card guard is summon, it move a counter to mist valley falcon, then he declare attack. Card guard first then falcon second, falcon return card guard. Question is will the guard counter protect falcon even without card guard face-up on the field ? My opponent said even without card guard, it still get protect from destroy. But it sound quite strange, because it remind me about spell counter which is useless unless you have the monster to activate the effect.
I tried to check ruling but nothing come out in the wikia.
