Negate a Negate

[Palatinus]

If someone Negates your special as a defensive action can you respond by negating their negate to get your special through?

[Jack]

No. You can only play a defensive action against an offensive action, never against a defensive action. This is where strategy comes to play with drawing out your opponent's negate.

[Palatinus]

I thought as much, but wanted to make sure since there are special rules about Negates that differ from other specials.

[metaphist]

Another question about negates: Can you defensively negate something that doesn't target one of your characters? What about with the Any Hero negate?

[Jack]

It negates any special (except those that may not be defended by a special card -- JW, or the DoW), it's a very critical part of the game too. If your opponent wants to Draw 3 cards, you can negate it outright. That's where the strategy comes in; if you're playing against a negate deck, you'd want to force out the negate before you play the Draw 3 and hope he doesn't have another.

[metaphist]

Thought so, just wanted to be sure. But in the case of directly being attacked by a special, only the character being attacked can use a negate on the special, correct?

[BigBadHarve]

Thought so, just wanted to be sure. But in the case of directly being attacked by a special, only the character being attacked can use a negate on the special, correct?

Nope, anyone can negate it. Unless it's a limited negate such as Longshot's, which says negate a special played against Longshot.

The standard negate stops any special played by the opponent, regardless of who it is used against.

-BBH

[metaphist]

Can you negate another offensively played negate to save your special?

[Jack]

Yes, if your opponent is playing a negate as his offensive action, you can negate that one as your defence.

[DiceK]

I agree w/ Jack.  I haven't read all the meta rules since I was playing back in the day; however, I believe that logic to be correct.

Player 1 could negate a special card attack that hit during or in a previous battle.  The only way they could do this is offensively.  At that point, Player 2 could respond w/ a negate of their own. 

DiceK

[Nate Grey]

I agree w/ Jack.  I haven't read all the meta rules since I was playing back in the day; however, I believe that logic to be correct.

Player 1 could negate a special card attack that hit during or in a previous battle.  The only way they could do this is offensively.  At that point, Player 2 could respond w/ a negate of their own. 

DiceK

Not all that long ago I learned your opponent could remove a Special card hit from the current battle using an offensively played negate. So you are also saying you could remove a Special that is on your permanent record that same way?

[Nostalgic]

Yes.

[Nate Grey]

Yes.

Thanks! So hard to keep track of such rules. 

[Palatinus]

Not all that long ago I learned your opponent could remove a Special card hit from the current battle using an offensively played negate. So you are also saying you could remove a Special that is on your permanent record that same way?

Unless it is Morbius's negate.   

[metaphist]

Not all that long ago I learned your opponent could remove a Special card hit from the current battle using an offensively played negate. So you are also saying you could remove a Special that is on your permanent record that same way?

Unless it is Morbius's negate.   

Wow, removing hits with a Negate is news to me. I see more and more why they are so valuable. But now that I look at it, Morbius's Negate is one of those cards you can reverse engineer a rule from whether or not it's explicitly stated.