Can you use Master Yi Honed's charm ability to pull an enemy unit into your battlefield, kill it, and then gank to another battlefield?

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Yes — you can pull an enemy unit into your battlefield with Charm, kill it, and then use Master Yi - Honed’s Ganking permission to move him to another battlefield, provided timing and readiness conditions are met.

You may move an enemy unit to your battlefield with Charm, kill it, and then perform Master Yi - Honed’s battlefield-to-battlefield Standard Move (Ganking) as long as you perform the Standard Move during your Main Phase, Master Yi - Honed is ready so you can exhaust him to pay the cost, you are not in a Showdown or Combat when you attempt the Standard Move, and the destination battlefield is legal to move to. If any of those conditions fail (for example the kill occurs in Combat, or Master Yi - Honed is exhausted), you cannot pay for the Standard Move and therefore cannot gank after the kill.

Play Charm to move an enemy unit onto a battlefield you control (Charm resolves and the enemy unit is moved). Kill that enemy unit by whatever means (so long as the kill does not itself create a Showdown/Combat window that prevents Main Phase actions). If still in your Main Phase, and Master Yi - Honed is ready, declare his Standard Move and exhaust him to pay its cost. Choose a legal destination battlefield (not one forbidden by occupancy or an ongoing qualifying Combat) and move Master Yi - Honed there using his Ganking permission.

If the kill happens during Combat or the game is currently in a Showdown/Combat state, you cannot perform the Standard Move because Standard Moves can’t be done during Combat or Showdowns [144.1.c]. If Master Yi - Honed is exhausted at the time you try to move him, you cannot pay the cost (exhaust him) and therefore cannot perform the Standard Move [144.2]. If the destination battlefield already has units from two other players or has an ongoing Combat with two other players, you cannot move there [144.4.a.1]. If the effect that 'kills' the pulled unit instead sends it to a non-board zone (banish, hand, etc.), interactions that depend on the unit being on the board or its Might may change; ensure the kill actually occurs as a board death and is not replaced by a non-board-zone effect [359.3.e.12]. If some replacement effect (for example a card like Highlander if it applied) prevents the unit from dying and instead recalls it, that changes the outcome — recall is explicitly not a move [Highlander text], so your expected kill might not happen.

Ganking on Master Yi - Honed is a passive permission that lets the unit use its Standard Move to move from one battlefield to another [810.1.b]. Standard Moves can be performed any time during your Main Phase [144.1.a], but they cannot be performed during a Showdown or Combat [144.1.c]. The cost to perform a Standard Move is exhausting the unit performing it [144.2]. Therefore, after you use Charm to move an enemy unit into your battlefield and you kill that unit, you may then perform Master Yi - Honed’s battlefield-to-battlefield Standard Move (gank) provided all of these are true: it is still your Main Phase [144.1.a], you are not in a Showdown or Combat [144.1.c], Master Yi - Honed is ready so you can exhaust him to pay the cost [144.2], and the destination battlefield is legal to move to (for example, it is not occupied by units from two other players or an ongoing Combat with two other players) [144.4.a.1] [144.4.c.1]. If any of those conditions fail — for example the kill occurred in Combat (so you are in Combat and cannot Standard Move), or Master Yi - Honed is already exhausted and cannot be exhausted again to pay the move cost — then you cannot gank after the kill. Also watch for replacement effects that change a 'death' into a recall or move to a non-board zone; those will alter whether the kill occurred or how the game state changes and may affect follow-up actions [359.3.e.12].