Card Rulings:Injection Fairy Lily

TCG Rulings

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Turbo Rocket: If “Turbo Rocket” attacks “Injection Fairy Lily” and the controller of “Injection Fairy Lily” pays 2000 Life Points to activate its effect, the damage dealt by the effect of “Turbo Rocket” will be 200 because it looks at the ATK of the monster after damage calculation is over.

OCG Rulings

• This effect activates during damage calculation.

• Paying 2000 Life Points is a cost to activate this effect.

• If this card battles, you can activate this effect during your opponent's turn.

• This effect can only be activated once per Damage Step.

• During the Damage Step, cards like "Rush Recklessly" can only be activated before damage calculation. You cannot Chain "Rush Recklessly" to the effect of "Injection Fairy Lily" which activates during damage calculation.

• This effect can be activate more than once during the same Battle Phase, but not during the same Damage Step. This effect can only be activated once per battle. Therefore, when you attack with "Injection Fairy Lily" you can only activate its effects once, and when it is atacked, you can activate its effects once for each monster that attacked it.

• If your Life Points becomes 0 to pay a cost, then you will immediately lose the Duel. Therefore, if you have exactly 3000 Life Points, you can activate her effect, but you lose the Duel immediately before damage calculation.

• You can only have one Chain during damage calculation.
  • Example: If the effect of "Kuriboh" and "Injection Fairy Lily" are activated, the effect of "Kuriboh" can be activated in a Chain to the effect of "Injection Fairy Lily", but the effect of "Kuriboh" cannot be activated in a new Chain after the effect of "Injection Fairy Lily" resolves.

• You can activate "Divine Wrath" and "Gladiator Beast War Chariot" during the Damage Step in chain to an Effect Monster's effect. You can also activate these cards during damage calculation, for example, in chain to the effect of "Injection Fairy Lily".

Previously Official Rulings

• You can activate this card's effect during both players' Damage Steps, at damage calculation. You can activate it only once per Damage Step, but if "Injection Fairy Lily" is involved in multiple battles in the same turn, you can activate it once during each battle.

• You cannot increase this card's ATK by 6000 points by paying 4000 Life Points.

• The ATK increase only lasts for that 1 Damage Steps. If this card is involved in multiple battles during the same turn, you must pay 2000 Life Points each battle if you wish to keep increasing its ATK.

• Activating this card's effect does not cause a replay.

• You may activate this card's effect even when it is attacking directly.

• If your "Injection Fairy Lily" is in battle with the opponent's "Injection Fairy Lily" the turn player must decide to use its effect or not first. The opponent can then activate their "Injection Fairy Lily" effect. If both effects are activated, it forms a chain.

• If this card is equipped with "Heart of Clear Water" and you activate its effect to increase its ATK, the "Heart of Clear Water" is immediately destroyed.

• The effect of "Mirror Wall" will reduce "Injection Fairy Lily"'s ATK by half before you decide to use its effect or not. So if you activate its effect, its ATK will be 3200. If 2 copies of "Mirror Wall" are active, its ATK will be 3100.

Mentions in other Rulings

• Buster Rancher: If "Injection Fairy Lily" is equipped with "Buster Rancher", and you use her effect to increase her ATK, "Buster Rancher" is destroyed. If "Injection Fairy Lily" battles a monster equipped with "Buster Rancher", and her effect is used to increase her ATK, then "Buster Rancher"'s effect activates and increases the ATK of the other monster.

• Diffusion Wave-Motion: You can activate "Injection Fairy Lily"'s effect when she is attacked by a Level 7 Spellcaster-Type monster selected with "Diffusion Wave-Motion" because her effect is applied during damage calculation.

• Fairy Box: The current ATK is reduced to 0, including all Equip Spell Cards. Trap Cards and Quick-Play Spell Cards cannot further increase the monster's ATK this battle. A monster effect such as "Injection Fairy Lily" can increase its own ATK after "Fairy Box" is successful.

• Kuriboh: "Kuriboh" is activated during damage calculation. If your opponent attacks with "Injection Fairy Lily" and activates her effect, you can chain "Kuriboh" to reduce the damage to zero.

• Last Turn: ...You can use the effect of "Injection Fairy Lily" and other monster effects during the special Battle Phase.

• Metalmorph: If your monster that is equipped with “Metalmorph” attacks your opponent’s “Injection Fairy Lily”, if your opponent activates “Injection Fairy Lily’s” effect it will be resolved first, and then after “Injection Fairy Lily’s” ATK is increased by 3000 your monster will gain additional ATK equal to half of “Injection Fairy Lily’s” total ATK.

• Reflect Bounder: Effects such as..."Injection Fairy Lily" happen after "Reflect Bounder"'s effect, because "Reflect Bounder"'s effect happens before damage calculation.

• Secret Pass to the Treasures: ...If you use "Secret Pass to the Treasures" on "Injection Fairy Lily", and attack directly, you cannot activate the effect of "Injection Fairy Lily".

• Shooting Star Bow - Ceal: "Shooting Star Bow - Ceal" decreases the current ATK. So if "Injection Fairy Lily" is equipped with "Shooting Star Bow - Ceal" and activates her effect, her ATK is 2400 ((400 - 1000) + 3000 = 2400).

• Skyscraper: If your opponent's monster's ATK is increased during the Damage Steps, like "Injection Fairy Lily"...your "Elemental Hero" will gain the +1000 ATK for "Skyscraper".

• Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce: You can equip "Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce" to "Injection Fairy Lily" and you can use her effect for each attack.