Dark World Lightning

Edison Card Text
Select 1 face-down card on the field and destroy it, and after that, select 1 card from your hand and discard it.
Champion Pack: Game Three • 2007-05-15
Targets
Note: the first part of the effect
No Damage Step effect
Banlist • Unlimited
Interactions
Does Dark World Lightning make Geartown miss timing?!
Dark World Lightning destroys Geartown and then makes you discard.
Yes. Geartown is not the last thing to happen, so it misses timing.
Can Stardust Dragon negate Dark World Lightning?!
Dark World Lightning is activated to destroy a set card.
Yes. The destruction is guaranteed on activation, so Stardust Dragon can negate it.
Rulings
edisonformat.net
●The card targeted by “Dark World Lightning” must be face-down when “Dark World Lightning” resolves in order to be destroyed. If you target a face-down Spell or Trap Card, and the opponent activates it in a chain, then it won't be destroyed by “Dark World Lightning”. If you target a face-down monster, and it is flipped up in a chain by a card effect before “Dark World Lighting” resolves, the monster is not destroyed.
●If you don't destroy the targeted face-down card with the effect of “Dark World Lightning” (such as if it is face-up as resolution, or if it is destroyed by another effect first), you don't discard 1 card from your hand.
●You can't activate this card if you have no other cards in your hand. If an effect is chained to “Dark World Lightning” that makes you discard all the cards in your hand, then the face-down target of “Dark World Lightning” will still be destroyed, even though you can't discard 1 card.
●Discarding 1 card is part of the effect of “Dark World Lightning”, it is not a cost. (So you can use it to activate the effects of “Dark World” monsters, for example.)
edisonformat.com
The card targeted by “Dark World Lightning” must be face-down when “Dark World Lightning” resolves in order to be destroyed. If you target a face-down Spell or Trap Card, and the opponent activates it in a chain, then it will not be destroyed by “Dark World Lightning”. If you target a face-down monster, and it is flipped up in a chain by a card effect before “Dark World Lighting” resolves, the monster is not destroyed.
If you do not destroy the targeted face-down card with the effect of “Dark World Lightning” (such as if it is face-up as resolution, or if it is destroyed by another effect first), you do NOT discard 1 card from your hand.
You cannot activate this card if you have no other cards in your hand. If an effect is chained to “Dark World Lightning” that makes you discard all the cards in your hand, then the face-down target of “Dark World Lightning” will still be destroyed, even though you cannot discard 1 card.
Discarding 1 card is part of the effect of “Dark World Lightning”, it is not a cost. (So you can use it to activate the effects of “Dark World” monsters, for example.)
"DARK WORLD" monsters
(“Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World”, “Broww, Huntsman of Dark World”, “Sillva, Warlord of Dark World” and “Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World”).
(1) If this card is discarded from the hand to the Graveyard by a card effect, [perform action 1]. (1) If this card is discarded from the hand to the Graveyard by an opponent’s card effect, [perform action 2].
These effects will not miss timing, they are mandatory effects.
If discarded by a card effect in the middle of a chain, or in the middle of a card effect like “Dragged Down into the Grave”, these effects will activate after the current chain resolves.
"Dark World" monsters only meet their trigger condition when they are '
discarded
' to the Graveyard.
These effects activate in the Graveyard, so “Skill Drain” will not negate their effects.
These effects can activate in the Damage Step, if discarded by the effect “Don Zaloog”.
"Dark World" monsters DO NOT activate when:
discarded as a cost. They only activate when discarded by [resolving a] card effect.
they are removed from play instead of going to the Graveyard (by "Dimensional Fissure").
they are '
sent
' (as opposed to '
discarded
') to the Graveyard by a card effect.
The (1) Trigger Effect of a "Dark World" monster discarded by your card effect produces a single Chain Link which would [perform action 1].
If the (1) Trigger Effect is activated when discarded by the effect of an opponent’s card, both parts of the effect resolves in a single chain link.
If “Divine Wrath” is chained to these effects, it will negate both parts.