Goat format ruling
My Body as a Shield
Card effect (current official text)When your opponent activates a Spell/Trap Card or monster effect that would destroy a monster(s) on the field: Pay 1500 LP; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it.
Rulings
- My Body as a Shield will negate cards such as Dark Hole, Fissure, Raigeki, Eternal Rest, Nobleman of Crossout, Tribute to the Doomed, Thousand Knives, Trap Hole, Two-Pronged Attack, Mirror Force, House of Adhesive Tape, Eatgaboon, Ring of Destruction, Torrential Tribute, Bottomless Trap Hole, Man-Eater Bug, Blast Juggler, Dragon Seeker, Dream Clown, Throwstone Unit, Burst Breath, Swarm of Scarabs, Cyber Jar, Tribe-Infecting Virus, Raigeki Break, XYZ Dragon Cannon, Mega-Ton Magical Cannon, Exiled Force (negates the effect but will not destroy Exiled Force as it is already in the GY), Offerings to the Doomed (negates Offerings to the Doomed so you do not skip your DP), Jowgen the Spiritualist (when its effect is activated), Dragon's Gunfire (if the effect that destroys a monster is selected), or The Last Warrior From Another Planet (negates the effect and destroys The Last Warrior From Another Planet).
- My Body as a Shield can only be used against effects that will destroy monsters at that time. So you cannot use My Body as a Shield when Tribe-Infecting Virus is summoned; you can only use it in response to the activation of Tribe-Infecting Virus's effect, at which point the effect of Tribe-Infecting Virus is negated and Tribe-Infecting Virus is destroyed. Also, you cannot use My Body as a Shield against cards whose effects will not destroy a monster right away, so you cannot use My Body as a Shield against Jigen Bakudan, Ekibyo Drakmord, Magical Hats, Steel Scorpion, Toon Monsters, Thunder Nyan Nyan, Gradius' Option, Summoner of Illusions, Limiter Removal, Call of the Haunted, Premature Burial, or Autonomous Action Unit.
- You cannot use My Body as a Shield against cards whose effects might or might not destroy a monster right away, such as Earthshaker, Barrel Dragon, Acid Trap Hole, or Time Wizard. (Search for My Body as a Shield 2 to continue reading)
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