Ability disabling not working
If my opponents abilities are disabled by my monster how do they continue to use abilities im highly confused with this legendary card
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[Deleted User] commented
Linvala only stops ACTIVATED abilities from being ACTIVATED. Your opponent's creatures have TRIGGERED abilities, which TRIGGER when a certain event occurs. Linvala does not interact with triggered abilities.
An activated ability always has the template [cost]:[effect]. The colon is a dead give away, and absolutely nessessary. For keyword abilities, the template can be found in the rules for them. Activated abilities are deliberately activated by players.
Triggered abilities always use the words "when", "whenever", or "at" and the phrase that follows that word describes the trigger condition. Triggered abilities go off when an event matches the trigger condition. No player gets any say in that.