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I am new to jyhad and have a question concerning the master phase. a friend of mine typically has 3 short-term investments on the board at a time and as part of his master phase he removes one counter from each to add 3 blood to his pool. My interperetation of the rules is that he could only move from one short term investment as his master phase action, since moving three would require 3 master phase actions. Any help would be appreciated. Also I am used to magic where there is a 4 card (of one type) limit, are there any such standard card limiting conventions for Jyhad? Thanks again, Nathan Carbino ncar...@ptc.com -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet

ncar...@ptc.com wrote: > > I am new to jyhad and have a question concerning the master phase. > a friend of mine typically has 3 short-term investments on the board > at a time and as part of his master phase he removes one counter from > each to add 3 blood to his pool. My interperetation of the rules is > that he could only move from one short term investment as his master > phase action, since moving three would require 3 master phase actions. You are correct. Unless you have more than one Master Phase Action (using Anson, Rumors of Gehenna, and/or the Parthenon), you can only move a blood off of *one* of your investments (instead of playing *one* master card). > Also I am used to magic where there is a 4 card (of one type) limit, > are there any such standard card limiting conventions for Jyhad? No. VtES / Jyhad was designed for unlimited card resources. -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@regency.wizards.com) Official VtES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. (*) - Subject to review by Rules Team

ncar...@ptc.com wrote: > > I am new to jyhad and have a question concerning the master phase. > a friend of mine typically has 3 short-term investments on the board > at a time and as part of his master phase he removes one counter from > each to add 3 blood to his pool. My interperetation of the rules is > that he could only move from one short term investment as his master > phase action, since moving three would require 3 master phase actions. The way to think about this is exactly what you said: during each master phase, you get one (and only one) master phase action. You can use this action to play a master card, or to do an effect (like take 1 blood off of _one_ Short Term). > Also I am used to magic where there is a 4 card (of one type) limit, > are there any such standard card limiting conventions for Jyhad? No. There is no official card limit, though many groups play with CL as a house rule. At some point, groups decide that they need some sort of house rule to stop degenerate decks. There are two main options: * Card Limits, ranging from 3CL to 6CL * Golden Tenets: - No Repeat Actions - No Vote Pushing (i.e., only 1 Political Action card played per Political Action by each player). I personally prefer the latter, and it is a modification of the latter which is the official DCI tournament rule. James -- James E. Hamblin je...@cornell.edu "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. ... Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." -- G'Kar, Babylon 5: "Z'ha'dum"