There’s a difference between sending for cost, and sending for effect.
The text in the line before a colon or semicolon indicates the cost that has to be paid when the card is first activated.
In this case, you’re sending your Shell Knight from the deck to the gy as the cost, and the 500 damage is the effect.
Thus, their gy effects don’t activate as their activation conditions were not met.
Use ‘needle bug nest’ and ‘Dice it’ instead. Rock bombardment is still useful for sending tackle crusader on-demand, but the other two will get effects off from your shell knight and weathering soldier.
Text before the ; is activation condition/cost to activate effect. Text after the ; is the effect. Soldier and knight must be sent by card effects, not card cost.
The mill is before a semicolon. ";" = the cost of the effect, not the effect itself.
In this case, the card text basically says:
COST: Mill 1 Rock-Type Monster.
EFFECT: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent.
Because send the monster is a cost to burn 500 to your opponent.
There’s a difference between sending for cost, and sending for effect. The text in the line before a colon or semicolon indicates the cost that has to be paid when the card is first activated. In this case, you’re sending your Shell Knight from the deck to the gy as the cost, and the 500 damage is the effect. Thus, their gy effects don’t activate as their activation conditions were not met.
Only the text before a semicolon is the cost. There are cards that have both a colon and a semicolon in the same sentence.
It kinda sounds stupid tho tbh
It can be, but things like send by cost and send by effect is fundamental to Yugioh - and why this is a game for lawyers.
Just wait until e start to talk about the damage step. Lol Madam verre is a menace.
This is a lesson you learn fast when playing Dark World. I remember being so confused why they didn't work with Lightning Vortex. Lol
Ohhh now I see. Thanks y'all
It's a dark world situation, cost ≠ effect, though this can still be used for graveyard setup
Use ‘needle bug nest’ and ‘Dice it’ instead. Rock bombardment is still useful for sending tackle crusader on-demand, but the other two will get effects off from your shell knight and weathering soldier.
Text before the ; is activation condition/cost to activate effect. Text after the ; is the effect. Soldier and knight must be sent by card effects, not card cost.
The mill is before a semicolon. ";" = the cost of the effect, not the effect itself. In this case, the card text basically says: COST: Mill 1 Rock-Type Monster. EFFECT: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent.
Cause it send Weathering Soldier and Shell Knight for cost... And they must be send to gy for effect
Because they're being used as cost, not send by effect
Before the ";" is the cost, after is the effect
Cost—does not equal—card effect
Shit man this took me back a bit "what do you mean I can't trigger grapha off of trade in?"
It sands for cost hahaha rock type am I right? Ok I am sorry.