Since 6 of you deleted your comments after reading what Xing When Hu Replica does. Before commenting on the Stratos (no effect) priority activate Xing Zhen Hu Replica, please Read Xing Zhen Hu Replica, it does NOT allow any response behind it. "Cards or effects cannot be activated in response to this cards activation." NOT Xing zhen Hu, ITS "Xing Zhen hu Replica". Thanks.

I see you're wearing the fine yellow Hyperion clothing. So, you really are a man of culture as well.

The first time I played Yu Gi Oh, I thought it was a speed game where you had to activate your card first

Thanks for making this video man. Taught me a few little things. All your ruling videos are slowly turning me into a pro

Probably the most important YuGiOh! related video currently on YT. Thank you very much for putting out such intersting topics and discussions :)

I think one great example of "Priority" is Psy-Framelord Omega's effect to rip one of your opponent's cards during their main phase, you cannot just shotgun it, you have to wait for them to do an action or passing "priority" to you

When you thought having a school teach you how to play a children's card being absurd and then you watch this video.

@MST.TV This video was mega helpful in helping me learn in more depth about how chains and quick effects work. I recently got back into Yu-Gi-Oh, after stopping for 15 years. I've started playing with my step kids and now I have the knowledge to call them out when they call priority over my older cards. Thank you. (:

10:39 - The Xing Zhen Hu Replica example was cool. It reminds of another example. I activate Witchcrafter Unveiling to special summon Madame Verre from the hand. With priority, I use her quick effect to discard 1 "Witchcrafter" Spell and negate my opponent's face-up monsters that they currently control this turn. However, since Unveiling says that my opponent cannot respond directly to "Witchcrafter" monster effect activations this turn, the chain link ends, so the summoning window is over, and therefore they cannot activate Floodgate Trap Hole. Good stuff.

thank you for making this, it helps a lot with trying to make sense of how turns work!

Much appreciated Tom! Sharing this with all my Paleo pals 😅

Dude I love videos like these as someone who’s been playing this game for a long time it’s great to in depth videos like these. I wish when I was growing up and started this game (started in 5ds era) that I had videos like yours and Cimos that I could go so I wouldn’t get cheated by more experienced players. I highly implore the younger generation of yugioh players to watch these types of videos so that they can become better at the game and everyone can be on an even and fair Plainfield when competing 👍👍. I also make sure to save these videos in my favorites so if someone at locals or an event tells me different I have evidence that suggests otherwise knowledge is power.

This video is just amazing, thank you Tom. Just amazing, so much help man! Keep it up!

Hey MST.TV Thank you for the video i was new to this deck ,and it helped out my start to the new deck.

Hi MST.TV. My cousin linked this video for me to watch and it actually helped me to learn that I was making an illegitimate move. Said move was on my turn I set Metaverse and Foolish Burial(ed) my DoomKing Balerdroch to my GY. As I was the first to make a move, (won the roll and decided to go first) I then went right to my End Phase. During my cousin's draw Phase, due to my misunderstanding of Priority I waited till he had drawn his card and then called out I was activating my Metaverse during his Draw Phase, I then waited to see if my cousin wanted to play anything in response ( at this time, because his first ever turn started its obvious he didn't have anything set, but we both play with hand traps and quick-play spells, both of which he could play in response to my Metaverse) once he had said he couldn't I then searched and played my Zombie World from my deck. Shuffled and presented to be cut. He then moved his turn into the Standby Phase. I asked in that phase if he had anything to activate or play. He said he did not. I then declared I was activating Doomking Balerdroch's effect from the GY that summons itself to the field if there is an active Field Spell on the field (my Zombie World). Since I remember the days of Drop-off I had always believed you could activate cards in response to your opponent drawing. I did not know that Drop-off was an exception to the rulings (i.e. Card ruling conflicts with game rules, there by invoking the card precedence ruling.) As an extra to this, since I know now that I can't play this combo during my opponent's Draw phase. Am I able to play this same combo during my opponent's Standby phase. I'm pretty sure I can do the Metaverse>Zombie World, but am I able to also activate Doomking Balderdroch's effect to summon itself during the Standby phase after I've done said combo?

