Gordian Slicer
Normal Spell
Card text
This card's activation and effect cannot be negated. At the start of your Main Phase 1 or 2: Target any number of face-up cards on the field; for each targeted card, banish 1 card from your hand, or 6 cards from your Extra Deck, face-down, then return those targeted cards to the hand.
- Property
- Normal
Explained
Its activation and effect can't be negated. At the start of your Main Phase 1 or 2, target any number of face-up cards; for each, banish 1 card from your hand or 6 from your Extra Deck face-down, then return the targets to the hand.
As removal that can't be negated, paid for with spare hand or Extra Deck cards.
- Activating it after doing something in the Main Phase. It's only at the start.
- Thinking the can't-be-negated line is an effect that can be stopped.
How it works
Gordian Slicer is a Normal Spell. Its activation and effect can’t be negated. At the start of your Main Phase 1 or 2: target any number of face-up cards on the field; for each target, banish 1 card from your hand or 6 cards from your Extra Deck face-down, then return the targets to the hand.
Rulings in plain English
Order: Banish first; only if that worked are the targets returned. Not simultaneous.
Mixing costs: You can mix hand and Extra Deck payments. With 2 targets, you could banish 1 card from your hand and 6 from your Extra Deck.
Some targets gone: The remaining targets are still returned.
Can’t be negated: This line isn’t treated as an effect.