Goat format ruling
Cross Counter
Card effect (current official text)If the DEF of an attacked Defense Position monster is higher than the ATK of your opponent's attacking monster, the Battle Damage inflicted to your opponent is doubled. Destroy the attacking monster after damage calculation.
Rulings
- You activate Cross Counter before damage calculation but after flipping the attacked monster face-up. The Cross Counter card is sent to the GY after resolving its effect and destroying the attacking monster.
- The effect of Cross Counter only applies to the one attack and does not continue for the rest of the turn.
- If your opponent’s Amazoness Swords Woman attacks your Defense Position Mystical Elf, and you activate Cross Counter, you (the controller of Cross Counter and Mystical Elf) take 1000 points of damage due to the effect of Amazoness Swords Woman, and then Cross Counter destroys Amazoness Swords Woman.
- Cross Counter is not an effect that targets.
- The effect of Cross Counter that destroys a monster does not start a chain.
- If your Stone Statue of the Aztecs is defending and you activate Cross Counter the Battle Damage your opponent takes is only doubled once (by either the effect of Cross Counter or Stone Statue of the Aztecs).
Rulings data courtesy of Format Library — formatlibrary.com. Spotted an inaccuracy? Flag it in the Goat forum — sourced change requests get reviewed.