Goat format ruling
Kuriboh
Card effect (current official text)During damage calculation, if your opponent's monster attacks (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; you take no battle damage from that battle.
Rulings
- Kuriboh does not target the attacking monster.
- Kuriboh only prevents Battle Damage to your LP; it will not prevent your monsters from being destroyed.
- Kuriboh can only be activated while in your hand, its effect cannot be used while Kuriboh is on the field.
- Using Kuriboh is a Multi-Trigger effect.
- Kuriboh is activated during damage calculation. If your opponent attacks with Injection Fairy Lily and activates her effect, you can chain Kuriboh to reduce the damage to zero.Steve Okegawa,
- Q: Why can "Kuriboh" be played in the Damage Step? A: "Kuriboh's" effect is used to reduce all damage from one attack to your LP to 0. You won't know how much damage you are going to take until you actually reach the Damage Step. This is why Kuriboh's effect is activated during the Damage Step. This does NOT contradict Kuriboh's text, which states that its effect can be used in the Battle Phase. Remember, the Damage Step IS part of the Battle Phase.
- Steve Okegawa,
- Q: Can "Kuriboh" be used after "Injection Fairy Lily" uses its effect to boost the ATK? A: "Kuriboh" CAN be used to reduce the damage from "Injection Fairy Lily" to 0, even after "Injection Fairy Lily's" effect has been used in the Damage Step.
- Steve Okegawa,
- Q: Player A plays "Injection Fairy Lily" and declares the use of effect. Player B discards a "Kuriboh," flips a "Waboku," etc. Does Player A still take the 2000 points of damage for the use of effect? A: You can discard "Kuriboh" during the damage step after "Injection Fairy Lily's" effect has been activated. The player that activated "Injection Fairy Lily's" effect will still pay 2000 LP and increase her attack by 3000. You cannot activate "Waboku" during the Damage Step. The cost for "Injection Fairy Lily" is just that, a cost. It is not damage.
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