LimitedSkill Drain
Continuous Trap
Card text
Activate this card by paying 1000 LP. Negate the effects of all face-up monsters while they are face-up on the field (but their effects can still be activated).
- Property
- Continuous
Explained
A Continuous Trap. Pay 1000 LP to activate. All face-up monsters on the field have their effects negated while they stay face-up, though their effects can still be activated.
In decks whose monsters don't rely on effects in the Monster Zone, to shut down effect-heavy opponents.
- Expecting it to stop effects whose monster left the field before resolving. Those still resolve.
- Activating it in the Damage Step.
How it works
Skill Drain is a Continuous Trap. Activate it by paying 1000 LP. Negate the effects of all face-up monsters while they are face-up on the field. Their effects can still be activated.
Rulings in plain English
Activation: Not in the Damage Step. The 1000 LP is a cost.
Not an activated effect: It applies while Skill Drain is face-up.
Effects activated on the field: If the monster is still face-up in the Monster Zone when its effect resolves, that effect does nothing. Its continuous effects on the field don’t apply either.
Monster left the field: If the monster that activated its effect isn’t face-up in the Monster Zone when it resolves (for example, it was sent as a cost, or something in the chain moved it), the effect resolves normally.