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Activate
Trigger【Activate】An activated ability with a cost, used at Main or Action timing.
Played in the meta
Most-played 【Activate】 cards in GD04 meta decks.
Cards with Activate
58 total
How 【Activate】 works
【Activate･Main】 and 【Activate･Action】 effects are abilities you choose to use at the stated timing, paying whatever cost precedes the effect — most often resting the card, sometimes discarding or paying resources. The card text's cost-colon-effect structure tells you exactly what you spend and what you get.
Unlike triggered effects (【Deploy】, 【Attack】, 【Destroyed】), an Activate effect never fires on its own — and unless it says 【Once per Turn】, you can use it as many times as you can pay for it.