happening is that a monster on the field is activating its effect, and being destroyed before that effect resolves. However, that destruction won't prevent the monster's effect resolving, unless of course the effect was to be applied to that monster itself. For example, if I summon Dark Crusader and use my Priority to activate his effect, then his ATK bonus effect won't be applied if he gets destroyed before it resolves.


 * Since Gladiator Beast monsters don't say they can activate in the graveyard, it means they must be on the field at the end of the Battle Phase for them to use their effect. This is very different to the above - rather than being destroyed after successfully activating, the case here is that they never activate because they're not on the field at the time when their effect should trigger. Libramon 07:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I had a discussion with my friend about this kind of thing. I tribute summoned Caius the Shadow Monarch and removed a face-down spell/trap card on the field.  The face-down was Bottomless Trap Hole, which he proceed to activate, thus removing my Caius from play.  Is this possible?  Can BTH be activated after I use Caius' effect?

-Blanket Statements
 * Yes.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 23:28, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

On your fourth bullet, if you asked him if he had a response to your Caius and he said no, and then you used his effect to destroy his BTH, then he can't activate it, as BTH can only be chained to a summon, not a monster effect. He had his chance to use BTH and he forewent it. If you didn't give him a chance to respond to your summon however, then he can activate BTH before you use the effect.

Question
Player 1 has Solemn Judgment face-down.

Player 2 summons a monster, and using his priority, activates Call of the Haunted.

Player 1 activates Solemn Judgment. According to this article, I can negate the summoning of the monster and destroy it, or negate call of the haunted by making it Chain Link 2 correct?

Please tell me as I wish to fully understand chains and priority.

" Player 1 activates Solemn Judgment. According to this article, I can negate the summoning of the monster and destroy it, or negate call of the haunted by making it Chain Link 2 correct? " this has nothing to do with priority: Player 1 can activate Solemn Judgment as chain to call of the haunted to Negate it's effect. The Monster will not be summoned successfully. that means the monster's effect will not active. as to priority the Turn player can active any Speed 2 spells to be chain link 1 Not speed 3 as solemn Judgment.

SKILL DRAIN vs MONARCHS question
ok i eard a lot of arguments about this plz help me out because i run a skill drain deck. player 1 has a skill drain activated on the field during player 2's turn he summons successfully a monarch. does the monarch can use his effect to destroy cards or no?

monarchs
I'm just really curious about this whole priority thing like does breaker get priority? and if so when he gets trapped whole can u still launch a breaker affect or no? also same thing goes for mobius and also the shadow monacrchs. if they get bottomless or trap wholed can u still activate there effects please answer these questions


 * Yes the effects still resolve. Check, Priorty


 * Yes, the "Monarch" monsters effects will resolve. When you Summon "Mobius", you choose to use its effect and select its target(s), then the opponent may chain "Botomless Trap Hole" to "Mobius'" effect activating, because the last thing to resolve was "Mobius" being Summoned. "Botomless Trap Hole" was last on the chain, so it resolves first and destroys "Mobius". Then "Mobius'" effect activates and destroys the targeted Spell/Trap Card(s).
 * "Breaker" is a bit different. He has two effects that need to be activated. One is that a Spell Counter is placed on him. The other is removing it to destroy a Spell or Trap Card. The first one is activated automatically when he's Summoned, at that point the opponent can chain "Botomless Trap Hole". You cannot chain "Breaker's" effect to destroy a Spell/Trap, because the counter has not been placed on him and its Spell Speed 1, so it can't be chained to something, even if he had the counter. -- Deltaneos (talk) 13:34, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

Creator Incarnate Priority?
if i bottomless trap hole a "The Monster Incarnate", can my opponent still use his effect to discard 'monster incarnate' to summon "The Creator"?

I`m pretty sure you are talking about "The Creator Incarnate". Actually no your opponent cannot summon "The Creator" because "Bottomless Trap Hole" will destroy Creator Incar. before it activats. Creator Incar. activates after you normal summon it successfully.

Well, hope that helped,--59.183.136.172 12:46, January 4, 2010 (UTC)