Discard =/= send from hand to graveyard ?

[Nekshe]

Hello, is discarding from hand the same as "sending a card from hand to graveyard" ?

Because im trying to play an effect that says "send a card from you hand to graveyard" and its not activating an effect of "when you discard this card".

[Pepper Pimienta]

i think they are actually two different things so i would say they are not the same" but welcome to yugioh where a lot of the rullings don't even make since

[DUBINA]

send and discard is 2 different things in the game. however there is also 2 differences of discard in the game: discard for a cost to activate a card and discard for effect to resolve a card.
you should be more detailed in your post for me to be able to provide you with a full answer, like which cards are involved.

[Nekshe]

Originally posted by DUBINA:

send and discard is 2 different things in the game. however there is also 2 differences of discard in the game: discard for a cost to activate a card and discard for effect to resolve a card.
you should be more detailed in your post for me to be able to provide you with a full answer, like which cards are involved.

Fabled Ganashia and Fabled Soulkius

[Pepper Pimienta]

Originally posted by DUBINA:

send and discard is 2 different things in the game. however there is also 2 differences of discard in the game: discard for a cost to activate a card and discard for effect to resolve a card.
you should be more detailed in your post for me to be able to provide you with a full answer, like which cards are involved.

yeah i thought it was something like that this game is a game of loopholes

[DUBINA]

Originally posted by Nekshe:

Originally posted by DUBINA:

send and discard is 2 different things in the game. however there is also 2 differences of discard in the game: discard for a cost to activate a card and discard for effect to resolve a card.
you should be more detailed in your post for me to be able to provide you with a full answer, like which cards are involved.

Fabled Ganashia and Fabled Soulkius

well yes , thats an obvious difference. the card needs to be used the way it is instructed in the text of the card.

[Nekshe]

Originally posted by DUBINA:

Originally posted by Nekshe:

Fabled Ganashia and Fabled Soulkius

well yes , thats an obvious difference. the card needs to be used the way it is instructed in the text of the card.

Well, as both are part of the same deck, and "send from hand to the graveyard" could very well be a synonym of discarding, then i guess its just natural to assume they are the same thing

[Sparse Dunes]

Originally posted by Nekshe:

Originally posted by DUBINA:

well yes , thats an obvious difference. the card needs to be used the way it is instructed in the text of the card.

Well, as both are part of the same deck, and "send from hand to the graveyard" could very well be a synonym of discarding, then i guess its just natural to assume they are the same thing

why would they do that though? They don't do things like that intentionally.

That's the thing with Yugioh. There are a lot of "if" "ands" "or" "buts" and you gotta read through all of them to really understand the game.

Discardsing and sending cards to the graveyard is very similar to destruction or non-destruction. They're both sent to the graveyard, but one isn't classified as destroyed meaning it bypasses cards like Yubel or Nephys' revival effect.

[Obsidian Dragoon]

They are not the same mechanic, even though they are functionally the same.

Sending a card mostly encompasses everything Discard does. However, Sending a card to a location means it has to go directly from X to Y. If an effect otherwise blocks that, you cannot "send to X" for costs. Discard (as long as it doesn't specify a place for it to go to) would resolve its destination normally.

[Soda]

Hi, Official TCG Judge here:

Originally posted by DUBINA:

send and discard is 2 different things in the game. however there is also 2 differences of discard in the game: discard for a cost to activate a card and discard for effect to resolve a card.

Dubina has adequately explained that sending from hand to GY and discarding are different things.

If there's any further questions, feel free to contact me.