Forum:A Selfish Card Guard

I had a recent run-in with a user of Card Guard. When I attempted to destroy it, he removes the counter from it instead, claiming he found a ruling of the "Guard Clause" in which Card Guard can protect... itself? I had no means of otherwise proof at the time, so I simply took his word for it, no one at locals having any experience with the card.

"When this card is Normal or Special Summoned, place 1 Guard Counter on it. This card gains 300 ATK for each Guard Counter it has. Once per turn, you can remove 1 "Guard Counter" from this card and place it on 1 other face-up card you control. If that card would be destroyed, remove the "Guard Counter" instead. "

From my understanding of card-wording, the underlined sentences would indicate Card Guard can only protect other monsters, rather than itself, because of the bolded words "other" and "that".

Would I be correct in this understanding?

74.232.42.95 (talk) 13:24, September 5, 2010 (UTC)