Forum:Draccosack vs Skill Drain

Heya yugioh wiki, i got a question for you. This is regarding mpb draccosack and skill drain in this senario:

You have drac and your opponent activates SD (either chained onto drac or just activated). You activate drac's 2nd effect, tribute drac for cost and destroy SD. Would this move be valid?

Most people I've talked to on /r/yugioh and DN forums says this is valid because since the monster that activated the effect (drac) is no longer on the field, SD is incapable of negating the effect.

However, a friend of mine says this is not valid, because the effect "fizzles" as he states (like chaining a veiler onto drac to negate the effect). also they are negated as soon as the effect is activated.

This is my understanding of drac's 2nd eff: You activate it, pay the cost, then the effect would initiate. If the cost was drac himself, skill drain could not negate the effect since drac is no longer on the field before the effect initiated. Therefore, drac's eff still goes through and resolves, even if the target wasn't SD

He denies that the first two sources are correct as he believs DN forum admins know nothing and he only accepts a ruling that is officially on this wiki. I really just want him and other like-minded duelists to not get shot down badly because of this. I'm just trying to help with their understanding. NValverde1992 (talk • contribs) 02:26, July 9, 2013 (UTC)