NEW AND IMPORTANT GAME CHANGES!!!

FAST EFFECT TIMING


Fast effects & Timing

Fast effects are card activations and effects with a Spell Speed of 2 or higher, including monster Quick Effects, Quick-Play Spell Cards, and Trap Cards (which includes both activating Trap Cards, and activating the effects of things like Continuous Trap Cards).

Fast effects can be activated by either player – even during their opponent’s turn, as long as the conditions are appropriate. When both players want to activate fast effects at the same time, they are placed on a Chain (see pages 38-41 of the v8.0 rulebook).

Sometimes, it can make a big difference WHO places their fast effect on the Chain first. This guide will help you figure out who, at any point in time, has the chance to activate the next fast effect (in other words, who gets to “go next”).

Usually, the turn player has the chance to “go next” and activate the next fast effect.

However, during a Chain, the chance to go next passes back and forth between players. (Chain rules: see pages 38-41 of the v8.0 rulebook.)

Also, if the turn player doesn’t wish to take any actions, and instead wants to move along in the turn (for example, to the next Step or Phase), the opponent has an opportunity to go next, and activate a fast effect, before the turn proceeds.

Follow the chart at the bottom to see which player can “go next” regarding fast effects.



Turn Player Actions

Each Phase and Step starts with the turn player in box A of the chart listed below. This is when the game state is “open”, meaning the turn player has complete freedom of action.

Many actions can ONLY be performed when the game state is open (when you’re in box A). Examples:

Normal Summon (including Tribute Summon)
Set a card
Perform a Special Summon that does not start a Chain (including Xyz Summon, Synchro Summon)
Change a monster’s Battle Position
Attempt to move to the next Phase/Step
Draw a card for your normal draw during the Draw Phase
Declare an attack
Activate an Ignition Effect
Activate a Spell Speed 1 Spell Card

If the game state is “open”, the turn player may perform any of the above actions that is appropriate. They can also choose to activate a fast effect, if they wish.



When Is the Game State No Longer “Open”?

Whenever either player performs an action, the game state is no longer open.



How Do I Make the Game State “Open” Again?

Basically, when nothing is going on, and neither player wishes to do anything, the game state goes back to being “open”.

Technically, this means:

IF the Turn Player has the chance to activate the next fast effect
AND the turn player passes to the opponent
AND the opponent then passes back
AND no Chain is currently being formed

…then the game state is open again.



How Does the Turn Move to the Next Phase or Step?
If the game state is open, and the turn player chooses not to do anything, and the opponent waives the chance to activate a fast effect, and both players agree to have the turn proceed, then you move to the next Phase or Step.





THAT MEANS, NO IGNITION EFFECT PRIORITY!!! BYE BYE RESCUE RABBIT!!!

THANK GOD!

Wait the chart states that in an open game state only the turn player has the right to perform an action so in an open game state the turn player does have the priority to activate ANY monster effect. So why bye bye rescue rabbit?

An open game state is when no one activates nothing. When rescue rabbit is summoned, if I have a veiler on the field and I want to respond to that summon by veiler, in the past I couldn't do it unless the turn player has passed me priority, after activating rabbit's effect (by that time, veiler was useless).

Now for the game state to be open, turn player has to summon rabbit, pass priority to me to respond to that summon (he can not activate rescue rabbit's effect yet) and if I pass back then AND ONLY THEN the game state is open.

The moment when you both just "sit" in the main phase and doing nothing, and nothing is going on, that's the open game state.

I can't put is simpler than this.

xD

good veiler, go kill rabbit :3

Oh I get it because then the turn player only has the priority to activate a quick effect. But then, I will have to make an example to see if it works this way:
Me: Has an active Dimensional Fissure and a Set Karma Cut.
He: Tunes and Synchro Summons Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier.
Me: Activates Karma Cut, Discarding 1 card and banishing Brionac.
He: States that he activates his effect first, since he has the priority.

This resulted in an admin call. The admin said that although he discarded swift scarecrow which is banished due to fissure so the effect cannot be activated that way, he also said that he did have the priority to activate his effect first. So, from now on, can I activate Karma Cut before the effect of Brionac? Is it the same case? And is there any way to respond to rabbit except veiler?