Love the rulings/procedure videos, man, a lot of us players can use the info.

Awesome vid! Everything was on point and I saw no flaws!

So, here's a (non-comprehensive) list of things that do no start a chain (most of these things are covered by the video, I'd just like to reiterate them here): 1. Summoning. Cards that perform a summon like Monster Reborn do so by activated effect, but the card they summon are summoned on its resolution (which means the summon itself didn't start the chain, Monster Reborn did). Summon mechanics like Link Summoning/Normal Summoning and the occasional unclassified effects (Cyber Dragon/Grapha) are actions that do not start a chain. This is superfluous information for the most part, but if we ever get a card that can negate summons between chain links, it will be a vital distinction. 2. Setting a card (Monster/Spell/Trap). Setting a card does not start a chain, and setting a monster card is not a summon. A relevant example of priority here involves Omega. I can set the most important card in my hand to prevent it from getting potentially banished by Omega, but once I do, my opponent can respond to the set with Omega when I pass priority. I cannot set multiple cards in a row if my opponent wants to use Omega's effect after the first set action (this also applies to each subsequent set too). 3. Declaring battle. Declaring battle does not start a chain and thus is subject to the normal rules of fast effects. Here's a quick couple scenarios involving Mirror Force, Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon and Borreload Dragon. a. I am the turn player and I control Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon and my opponent has a set mirror force. I declare an attack with Absolute and pass my priority to my opponent who then flips Mirror Force. Since Absolute is a trigger effect, I may not use Absolute's effect to negate my attack as CL2. b. I am the turn player and I control Borreload Dragon. My opponent controls a face-up monster that can be targeted by monster effects and a set Mirror Force. I declare an attack. Since I have priority, I can activate Borreload's effect to reduce attack and cut off the chain, preventing my opponent from activating their Mirror Force. There's two interactions here. First, only one chain can happen in response to attack declaration. Second, Mirror Force has an activation condition that may only be used during this window. By cutting off the chain, you have effectively prevented your opponent from activating their fast effect (Mirror Force) in this scenario. This can be applied in several areas including the summon response window and action specific windows like responding to the addition of a card to the hand (could be relevant when it comes to Droll & Lock Bird and Drastic Drop Off). 4. Drawing a card during the Draw Phase. 5. Continuous effects that aren't activated first (continuous traps and spells for example only begin applying once they've resolved). A notorious example is Jinzo.

Good video. promotes important knowledge of the game. we need more informed players in order to improve

This would be so confusing for new players imo

So I’m just now getting back into the game and am a bit confused. The chart says that during open game state the turn player has priority to do an actions, even one that does not start a chain. A buddy of mine is telling me that during open game state EITHER player has a chance to do something, which is confusing me.

This was really good for all of us, thank you!

Explaining priority to people can be stupid difficult at times, awesome job!

So if I'm the turn player and I set a card (either a monster/spell/trap) do I pass the priority to my opponent to use a card to destroy my set card? Does setting a card starts a chain ?

I deeply appreciate videos like this.

Thanks for the excellent video! I exclusively play older (Pre 06) formats and have never liked Ignition priority. It's not something that anyone would know exists by simply reading the cards themselves. Further, it just seemed to turn already top tier cards into even better ones.

my opponent has dark law and sunise on the field. he declares an attack and activates sunrise to pop my monster. I activate quaking mirror force when he attacks. what happens? does the QMF make it so nothing happens or does the sunrise pop happen and then everything gets flipped. if the latter, my monster gets banish because of dark law and then they flip or no?

Thank you do more of this video we can always use more examples

How does this apply to an attempt to activate two evenly matched? (turn player declares exit battle phase, opponent activates evenly matched, turn player chains norito to negate and destroy evenly. Can the opponent then activate a second evenly matched from hand?)

