Paracide Parasite

[Pigheadedpizza]

I've been trying to make a deck around this card but I realised after testing it that this card doesnt actually work, I flipped several parasites, the ability activated and resolved I looked through his deck with a card (cant remember name) and there were no parasites in deck or graveyard.

Is this a bug or has anyone got a way to make this card function?

[mimizukari]

this isn't a bug. the monster needs to survive battle, by the time flip effects occur, the monster is already dead by game state. use waboku or catapult zone. any monster flip effect reliant on itself needs to survive combat.

[WiredTiger]

That seems like BS, you don't see that with any other flip monster in the whole game. Eg. Magician of Faith's effect doesn't get cancelled when it is destroyed by combat, since the effect resolves when the card is flipped: before the damage calculation but after the attack is declared.

Also, there is nothing in the text of Parasite Paracide that indicates that its effect can't resolve from the graveyard and it's effect clearly is activated when it's targeted.

[obelisk4]

Originally posted by ArKaniuM:

That seems like BS,

http://en.ygo-card.de/result_regeln.php?htm_nr=RP02-EN002&unummer=27911549

Judges said it´s the official ruling.

I THINK it is because the steps for flip effect activations during battle have always to be 1. attack 2. flip effect activation 3. destruction. Which doesn´t interfere with effects like Magician of Faith or most other flip effect monsters which go directly to the graveyard after the activation.

[Firewalk]

Holy necro Batman!

Yeah they even show that happening in the anime.