There are several cards that prevent cards and effects being activated during the Damage Step. One such example is Armades, Keeper of Boundaries: If this card attacks or is attacked, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step.
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To activate a Spell or Trap Card is to play it on the field face-up from your hand or flipped from face-down on the field. Trap Cards and Quick-Play Spell Cards cannot be activated during the same turn they were Set. If the activation of a card is negated, that card will not be treated as being on the field.
Jul 03, 2016 · There are several cards that prevent cards and effects being activated during the Damage Step. One such example is Armades, Keeper of Boundaries: If this card attacks or is attacked, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step.
To activate a Spell or Trap Card is to play it on the field face-up from your hand or flipped from face-down on the field. Trap Cards and Quick-Play Spell Cards cannot be activated during the same turn they were Set. If the activation of a card is negated, that card will not be treated as being on the field. Do continuous trap Cards activate?
Trap Cards that equip themselves to monsters and have Continuous-like Effects that directly alter the ATK/DEF of the equipped monster, such as "Horn of the Phantom Beast", can be activated during the Damage Step for that reason alone.
They cannot be targeted by cards or effects, have their battle positions changed, or have their ATK/DEF changed, They still can have their effect(s) negated.
This card's effect that decreases its ATK by 800 and negates the activation of an opponent's monster effect is a Quick Effect. (It can be activated during the Damage Step, but cannot be activated if this card has less than 800 ATK.) This effect does not target.
As explained in previous questions, only Spell Speed 2+ cards can be activated during the Battle Phase(that is, normal trap, counter trap, continuous trap, quick-play spell, or any Speed 2 monster eff).Jan 28, 2018
Also, Can you Ash Hayate? Yes, you can. Even though Hayate lost the battle, it is still on the field after damage calculation, and its effect's activation requirement has been met.
As you've pointed out, Gamma Special Summons monsters, which historically you can't do in the Damage Step (unless it has to happen in the Damage Step, see Mystic Tomato). But this card also negates an effect activation, which historically, you can do in the Damage Step.
OCG Rulings. This card's effect does not target. Sending any number of other cards from your hand and/or field to the GY is a cost to activate this effect. During the Damage Step, it can be activated at the start of the Damage Step and before damage calculation.
You can only activate 1 "Forbidden Droplet" per turn. Hence, Droplet can negate monster effects as well as change their attack, making its use quite versatile.Sep 9, 2021
Send any number of other cards from your hand and/or field to the GY; choose that many Effect Monsters your opponent controls, and until the end of this turn, their ATK is halved, also their effects are negated. You can only activate 1 "Forbidden Droplet" per turn. ...
Trap Cards may be chained to Spell Cards, other Trap Cards, or to the effects of Effect Monsters. Normal Trap Cards are Spell Speed 2. They can be activated during either player's turn as long as it wasn't set that turn.
Spell Cards, except Quick-Play Spell Cards, can only be activated during their possessor's Main Phase (except "Curse of Fiend"); Quick-Play Spell Cards can be activated from their possessor's hand during their turn, or while Set on the field during either player's turn.
The turn player can activate Quick-Play Spell Cards from their hand during any Phase of their turn; either player can activate Set Quick-Play Spell cards during any Phase in either player's turn, except during the turn they are Set.