Rulings 101 - Priority?

Instead of like last time with the 10 questions, I'll just briefly go over 'Priority' issues, I do recommend everyone to read this, even if you have plenty of experiences, because there may be things in here that you may have not known before

Priority: The right of the turn player to perform certain actions before the opponent does.

Priority is passed to your opponent if you decide to perform a certain action, and priority is passed back to you if your opponent responds with something, and so on until neither play desires to chain anymore cards

Now, a lot of people intend to say, "I call Priority~!"

And that is wrong, you don't "Call" Priority, you either have it or not, so if your friends is saying that, correct him/her

Also, no monsters have priority, the turn player do, so if someone says, "But Lonefire has priority, slap him/her across the face."

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Just kidding, kindly correct him/her

The turn play has priority throughout his/her turn, and to break that down...

1. Whenever the turn player summons a monster

2. Whenever a chain resolves

3. Entering a phase / sub-step

Let's get on topic, oh wait, we’ve always been on topic ^_^.

First thing, summon Response window

When you normal / special summon a monster, you have priority to activate a Spell speed 2 or higher / an Ignition effect

It doesn't have to be the ignition effect of the summoned monster, it can be any ignition effect, including Genex Ally Birdman in your hand or Plaguespreader Zombie in your grave

Notice: Priority allows you to activate an effect first, being chain link 1, NOT resolve an effect first, so your opponent can still respond with cards such as Bottomless Trap Hole or Torrential Tribute since priority is then passed to them

Next, whenever a chain resolves

What can you do when you aren't in the summon response window right now?

Well, you can basically do any action that meets the criteria to do so.

There are some scenarios where the last thing to happen isn't a summon, in that case, your priority only allows you to activate Spell Speed 2 or higher effects

Ex: If the last thing to happen was adding a monster to your Hand via Reinforcement of the Army, you cannot use priority to Normal Summon that monster.

Or ... if the last thing to happen was sending Destiny Hero - Malicious to the Graveyard via Dark World Dealings, you cannot use priority to activate its Ignition Effect.

Lastly, Entering a Phase / Sub-Step

Let's say Player A entered his Main Phase 1, he desires to tribute summon his Jinzo, while Player B has Zoma the Spirit face down, well, Player A has priority to tribute summon his Jinzo before Player B can activate his Zoma the Spirit

Same thing, during damage calculation, Player A decides he's going to activate the effect of his Honest, while player B also wants to activate his Honest, now, Player A is the turn player, he can activate his Honest before his opponent, and due to the fact that there can only be 1 chain link exist in Damage Calculation (With some rare exceptions), Player B can only chains his Honest to Player A's Honest, which wouldn't be very wise if you ask me

Another example, Lightsworns vs Effect Veiler

Let's say Luminia was negated by Effect Veiler, during the end phase, the turn player has priority to either activate the effect of Luminia, or pass his priority to his opponent, if he chooses to activate Luminia's effect, it will be negated, if he chooses to pass the priority, the opponent has the choice of stop the lingering effect of Effect Veiler, or continue to negate Luminia, then priority is passed back to the turn player, in this case, the turn player HAS to activate his Luminia while it being negated

One thing I didn't really get into is responding to something such as draw a card, but after the turn player draws, he/she has priority to activate a Spell Speed 2 or higher effect

So if you have 4 cards in your hand after you draw, and your opponent has a set Trap Dustshoot, you can activate your Mystical Space Typhoon or D.D. Crow and thus making Trap Dustshoot unusable

Now of course, there are things that can force you to give up your priority, such as Summoner Monk's mandatory trigger, Breaker's Mandatory Trigger, etc, etc...

And Black Garden's Mandatory trigger will almost always be Chain Link 1, thus not allowing you to use priority to activate Ignition effects

Another off topic (This is not the first off topic???) is the Simultaneous Effects Goes On Chain (AKA: SEGOC)

Chain Link 1: Turn Player's Mandatory

Chain Link 2: Non-Turn Player's Mandatory

Chain Link 3: Turn Player's Optional

Chain Link 4: Non-Turn Player's Optional

Why is this important? Because there will be people saying, "I have priority to activate Caius' effect."

Again, that is wrong, why? Because Caius is a mandatory trigger effect, it has no