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Destroy

"Chthonian Blast"
"Chthonian Blast"

Japanese

() (かい)

Japanese (ruby)

はかい

Japanese (base text)

破壊

Japanese (romanized)

hakai

English

destroy

Destroying (Japanese: () (かい) Hakai) is an action that sends a card from its current location to the Graveyard.

A card is destroyed when it is sent to the Graveyard due to battle between monsters or by an effect that destroys a card. A card that is returned from the field to the hand or Deck, or, that is sent to the Graveyard as a cost or Tribute, is NOT considered “destroyed”.

Cards already in the Graveyard and banished cards cannot be destroyed. Usually only cards on the field or monsters whose Summons are negated are destroyed, but card effects that use the term "destroy" can destroy cards in the hand, Main Deck and Extra Deck. Cards cannot be destroyed in the Main Deck unless a card specifically allows and states it, such as "Chain Dispel"; if "The Fabled Unicore" negates the activation of the effect of a card in the Main Deck, it will not be destroyed.

Causes[]

NOTE: Only the first two fulfill the Trigger condition of the widely used "destroyed by battle or by card effect".

  • Invalidating an Equip Card target.
    • Equipped cards will be immediately destroyed if their target is not face-up in a Monster Zone, or has become an incorrect target.
    • If a card that is not normally an Equip Spell Card is equipped to a monster by that monster's effect, it will be destroyed if that effect is no longer being applied.
  • No free zones.
    • When taking control of the opponent's monster, if there is no empty Monster Card Zone for it, it is destroyed while under the opponent's control.

Not sending destroyed cards to the Graveyard[]

Some card effects can cause destroyed cards to be moved to a location other than the Graveyard. For example, "Grave Protector" causes all monsters that are destroyed by battle to be shuffled into the Deck instead of being sent to the Graveyard.

If a card like "Macro Cosmos" is active, cards that would be sent to the Graveyard (including by being destroyed) are banished instead. If a card like "Dark Magician of Chaos" would leave the field (including by being destroyed), it is banished instead.

Pendulum Monsters that are destroyed from the field are not sent to the Graveyard, by their own mechanic.

Sending to the Graveyard without destroying[]

Not all cards that send cards from the field to the Graveyard destroy them; cards like "Dark End Dragon", "Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation", and "Number 50: Blackship of Corn" send cards from the field to the Graveyard, but they do not destroy the cards, since they do not include the word "destroy" in the text; as such, these effects cannot be negated by effects like "Stardust Dragon".

List[]

List of cards that destroy other cards.

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