Talk:Pinnacle of Iai, "Godspeed"/@comment-38012934-20190118164245/@comment-31598076-20190118165106

You have to be attacking the player directly for this to activate, just take note.

Some cards can send the excelblade item directly to the drop zone, althought thats pretty rare as only godpunk and lost world does that.

I believe the excelblade item can have its abilities nullified and destroyed, but it might have something to prevent that....

Finally, the main way to fight this is that lots of cards can't have their abilities nullified and have a protection from effect destruction at the same time. Other cards give that to your field. For example:

Galaxy Defense Team Far East Base can protect all your galaxy exalt and make this thing do nothing.

There are also cards like Infector that protect a monster from being destroyed. their abilities will still be nullified, but you can keep your monster and avoid the burn damage, as it only triggers when the card is destroyed.