Negate

Source: Yugioh Wikia

To Negate a card is to prevent a card from activating and/or using its effect. Destroying a card is not the same as negating the card. Such card examples are:


 * Using | Seven Tools of the Bandit on | Royal Decree
 * Using | Magic Jammer on | Monster Reborn
 * Using | Trap Jammer on | Mirror Force
 * Using | Skill Drain on | Chaos Sorcerer
 * Using | Solemn Judgment, | Horn of Heaven and | Forced Back on the Summoning of | Jinzo

To negate an attack is to stop a battle from taking place and preventing the monster from attacking again during the same turn. Examples include "| Magic Cylinder, "| Draining Shield" or "| Negate Attack".

Note that cards such as "| Sakuretsu Armor", "| Mirror Force" and "| Dimensional Prison" do not negate attacks. The attacking monster is removed from the field during the Battle Step and the attack ends.