Effect
When your opponent activates a Spell/Trap Card, or monster effect, by paying their Life Points: Negate the activation, and if you do, return it to the Deck.
You can activate this card during the Damage Step.
This effect does not target.
This effect is activated by chaining directly to the activation of an opponent's monster effect that requires paying Life Points as a cost to activate, or the activation of an opponent's Spell/Trap Card that requires paying Life Points as a cost to activate. (It cannot be activated by chaining to the activation of a Spell/Trap effect.)
It cannot be activated by chaining to an effect that requires paying Life Points when the effect resolves.
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