I was going to post this as an additional reply to this thread but I decided to just make a new thread, because that thread is **** cluttered already and I wanted this answer to be easy to find rather than buried on the 3rd page somewhere.

Assuming DfoTY preempts an effect from activating by blanking its text box (the current ruling at the moment), it follows that if both players create "if this attack deals damage" effects, then if one of mine is Ka Technique then I will be able to prevent my opponent's from going off. Lemme make an example, because that's not really clear....

I play Flooded-Nile Throw. My enhance first, I'll use Saikyo ryu.

My opponent enhances with Shooting Capoera.

I enhance with Ka Technique.

My opponent passes enhances. I pass. The enhance step ends. The block step comes and goes.

The throw deals damage. I'm the active player, so Ka Technique resolves. I choose Shooting Capoera as the target.

My floating abilities are done. My opponent's start; Shooting Capoera goes off and does nothing, because it has a blank text box. Justice is served?

Additionally, can blanking the text box interrupt abilities that have already begun to resolve? The first one to cross my mind is Sophitia** -- if she uses her enhance to make me discard X, and I use Rashotep**'s Enhance to blank her text box, will the other half of her ability ("if this attack deals damage, draw X cards") ever possibly go off properly and allow me to draw cards, or will it suffer from textless syndrome and basically fizzle?

No. Abilities are independent of their sources once played.

Since the ability has been allowed to resolve (that is, the E on Cap/Sophy was not negated or canceled), whether or not the source (the card with the ability) is blank is irrelevant when the time to resolve the ability comes. The floating effect created by the card is just sorta out there waiting to be fulfilled (or not). It doesn't care whether or not its original source is blank or not.

MegaGeese said:

The difference is that Ka is not a response. It is an E. In your example both E's fully resolve and as such set up conditions that exist independent of their cards. On DfOTY it is responding to the playing of the ability. The Effect has not resolved when DfOTY resolves. When the ability on the original card attempts to resolve, there is no text there to resolve.

It's about timing. DfOTY responds before the effect resolves. Ka Technique sets up a condition to resolve later.

Baranor said:

**stamp**

just want to second this. Shooting Cap's text has already resolved.

Antigoth said: