Con somevody pleese explain the exact ruleing of barral begind the door to me, exactly what surcamstances can the effect be activated in?

Will it work with folowing cards?

1. Lilly
2. Wall af revealing light
3. Barrel behind the door
4. Mirror wall
5. Mask of brutality
6. 7 tools of the bandit
7. Metion destruction
8. Lava golem
9. Mystic Cylinders
10. Fire Princess

Barrel Behind the Door is a counter-trap meaning that it must be played in direct succession to a card that it is countering. It can only be played on cards that inflict damage. It cannot be played on cards that require life point payment.

1. Lily- NO
2. Wall of Revealing Light- NO
3. Barrel Behind the Door- NO
4. Mirror Wall- NO
5. Mask of Brutality- NO
6. Seven Tools of the Bandit- NO
7. Meteor of Destruction- YES
8. Lava Golem- YES (Triggered Effect)
9. Magic Cylinders- YES
10. Fire Princess- NO (Continuous Effect)

It will work with all of them and it will also work with Ring of Destruction

First of all, Barrel behind the door cannot be used to redirect payment costs, such as 7 tools and lily. Second, it cannot be used if the damage going to be done is uncertain, such as if i flipped dice jar. I could not activate BBtD because it is unknown whether I will take any damage.

btw, i think you mixed up fire princess and lava golem. Lava Golem is a continuous effect and fire princess is triggered.

Ummm... no it won't.

As soon as I saw this topic, I cringed, because people still have not figured out this card. It has been out for over a year and people just don't get it.

*sigh*

So here is the "book" on Barrel Behind the Door:


"Barrel Behind the Door" can only be activated against an effect that inflicts damage to YOUR Life Points.

"Barrel Behind the Door" can only be activated against DAMAGE. It cannot be activated against costs like "Imperial Order" or "Wall of Revealing Light". It cannot be activated against effects that cause you to lose Life Points like "The Immortal of Thunder". It cannot be activated against effects that switch damage, like another "Barrel Behind the Door", because they do not inflict damage, they simply transfer it.

You cannot activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against a Continuous Spell or Trap Card, an Equip Spell Card, or a Field Spell Card. So you cannot activate it against "Magical Thorn", "Dark Snake Syndrome", "Wave-Motion Cannon", or "Black Pendant".

You cannot activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against a Continuous Effect Monster like "Gravekeeper’s Vassal" or "Fire Princess" (even if an effect like "Gift of the Mystical Elf" is activated while "Fire Princess" is on the field).

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against Normal and Quick-Play Spell and Trap Cards, such as "Tremendous Fire" or "Attack and Receive".

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against Trigger Effects like "Lava Golem", "Giant Germ", "Relinquished" (when it inflicts effect damage, since "Barrel Behind the Door" can be activated during the Damage Step because it is a Counter-Trap Card), "Minar" (when discarded), "Parasite Paracide" (when it inflicts effect damage), "Bowganian", "Mushroom Man #2", "Reflect Bounder" (when it is attacked), "Shinato, King of a Higher Plane" (when it attacks and destroys a Defense Position monster and sends it to the Graveyard), "Granadora" (when destroyed and sent to the Graveyard), "Balloon Lizard" (when destroyed), "KA-2 Des Scissors", "Needle Burrower", "Atomic Firefly", "Elephant Statue of Disaster", and "Ameba".

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against Ignition Effects like "Cannon Soldier", "Catapult Turtle", "The Agent of Judgment - Saturn", and "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End".

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against Flip Effects like "Princess of Tsurugi", "Fire Sorcerer", "Needle Ball", "Des Koala", and "Lady Assailant of Flames".

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against "Jigen Bakudan". You don’t activate "Barrel Behind the Door" when the Flip Effect activates, you activate "Barrel Behind the Door" when "Jigen Bakudan" activates its effect during the next Standby Phase to inflict damage.

"Barrel Behind the Door" cannot be activated against cards that do not inflict damage when the card resolves, such as "Graverobber", which inflicts damage later.

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against "Ring of Destruction", and then your opponent will take all of the damage (the damage inflicted to him and the damage that would have been inflicted to you). The same is true for "Tremendous Fire".

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against "Magic Cylinder". The attack will be negated and the damage transferred to the opponent.

You cannot activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against effects if you don’t know for certain that they will inflict damage when the effect is activated. So you cannot activate it against "Dice Jar", "Judgment of Anubis", "Time Wizard" or "Ante". Your cannot activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against "Ceasefire" if all monsters on the field are face-down, or if all monsters on the field are face-up Normal Monsters, but you can activate it against "Ceasefire" if there is at least 1 face-up Effect Monster on the field.

You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" during the Damage Step against appropriate effects, such as "Princess of Tsurugi", because it is a Counter-Trap.

Remember that the effects that Counter-Traps are chained to must immediately precede them in the chain. So if you activate "Ring of Destruction", and intend to chain "Barrel Behind the Door" to it, if your opponent chains something in-between (even an unrelated effect like "Jar of Greed"), then you cannot chain "Barrel Behind the Door" because "Ring of Destruction" is no longer the preceding step in the chain.

If one player’s "Giant Germ" attacks another "Giant Germ" so that both effects activating during the Damage Step, they form a chain. If both players control "Barrel Behind the Door, only 1 player can chain theirs. The turn player will be able to chain "Barrel Behind the Door" to the opponent’s "Giant Germ" because it is Step 2 of the chain.

If "Bad Reaction to Simochi" is active, you can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against effects that would normally cause a Life Point increase, because they inflict damage instead.

If you re-direct damage to your opponent using "Barrel Behind the Door", and you have "Dark Room of Nightmare" on the field, then "Dark Room of Nightmare" inflicts 300 more damage.

For effects like "Princess of Tsurugi" "Thunder Crash", and "Restructer Revolution", where damage is added up, "Barrel Behind the Door" re-directs the entire sum of damage.

I'm just curious. Was that a typo, or did you really believe that. Because there are threads on this site that say otherwise, and the official website explains how to use the card.

Basically, you can't chain to LP payments, Battle Damage, Continuous Spell/Trap/Effect cards that do damage (since there really is no trigger opportunity to make this card counter), and variable damage.

You'd think that Fire Princess and Lava Golem are mixed up- it really doesn't make that much sense to me either, but that's what the "official" ruling states. Who am I to argue with the official rulings...

chears people that realy helped.


It thought the wall of revealing light/BBtD combo was a little to good to be true.