Forum:Thought Ruler Archfiend-Negation ability

This has been bothering me for a while since I've been unable to find a definitive answer elsewhere: With Thought Ruler Archfiend's second effect where you can pay 1000 LP to negate the activation of a spell/trap targeting a Psychic type and destroy it, will it work on cards which state "All monsters" or "All effect monsters" or something along those lines? The last time this issue cropped up was when my friend activated Curse of Anubis in response to my declaring an attack, and I attempted to negate it which led to a discussion and failed attempt at finding a ruling on it. Eventually we settled for it resolving and continued.

The second part of the question is: Does it only work if there is only one target that happens to be a Psychic? The text says "1 Psychic-Type monster" but it still confuses me since we've allowed it to negate things like Mirror Force before on the grounds of it responding to the one attack, but it targets all face up attack position monsters the opponent controls.

Thanks in advance whoever can clear this up for me.

Leolightman 17:47, January 31, 2011 (UTC)