Lol I remember the days before priority rulings changed to fast effect timing. It made Chaos Emporer Dragon ridiculous because you basically had no way around the effect. One of the major major reasons I have felt, for a long time, that CED could come off the list to 1. We lost the ruling that made it damn near unavoidable. Great Segment, Tom Box!!!! 😁

Can someone help with this question i was playing TAG and my oponnent declares battle phase, after he declared i Said "wait i Activate my trap during your declaration" and then the judge said that my oponnent can continue with their main phase 1 If he wanted.

Okay here on tcg, tell me if this is correct, here is an example. I normal summon space connector activate effect then immediately chain butterspy from my hand if my opponent had ash blossom in hand he wouldn't be able to ash my connector in that example I gave right?

Amazing video as always! I have a doubt, about continuous effect priority. What happens if I SS bagoozka from the extra in defense mode and my opponent chains a Lilith having lair of darkness face up and tributes bagoozka. Does Lilith and the other monsters on the field are changed to defense position?

So with chain blocking how does that work as turn player don't I get to chain until I can't anymore?

They end standby phase. I activate a card and they dont respond. My card resolves. Does the main phase start or are we still in standby phase and can we activate more card at the end of standby.

The way I remember chain links The player whoms turn it is can activate something then they ask their opponent if they wanna chain If they say no Then you continue with your plays But, in the case they do chain Example: Turn player activated desires Opponent activates dark bribe Turn player activates counter counter The chain resolves in reverse (all chain links resolve in reverse) Counter counter will negate dark bribe and pot of desires will then get to resolve un effected by dark bribe. Like I said only an example but on short notice that's how it works. With quick effect I wanna say a quick effect is basically speed spell 3 but, realistically they are only speed spell 2 so they resolve like any other effects But, can be used abruptly before your opponent can do anything So they basically have to deal with negating that quick effect before they can continue with what they are doing. Q. What happens when 2 or more quick effects are activated in succession in a chain does the chain resolve untouched. A. I don't have any idea of how that would work. As far as on summon effects go They cannot be activated unless the summon is successful so your opponent gets that window to negate the summon. In the event the summon is successful the effect can be activated then your opponent can choose to chain to negate or let the effect of the on summoned monster go off.

QUESTION! Please answer Can you activate an effect in response to the resolution of another effect? Example: Turn player: activate Harp Horror Opponent: no response Turn player: resolve and summon Knightmare Opponent: activate sanctum when Knightmare is summoned.

Tom for all your ruling needs

Hey Tom, so after watching this video, what is a generic description for a scenario in which chain blocking is valid? Would it be when two trigger effects activate simultaneously, allowing you to choose which one is CL1 and CL2? In that case for example, the monster who activates at CL1 is safe from let's say a Ghost Ogre?

I would love to see more rullings videos, and mabye one that explains how can you become a gudge and learn rullings by yourself?

ok so at 10:13 ,since Bottomless has a trigger effect that would trigger when Stratos is summoned, and since his own trigger effect was not activated, unless Turn Player has some other card/effect that is triggered by Stratos being summoed, Bottomless will have priority. You cannot chain to a summon (because in a Summon, nothing is being "Activated" or "Resolved"), so when you activate Bottomless in response to the summon, you're not chaining to the summon, you're activating it upon it's condition being met. Therefore, since Xing Zhen Hu Replica does not trigger upon a monsters summon, it was to "wait' for stratos' summon to be complete, that is to say, you cannot activate that card until the game is in a state where it is no longer "when" stratos is summoned. Bottomless however CAN activate when stratos is summoned and is techincally "faster" in this case. This then would be the earliest point in time that Xing Zhen Hu Replica could be activated.

Eater of millions vs. Grand mole question. Turn player has grand mole and attacks eater of millions, can the turn player pass priority to the opponent to let the opponent activate eater of millions first so that the turn player can then place grand mole's effect as chain link 2?

