In this article, we return to a much simpler, but still fundamental, topic: Summons.
Author: bilaterus
A conjunction, in PSCT, is a word/phrase that join two parts of an effect. They condense a lot of information on how an effect works into a single word or phrase, and this makes them a very powerful element of PSCT.
This article is about the often confused and misunderstood ruling concerning ‘when’ optional effects.
Trigger effects come up all of the time in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and there are a couple of simple game mechanics that govern how they work. Updated: 3rd August, 2017
Here we’ll learn even more about PSCT and what it has to say about targeting.
This is the first proper article in the series! The introductory post is here: http://ygorganization.com/learnrulingspart0/ Your cards tell you more about how they work than you might realise. Cards released (or reprinted) after about 2011 (ie. almost all of the cards commonly used today) have been written in Problem Solving Card Text (PSCT). What this means is that, with a little bit of knowledge, you can get all sorts of extra information about how your cards’ effects work just from their text.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is quite an intricate and reading-intensive card game, and there are many rulings and game mechanics that seem very complex. You might think it’s not worth the effort to learn rulings. However, this is not the case – many game mechanics are actually quite simple and it’s my goal to bring the most common rulings and game mechanics to you, the players, in an accessible way. This post is the first in a series of articles that will go through the key mechanics of the game.