Imagine building an entire dungeon crawl system where players summon monsters or cast spells based on what they draw
Once, while this card is in your Pendulum Zone, you can negate an activated Spell effect that would inflict damage to you, then destroy this card
The $17,000 copy that sold at Goldins only has a PSA 8 Near Mint grade: there are basically no higher-quality versions of the card available
Yumas the only straight-up good guy, so big surprise that the I-work-alone Shark and the better-than-all-yall Kaito both get pretty steamed about having to accept Yumas help
This usually happens when your opponent's main force is sufficiently bloodied, crippled or damaged enough that, while they can continue to fight, their effectiveness is severely reduced and the best they can hope for is a Pyrrhic Victory
Monster is not discarded, it is special summoned, and if it is, it comes with a powerful effect