Isn't bottomless a trigger effect? It can be activated upon any successful summon?

in the stratos example. if you summon stratos, it doesn't start any chain, but the trap hole met its condition (trigger effect). can it activate before the zing zhen hu replica???

wich effecty can I play the stand by phase? and ehy dies it exist?

Here's a ruling question for you: Photon Orbital equipped to a monster, using it's effect while equipped to send itself to the graveyard (as cost) to add a "Photon" or "Galaxy" monster. My opponent chains Called By The Grave banishing Photon Orbital from my graveyard. Will the search effect be negated because Photon Orbital was in the graveyard on resolution, or will the search resolve because it was an equip while on the field at the time of activation?

So a common thing that I seen happen is this ... My opponent goes first and they set cards, and I go second, so in my first turn I enter DP then the Standby phase, and my opponent says " on standby, activate (whatever card whether trap or monster) . So can my opponent do this????

what about opponent responding to turn player summoning of a monster with a ss2 effect. Can turn player use the ss2 effect before the opponent responds with an effect

Can opponent play a card during the end of the main phase if turn player passes priority?

Thanks for the break down

At the end of the battle phase, if my opponent activates evenly matched and I negate it with norito. After that chain resolves, are we still in the end of battle phase (ie can my opponent activate another evenly matched) or are we automatically in mp2?

Could you give us access to your priority diagram, bigger and in better quality ? I'm really interested in using it.

I have a question about when my opponent declares an attack. I have mirror force, but they say they have priority to special vampire frauline from the hand. Is that true? Frauline is ignition so isn't mirror force faster? And if so, when mirror force is activated, can they then use frauline to special summon herself, or would mirror force make her miss the timing? Thank you!!!

Regarding turn player priority: after a normal summon, turn player has prio to activate a quick eff first right? For example: I normal summon squamata, which has no eff, I can immediatly activate an el shaddoll fusion and then the opponent can respond right? Opponent cannot activate a spell speed 2 or higher effect before me, unless I pass priority?

Very nice and very helpful.

How about responding to the resolution of card effects? For example, if my opponent activates ROTA and adds Armageddon Knight, can I pass priority and not chain, but respond to them adding Armageddon knight to their hand in the resolution with mind crush?

sometimes i get people who try to tell me they continue their m1 after passing priority and i play blaze accelerator reload, and also people try to play mirror force on borreload's attack after i use the atk reduction effect

@mst.tv i have a question so how come people can activate trickstar reincarnation in my standby/draw phase before i even get to do anything

What's the name of the background music in this video?

I have a question, I use crusadias and the main thing with this deck is "chain blocking" so that your opponent can't ash or ogre (or even strike) your link monsters, how does that work?

You should do more Ruling Zone content.

I don’t know if you’ll see this but I have a question. My friend always activates one of his quick effects in response to my draw phase. Can he do that?

Great video! If the chains build 1,1,1 ect how is it I can play vs a goki player and he chain block me? Or go off and build a chain link of 3 or 4 cards and I cant respond?

So, how do balelynx and gazelle work? Can i chain block bale search? in the same way, if I summon gazelle and have fowl in hand can i activate gazelle and chain block by summoning fowl?

I feel pretty good about my knowledge about prio. There is just one card that kind of makes me stumble "Secret Village of the Spellcasters". Am I correct that If "Secret Village of the Spellcasters" is already on the field and I Normalsummon or (inherent) Special Summon a Spellcaster they can't react to the Summon with a Spell Card?

I'm still getting a doubt, for example: If I summon Rescue cat, then the priority changes to my opponent, so he can respond with torrential, or even effect veiler, is not? The same with "x" monster, lf l atack, my opponent can resoponds with "x" card before i activate a quick effect (?) I'm confused because in your case of Stratos and those traps, l understood that if you don't activate Stratos eff you still having the priority unless you generate a chain (at least in Mphase) and I did have understood that doesn't work that way. Nice videos. Greetings!

What about trigger effects ie: monarchs, black rose etc.?

