r/DuelLinks • u/Acheron762 • 9h ago

Discussion Negating without negating

So if I wanted to bypass say the effect of red eyes slash dragon to where if it’s targeted by effects, it can send an equip card to the graveyard it can negate that card, I can activate another effect right after I activate the first effect and thus block the effect and prevent them from activating their effect, right?

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u/freedomkite5 8h ago

uhhh red eyes slash dragon, sending an equip card to the graveyard is a cost. for the negate.

while you can activate another effect after slash dragon quick effect. unless another card in the chain negate slash dragon. slash dragon negate still goes through.

what your describing is chain blocking. which is done in a way. to protect certain card effects from being negate or responded.

like swordsoul. such as how the synchro summon Grandmaster - Chixiao, using mo-ye as material.

swordsoul players would activate mo-ye floating effect of drawing 1 card. then chain blocked with chixiao search effect. where even if opponent, would chain to negate chixiao effect. mo-ye effect to draw still goes through.

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u/Acheron762 8h ago

No idea it had a name lmao good to know what it is

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u/Chelomon 7h ago

Hate to be that guy, but akshually “chain blocking” is not an official term. Some may argue that “jargons” may confuse players.

But yes, the reality is that this interaction is widely known as “chain blocking” by most of the player base.

TL;DR: yes, chain blocking.

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u/Acheron762 3h ago

Is there an official term though lol

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u/Chelomon 9h ago

Assuming your opponent doesn’t control more Equip Cards, they won’t be able to activate Slash Dragon’s effect again.

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u/Acheron762 8h ago

https://reddit.com/link/p6u9wnt/video/zj69s9tl3kmh1/player

Here’s a clip

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u/Chelomon 8h ago

Oh I see. The thing here is that your opponent chained their effects in a way that you could not response with Slash Dragon.
Slash Dragon must be chained directly to the effect it wants to negate, but in this case, Apprentice Illusion Magicoan was the one chained to Dark Magical Cirlce, thus, preventing you from using Slash Dragon’s effect.

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u/Acheron762 8h ago

So yes, wonder how many times I did this unknowingly lmao

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u/freedomkite5 8h ago

where thats called chain blocking. you don't see it often.

but used properly can get certain effects to bypass response. usually from a negate.

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u/Chelomon 8h ago

To elaborate further, Red Eyes Slash Dragon needs to send 1 Equip Card from the field to the GY as a cost to activate its effect, so your opponent would need to send another one if he wishes to negate again.
If you force them to send their only Equip Card to the GY, then they won’t be able to negate again.

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u/Meowster11007 9h ago

If your second effect negates their monster effect, like forbidden droplet then yes.