Talk:Death Wizard Dragon/@comment-4842541-20141105024436/@comment-11372432-20141105033552

Sorry about that, I'm still getting used to you being a noob in this game lol. Basically, in this game, there's a split second of response time between taking damage and losing life (along with a split second between losing life and losing the game), and that is when you would be playing cards that activate in response to taking damage.

In other words, this guy's effect is already finished by the time you could even activate Shield, so it's a new chain entirely and you can activate Shield and it wouldn't go against the "one effect per chain" rule in this game.

Of course, I would find it silly to reduce only one damage most of the time. It would be a waste to use Shield that way when you can reduce two or three damage attacks. But it's an option for when you want that two gauge and have only one life, this card, and Shield or need a monster on board and only have this, but one life, I guess.