I got confused on a couple things but overall good exclamation on priority.

Hey I recently had a match up at one of our locals where I had "Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy" and "Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon" on my side of the field and my enemy had "Borreload Dragon" on his side. He attack my "Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon" and immediately tried to grab my monster since he wanted to take control of it. I said I want to activate the effect of my "Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy", so he has to take "Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy" instead then he said well hold on actually I wanted to activate the quick effect of my "Borreload Dragon" so you can't chain anymore. So now my question can he actually do that since in my eyes he already has shown that he wants to "resolve" the effect of his "Borreload Dragon"? Furthermore I am not 100% sure if what I had in plan actually works regarding the effect of my monster. At the tournament spectators agreed with me so I could win in the end, but honestly I don't know if this was really all correct... Some insight here would be great I know its a lot of text ...

i had duel vs blackwing. it's my turn. in my main phase i set one trap and i end my turn. my opponent activates delta crow-anti reverse. can i activate the trap i just set, since it's my end phase?

Before my time, but Uria, Lord of Searing Flames was made substantially stronger by the old priority rules, because if your opponent had a set backrow it would have on-summon trigger effect protection, not unlike Qliphort Stealth. Also, what if the non-turn player performs a non-chain action, like Synchro Summoning from the effect of PSY-Frame Circuit?

Just Thank you!

How does priority works with simultaneous effects? Like I link summon Saryuja using A B and C + another monster. Let's say Saryuja summon is successful, would the effects be: CL1 - Saryuja and then CL 2+3+4?

does ocg and tcg has different side of rules?

So in example say i have borrelsword my opponent haves utopia lightning enters battle phase and asks if i have a response i decide to use borrelswords effect to change it to defense can he use utopia lightnings effect to prevent me from using mine if he didn't declare an attack?

I have a question, if there are multiple mandatory triggers that happen at the same time, would priority still pass after one effect triggers? I use aromages and all their triggers are mandatory when I gain life points

How does the Stratos scenario relate with spell speed 3 summon negaters like Warning? NS Stratos no effect, Warning gets the first window to respond BEFORE Xing Zhen hu Replica right? So if this is the case, why is Bottomless different? Do cards that negate summons have their own window of response, at which point after the summon is confirmed by both players, you can then chain Xing Zhen hu Replica?

Say you are turn player, you summon a monster, you pass priority, your opponent passes back. You can't activate torrential now correct because game state is open? Also on summon effects is the following accurate?: you attempt to summon a monster, you have priority to negate summon, the your opponent has priority to negate summon, then if summon resolves, the on summon effects of the monster are activated and then turn player has priority, and this is in response to effect, summon or both? I guess the last action to occur was a summon, and the monsters summon effect is cl1 in response? Oh I get it. Summon occurs, turn player priority, turnplayer chooses to activate monster effect, then priority passes to opponent.

Damn, nice vid! Didn't know turn priority is that strong lol Not sure if you covered it here it elsewhere but a simple priority question. Player A has Light monster, attacks Player B's Blackwing, Player A has Honest in hand while Player B has Kalut in hand, could Player A pass priority during the Damage Step to give Player B the priority to use Kalut then Player A can chain with Honest or did Player A lost their chance to activate Honest because Player A pass priority/chain? Thx in advance @MST.TV or anyone else that responds!

Quick question: lets say you summon borreload dragon and your opponent immediately activates torrential tribute. Can you tell your opponent "you didnt let me activate my fast effects first, i activate borrel's eff as chain 1 on summon and your torrential will miss the timing" ?

So the reason thunder dragon Titan does not activate its effect when a monster in hand activates its effect is because it’s a “when...you can” effect? Also are those effects of the activation in hand and Titan effect activate at the same time, so would that be SEGOC?

