Negating an effect

[exiledforcefreak]

Does a card that negates an effect such as fizzle need to be the next imediate link in the chain like in YGO?

Example:

My opponent uses savage beatdown, can I use garth's ability to get savage beatdown from my KO'd pile and then use it to negate savage beatdown?

 

[Digital Jedi]

I believe it does need to be the next effect on the chain. But since the chain differs so much in VS, as the chain resolves, the primary player (the player whos step it is) would have to decide what to add to the chain each time a link resolved, or to pass back to you.

So in your scenario this is how it would look:

1. Your opponent attacks.
2. He chains Savage Beatdown to the attack.
3. He passes on the chain.
4. You chain Garth's effect and go get Fizzle from your KO'd pile.
5. You pass on the chain.
6. He decides not to put anything else on the chain and let's Garth's effect resolve.
7. He can now place another effect on the existing chain.
8. He chooses not to and passes the chain back to you.
9. You place Fizzle on the chain directly to Savage Beatdown before it resolves.
10. You place nothing else on the chain and pass back to your opponent.
11. Your opponent puts nothing on the chain and lets Fizzle resolve.

Unless he plays something to negate Fizzle in this chain then Savage Beatdown will not resolve.

Each time an effect resolves the players pass back and forth to each other till the whole chain resolves. So you don't have to play a negation effect directly after the effect it's negating was played. It only needs to be placed on the chain directly before the effect it's negating. And since the chain resolves so neatly, that's always possible.