Talk:Pillar of Fire/@comment-24409987-20150131183552/@comment-839017-20150131184524

If it boosts your monsters defense high enough, you can protect your cards from it.

For example, let's say you're using Dragon World and declare an attack against your opponents flag using Drum Bunker Dragon. They cast Pillar of Fire on your Drum. Should you cast Dragoenergy in response to this, Drum becomes a 8000/3/8000 monster, too strong for PoF here to destroy, so the spell fizzles out without an effect but the opponent still paid the gauge to cast it and put it in the drop zone.