Hello, I just started playing yugioh again. and I got confused with the priority thing that my friend introduced to me. basically, what happened was. he summoned "Borreload Dragon" and then proceed to attack my Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon. Now, after declaring an attack He then proceeded on attempting to control my Vortex Dragon in which case I chained my Vortex's effect on Negating Borrel's effect. he then says that. "not so fast, turn player's priority. after declaring an attack with my Borrel I'll use it's effect to control you and then chain it's effect of reducing your monster's attack and defense by 500. then, you can no longer respond as per the card text", I mean it's really unfair andI just feel so dizzy and everything just thinking about that part. is that really how borrel works?

Great video!!

2:40 never heard that before LOL! that is BS if i ever see that. 10:17 this is the part where im confused. even if Stratos doesn't activate his effect, i should still be able to respond to the summon 1st. its like you said, I perform 1 action (doesn't matter if it starts a chain or a monster was summoned) and then my opponent gets to perform theirs. this example makes cards like "Solemn Strike" useless if i'm following the logic... 14:54 so what this means is that: even if a monster is summoned "successfully (no Strike/Warning was used)", the player that summoned it can still activate its quick effect before i can respond to the summon with a normal trap? i understand the summon does not start a chain, but i thought the priority passes to the opponent that didn't summon? i pretty much asked the same question twice lul. and about the attack declaration on Borreload, i should be able to respond to that before my opponent gets a 2nd action in a row (effect to debuff atk/def) unless i gave up priority to activate "mirror force". THEN i cannot activate "mirror force" anymore due to the opponent's quick effect of Borreload... "Borreload" doesnt get the same treatment as "Utopia the Lightning" as his effect is continuous. ill need some clarity on this. 15:18 yes i got that part. but do they still get that priority to start a chain after they: summoned a monster, declared an attack or set a spell/trap/monster? 16:28 thx again for clearing that up, i asked this exact question months ago.

How does mind crush work in this scenario? I've seen lot of players that activate a card that adds something to their hand so followin this logic the opponent would need to activate MC in response to the adding eff. And resolving first with the other player not having the designated card in hand yet, and not waiting till he adds the card to their hand and then ramdonly activating MC. Thanks for the valuable information.

I have a Psyframelord Omega on the field, at the start of my opponent’s main phase he sets a card, can I activate omega’s effect after he sets it?

Hey tombox, side question. When will those beautiful tour guide mats be up for sale?

I thought that you wern't allowed to use for example stratos' "when this monster is normal or special summoned" effect since they got rid of that priority ruling didn't they? Which would mean bottomless would respond to the stratos summon and banish it without it being able to use its effect right?

And how about the priority in "when, you can, if, you can, ifz mandadoty effects"

Does this work in a fist fight too?

I have one doubt, when I activate Nekroz of valk, can I still activate heavenly matched?

Hey tombox did you post your chart somewhere and if you didnt could you its great!

How about sky strikers? When they are in battle phase after attack, activating stuff could I have a response to those activations ?

So I normal summon cyber dragon core and I have a cyber dragon vier on my hand, my opponent have effect veiler on their hand. So can I chain cyber dragon core effect and cyber dragon vier effect to dodge the effect of effect veiler or I my opponent can chain effect veiler first before I chain effect of cyber dragon vier ? Can someone exp to me.

Does that thing with paleos also happen with multifaker?.. does multifaker have to be directly behind the trap?

So if I play dryton nova, as turn player I can play droplet and send nova and whatever to grave yard and still resolve nova, yes?opponent cannot ash…

What about solemn warning? When u normal summon the stratos? How priority works then?

So if i took this information to a locals, this is rule book basic stuff right? A judge can't just say oh this is how im ruling it?

What about chain blocks then ? When my opponent uses 1 Gouki and 1 warrior monster for Isolde, and he uses Isolde's summon effect as Chain 1, if I have a Ash Blossom in hand, can he chain block my Ash by activating immediatly the effect of the Gouki in grave as chain link 2 ? What if I have Ghost Ogre in stead of Ash ? According to what you said, this kind of chain block should be illegal cause when he uses Isolde as Chain Link 1, he passes priority to me for Chain Link 2

Can you explain how priority works if effects happen simultaneously?