Firestorm

The Fire element ability. Deal damage equal to your ATK to one or more monsters in the arrow direction, distributing freely.

How it Works

When you trigger a Firestorm ability arrow, you distribute your active card's ATK as damage across one or more valid target monsters in the arrow's direction. You choose how to split the damage — all to one target, or spread across several.

Any monster whose DEF reaches 0 from Firestorm damage is immediately destroyed and sent to the graveyard. Firestorm is one of the few ways to destroy multiple cards in a single use.

Rules

• Distribute your active card's ATK across one or more valid targets in the arrow direction. Unused damage is lost.
• Valid targets are monster cards (active or covered) in the arrow direction. You may target monsters belonging to either player.
• Any monster whose DEF reaches 0 or below is destroyed and sent to the graveyard. When a card is destroyed this way, no reactivation occurs — the card simply leaves the board.
• Covered cards (played from hand normally) are destroyed by just 1 point of Firestorm damage — their DEF is not checked.
• Growth-placed covered cards are also destroyed by 1 point of Firestorm damage. See Growth.
• Firestorm damage is cumulative across the entire turn. Damage dealt in Ability Phase 1 carries forward into the conflict phase, and damage from conflicts carries into Ability Phase 2. A card damaged by Firestorm before a conflict enters that conflict with reduced DEF; remaining Firestorm damage after the conflict can finish it off.
• Block cards cannot be targeted by Firestorm.