Forum:Rivalry of Warlords and activating graveyard effects

After Rivalry of Warlords is already active, and a conflicting monster would be forced to the field, does the monster get "destroyed" or "sent" to the graveyard? Also, would effects that normally get triggered by those activate? Say a Sangan was forced to the field, and is then forced to the graveyard. What has me confused is a ruling in Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys (the very monster I was hoping to creatively use with it), stating that it "is not considered destroyed by the effect of "Rivalry of Warlords", but rather by a condition that made it impossible for it to exist on that side of the field. So it is not Special Summoned by its own effect during the Standby Phase." --TerraGamerX 00:17, 20 November 2008 (UTC)