REDU format ruling

Lifeforce Harmonizer

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Lifeforce Harmonizer
Nearest-era rulings (Tengu, Sept 2011) — no REDU-specific archive exists.
Card effect (current official text)When your opponent activates a card's effect that inflicts damage, you can discard this card to negate its activation and destroy it.

Rulings

(1) When your opponent activates a card's effect that inflicts damage, you can discard this card to negate its activation and destroy it.

  • The (1) Quick Effect can be activated during either player’s turn.
  • This effect can only respond to the activation of a card that is confirmed to inflict damage at resolution.
  • You can use "Lifeforce Harmonizer" on your opponent’s card that inflicts damage to themselves, such as "Zombie Mammoth" if there is a situation where it will inflict damage to the opponent.
  • This effect can be activated if Caius the Shadow Monarch targets a face-up DARK monster.
  • This effect cannot respond to a card / effect that does not / might not inflict damage at resolution.
  • It cannot be used against the activation of "Wave-Motion Cannon" or the activation of the effect of "Wave-Motion Cannon" [REF].
  • It cannot be used against "Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch" since you don’t know if damage will be inflicted.
  • If you control "Des Wombat" and it is preventing you from taking damage, you cannot activate "Lifeforce Harmonizer".
source: Rulings_Tengu (Format Library) — nearest era to REDU (Sept 2011 vs Sept 2012); verify against period sources
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