Divinity wrote:Oh I get it because then the turn player only has the priority to activate a quick effect. But then, I will have to make an example to see if it works this way:
Me: Has an active Dimensional Fissure and a Set Karma Cut.
He: Tunes and Synchro Summons Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier.
Me: Activates Karma Cut, Discarding 1 card and banishing Brionac.
He: States that he activates his effect first, since he has the priority.

This resulted in an admin call. The admin said that although he discarded swift scarecrow which is banished due to fissure so the effect cannot be activated that way, he also said that he did have the priority to activate his effect first. So, from now on, can I activate Karma Cut before the effect of Brionac? Is it the same case? And is there any way to respond to rabbit except veiler?

If the admin said that the Brionac owner could activate Brionac's effect using turn player priority, this one needs to do some serious homework.

Yes you can activate Karma Cut as a response to Brionac's summon without your opponent being able to activate Brionac's effect as chain link 1 anymore.

Good cards VS Rescue Rabbit:

Effect Veiler
Enemy Controller
Super Polymerization
Book of Moon
Torrential Tribute
Karma Cut
Raigeki Break


Note that cards like Skill Drain and Fiendish Chain resolve as always, meaning that they can't still negate Rabbit. They both need the monster in question to remain face-up on the field at effect resolution. So if a player summons a Rescue Rabbit and opponent responds with a Fiendish Chain, the rabbit owner can then tribute it and activate its effect properly, since it is a cost to tribute, and it doesn't remain on the field during effect resolution.

Reaper of the Cards wrote:

Divinity wrote:Oh I get it because then the turn player only has the priority to activate a quick effect. But then, I will have to make an example to see if it works this way:
Me: Has an active Dimensional Fissure and a Set Karma Cut.
He: Tunes and Synchro Summons Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier.
Me: Activates Karma Cut, Discarding 1 card and banishing Brionac.
He: States that he activates his effect first, since he has the priority.

This resulted in an admin call. The admin said that although he discarded swift scarecrow which is banished due to fissure so the effect cannot be activated that way, he also said that he did have the priority to activate his effect first. So, from now on, can I activate Karma Cut before the effect of Brionac? Is it the same case? And is there any way to respond to rabbit except veiler?

If the admin said that the Brionac owner could activate Brionac's effect using turn player priority, this one needs to do some serious homework.

Yes you can activate Karma Cut as a response to Brionac's summon without your opponent being able to activate Brionac's effect as chain link 1 anymore.

Good cards VS Rescue Rabbit:

Effect Veiler
Enemy Controller
Super Polymerization
Book of Moon
Torrential Tribute
Karma Cut
Raigeki Break


Note that cards like Skill Drain and Fiendish Chain resolve as always, meaning that they can't still negate Rabbit. They both need the monster in question to remain face-up on the field at effect resolution. So if a player summons a Rescue Rabbit and opponent responds with a Fiendish Chain, the rabbit owner can then tribute it and activate its effect properly, since it is a cost to tribute, and it doesn't remain on the field during effect resolution.

1st of all, Rescue Rabbit is not Tributed. It is banished. 2nd, I do not understand the concept of your last paragraph. There is this thing that is not clear to me. Even if the effects of a face-up monster are negated by Skill Drain, can that monster still activate an effect that requires to tribute it?

example: Player A controls Exiled Force.
Player B controls a face-up Skill Drain.

Exiled Force's effects are negated. Tributing it even though it being a cost is still a part of its effect, that is negated. How come it gets to activate this part of its effect, and subsequently the whole effect?

And if Player A controls Rescue Rabbit instead and Player B discards Effect Veiler, is Player A able to banish Rescue Rabbit without Summoning the two Dinosaurs?

Υ.Γ. In my Dino Deck I have Kabazauls and Sabersaurus. It happens many times to draw 2 Kabazauls or Sabersauri and thus not be able to activate the effect of Rescue Rabbit, or some other times it happens to be lucky and get 3 Rescue Rabbits in the hand(by means of Sangan and Pot of Duality), thus rendering the 3rd one useless. Is Two-Headed King Rex considered a good addition to this Deck?

thank you ^^