Forum:How to explain to a new players

I was playing at a little local tournament and found out there wasn't any judge to sanction card rulings. One debate I had over this one kid had the field set-up where he had one face-up Ancient Gear Beast and one face down card. I play my Smashing Ground on his Ancient Gear Beast and he activates his face down Mystical Space Typhoon. I get my Smashing Ground destroyed and I ask him why isn't Ancient Gear Beast gone? He says it stays because he MST my Smashing Ground. I tell him that doesn't work because MST says only destroys, not negate. Negate means to stop, destroy means to remove the card, not the effect. He tells me the effect of Smashing doesn't work because it got destroyed by MST and the effect gets to go away. I tell him Smashing still goes through because MST lacks the word negate.

To make that long story short: he'd end up comparing this situation to Sakuretsu Armor vs a monster (which is a different situation compared to this). He finally let his Ancient Gear Beast get destroyed by Smashing Ground because I was too stubborn to let this drop. Course he still believes that MST should of stopped Smashing Ground's effect.

Forum, my question to you is how do I get these ideas (like the difference between negate and destroy) though other people head? --184.96.249.84 (talk) 00:12, November 25, 2010 (UTC)