Shane Travis#
Jeff Dai (jd...@gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca) wrote:
: Another bizzare occurance. Rare but it did happen.
: My grand prey had brought out Wynn and put hoards of ugly things on him.
: My prey decided this was a bad thing and called a Hostile Takeover (if
: this the one where you bid for the vampire, it's the one I'm talking
: about). I ended up winning the bidding and Wynn came over to my active
: region.
: My question is can you play legendary vampire on Wynn? I don't have the
: card in front of me but I remember it saying that you can only use it if
: the vampire comes into "your" active region last turn or something to
: that effect.
I would have to say that based on the strict wording of the card this was
not a legal move;
Legendary Vampire Master 2 pool
UNIQUE MASTER. Choose a vampire with a capacity above 6 who was moved
into your active region during your last turn. Put this card on that
vampire. He or she gets +2 bleed and an additional 2 votes. This card
may be burned by a vote called by any vampire as a +1 stealth action.
The key phrase here is 'during your last turn'. The Hostile Takeover
could not have happened on your turn; it must have been played during
someone else's turn, and thus Wynn could not have entered your active
region on your last turn.
Although _this_ situation is illegal, I cna think of an analogous one
which would work fine under a literal interpretation of the card;
superior version of Grave Robbing.
Grave Robbing Action Dominate
Normal: (D) Take a vampire from any torpor to your own torpor. You now
control the vampire.
Superior: (D) As above, but by paying 2 blood from the acting vampire
you can take the vampire into your controlled region.
According to my version of the rules, controlled region and active region
are synonymous terms. Therefore, had you GR'd a 6+ capacity vampire, he
would now be eligible for Legendary status.
(Sorry Tom, but I'm totally ignoring your ruling in this case about what
was 'meant to be said' on Legendary Vampire. What you ruled is _not_ what
the card says and until I see official Rules Team Errata to the card (and
maybe even not then) I will play the card as written. Players cannot be
expected to read the designers' minds and ascertain what you meant to say
on each card; we can only play them as written. As written, the above
scenario works fine.)
Shane H.W. Travis | Galbraith's Law of Human Nature: Faced with the
tra...@duke.usask.ca | choice between changing one's mind and proving
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | that there is no need to do so, almost everybody
| gets busy on the proof.