Combat timing

I have a silly, nagging question... I understand how combat works butt I'm not sure about other cards such as The Spawning Pool... I mean, it's pretty ambiguous about when you can apply the damage. Can you tap the card immediately in the second round of combat or is it resolved along with the other damage during resoloution? Thanks, Ken

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How about this one: An action being blocked is modified with Dawn Operation, causing all damage done in the proceeding combat to be aggravated. Combat begins and a Weather Control is thrown. Both players take a point of aggravated, non - preventable damage, immediately. Do we even get to the strike phase? Will strike: combat ends help? Can Merril Molitor, Skin of Night, or Heart of Darkness change (not prevent) the aggravated to normal? Depending of the response, one might consider this to be a possible 'degenerate' deck. Though, I would be hard put to come up with twenty Dawn Operations (it's not restricted to six, last time I heard). Zach

Zach Dennis <denn...@osu.edu> writes: >How about this one: > An action being blocked is modified with Dawn Operation, causing all >damage done in the proceeding combat to be aggravated. Combat begins and >a Weather Control is thrown. Both players take a point of aggravated, >non - preventable damage, immediately. >Do we even get to the strike phase? No. >Will strike: combat ends help? Can't be played until strike phase. >Can Merril Molitor, Skin of Night, >or Heart of Darkness change (not prevent) the aggravated to normal? Yes. >Depending of the response, one might consider this to be a possible >'degenerate' deck. Though, I would be hard put to come up with twenty >Dawn Operations (it's not restricted to six, last time I heard). I've played against it. It's just another deck (although it thrashed the Fortitude Bruise&Bleed deck I was playing, for obvious reasons). Curt Adams (curt...@aol.com)

Zach Dennis <denn...@osu.edu> writes: >How about this one: > An action being blocked is modified with Dawn Operation, causing all >damage done in the proceeding combat to be aggravated. Combat begins and >a Weather Control is thrown. Both players take a point of aggravated, >non - preventable damage, immediately. Do we even get to the strike >phase? Will strike: combat ends help? Can Merril Molitor, Skin of Night, >or Heart of Darkness change (not prevent) the aggravated to normal? Strike phase: No. Strike: Combat Ends: No. Merrill, NightSkin, DarkHeart: Yes. >Depending of the response, one might consider this to be a possible >'degenerate' deck. Though, I would be hard put to come up with twenty >Dawn Operations (it's not restricted to six, last time I heard). That, and few vampires have superior fortitude and thaumaturgy inherently. -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | Clap on! <clap> <clap> http://www.math.sc.edu/~sjohnson | Clap off! <clap> <cla+W." Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. | ^Ejq#xe>4NO CARRIER

L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.scarolina.edu) wrote: : Zach Dennis <denn...@osu.edu> writes: : >a Weather Control is thrown. Both players take a point of aggravated, : >non - preventable damage, immediately. Do we even get to the strike : >phase? Will strike: combat ends help? Can Merril Molitor, Skin of Night, : >or Heart of Darkness change (not prevent) the aggravated to normal? : : Strike phase: No. : Strike: Combat Ends: No. : Merrill, NightSkin, DarkHeart: Yes. Note that if both vamps prevent/redirect the damage as described (One Merril, One nightskin, for example) then combat _will_ continue. Joe -- Joe Helfrich, Managing Editor, CPI | Certainly the games is rigged. Don't j...@dimensional.com | let that stop you; if you don't bet, http://www.dimensional.com/~jbh | you can't win. --Lazarus Long *** Dum vivimus, vivamus! (While we live, let us _live_!) ***