Card Rulings:Fire Princess

OCG Rulings

• Her effect is a Continuous Effect that takes place immediately after you gain Life Points. So if you gain Life Points in the middle of a chain, you inflict damage immediately after the chain link resolves, and then finish resolving the chain.

• "Barrel Behind the Door", "Trap of Board Eraser", and similar Counter Trap cards must be activated in Chain to an effect which inflicts damage. If the effect of a Spell, Trap, or Effect Monster Card like "Spell Chronicle", "Curse of Darkness", or "Fire Princess" would inflict damage but does not start a Chain, then you cannot activate a card like "Barrel Behind the Door".

Previously Official Rulings

• If you have a face-up "Fire Princess" and a Set "Poison of the Old Man" when your opponent activates "Dark Hole" you may chain "Poison of the Old Man" to increase your Life Points and the effect of "Fire Princess" will deal 500 damage to your opponent even though she is then destroyed by "Dark Hole", because the effect of "Fire Princess" is a Continuous Effect.

• If you have 1 "Fire Princess" and 2 "Solemn Wishes" on the field, "Fire Princess"'s effect deals 1000 damage to your opponent when you draw. If you have 1 "Fire Princess" and 2 "Marie the Fallen One" in your Graveyard, "Fire Princess"'s effect deals 1000 damage to your opponent during your Standby Phase.

• If you have 2 "Fire Princesses" and 1 "Solemn Wishes" on the field, your opponent takes 1000 damage when you draw a card (and takes 2000 damage if you had 2 "Solemn Wishes" on the field instead of 1).

• If "Mysterious Puppeteer" is on the field when you Summon "Fire Princess", "Fire Princess"'s effect will deal 500 damage to your opponent because of "Mysterious Puppeteer"'s effect.

• If you have "Soul Absorption" and "Fire Princess" face-up on the field when your opponent removes 3 monsters from his Graveyard to Summon "Dark Necrofear" you will gain 1500 Life Points and "Fire Princess"'s effect will deal 500 Damage to your opponent.

Mention in Other Rulings

• Barrel Behind the Door: You cannot activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against a Continuous Effect Monster ... "Fire Princess" (even if an effect like "Gift of the Mystical Elf" is activated while "Fire Princess" is on the field).

• Divine Wrath: You cannot chain "Divine Wrath" to Continuous Effects such as: ... "Fire Princess", ....

• Emergency Provisions: You gain the Life Points from this card's effect in one lump sum, so if you control "Fire Princess" her effect will only inflict 500 points of damage.

• Gryphon's Feather Duster: When you destroy multiple cards at the same time with "Gryphon's Feather Duster", you gain the Life Points as 1 "lump sum", so your "Fire Princess" will only do 500 damage.

• Life Absorbing Machine: The effect of "Life Absorbing Machine" increases your Life Points for each cost you paid separately. So if you had "Fire Princess" on the field, and you paid 2 costs during your last turn, "Fire Princess" will deal 1000 points of damage to the opponent.

• Soul Absorption: However, you receive the Life Points from "Soul Absorption" as a "lump sum", so in the case of "Dark Necrofear" you gain 1500 Life Points but your "Fire Princess" would only do 500 points of damage.

• The Spell Absorbing Life: If you control "Fire Princess" and activate "The Spell Absorbing Life", "Fire Princess" inflicts 500 damage no matter how many Life Points you gained from "The Spell Absorbing Life".