Forum:Monarch, Skill Drain, Raigeki Break, and headaches

ugh, Monarchs
okay, here's what happened xD

Skill Drain is face-up on the field. My opponent has one monster on the field, which I plan on attacking with Caius the Shadow Monarch still in my hand. I tribute a monster on my side of the field to summon Caius. His effect activates automatically (because it's compulsory) and my opponent chains Raigeki Break, sending a card from his hand to the graveyard in order to destroy my monarch. My question is this: since Caius' effect was chained to destroy him, he is no longer on the field when his effect tries to resolve. So does the effect to remove a monster from play still activate?

confusing, I know xD but Monarchs are, by nature. my guess would be that since Raigeki Break's effect resolved and destroyed Caius before his effect could resolve, he was no longer on the field by the time his effect resolves, and his effect is not negated by Skill Drain.

it really didn't affect the outcome of the duel, since I killed my opponent with D.D. Dynamite the next turn anyway. But both of us love rule-disputes, and we're curious about this one.

thanks,

~Specter (cow_pi) 21:01, 26 March 2009 (UTC)