Talk:Demonic Demise Dragon, Azi Dahaka/@comment-4842541-20150310171048/@comment-4764137-20150328085711

Last reply is less than 2 weeks old, so this isn't a necro, right?

Anyways, I got bored reading comments while I couldn't sleep, and decided to look into this one. Counterattack DOES go off first. In the Detailed Rules, Flow of an Attack Phase... Step 3.1 is determine if the attack hits, then 3.2 is Counterattack and Penetrate... Then 3.3 is the cards are removed from being "attacking" and "attacked" cards. 3.4 is "deals damage" and "destroys"/"destroyed". Counterattack WOULD go off first. Which should mean damage would be prevented and your item would be safe, since a destroyed card doesn't deal combat damage... Azi would no longer be attacking before he is removed from the combat, and thus damage wouldn't be dealt... I think. I'd need an official ruling on it, but I'd feel confident in that assessment. Of course, you still lose your monsters, but regardless... That's what ya get from reading the rules.