Quick Question

My vamp has a flak jacket and is in combat. The other vamp hand strikes for 1 at close range. My vamp uses Breath of the Dragon (at inferior). Can my vamp use the flak jacket to stop the aggro damage, or must the flak jacket be used to stop the hand strike damage first? Thanks, in advance. Jaysen JOL85

> Can my vamp use the flak jacket to stop the aggro damage, or must the flak > jacket be used to stop the hand strike damage first? Card Title: Flak Jacket Blood/Pool: 1 pool Clan/Discip.: n/a Card Type: Equipment Card Text: Flak Jacket prevents 1 damage each combat to the minion with this equipment. Since it doesn't limit the source of the damage (as opposed to Leather Jacket), I'd say that the Flak Jacket can be used to prevent the damage from the Breath of the Dragon strike. Noal -- "The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!" -Ashleigh Brilliant -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own

jay...@compusmart.ab.ca wrote: > My vamp has a flak jacket and is in combat. > The other vamp hand strikes for 1 at close range. > My vamp uses Breath of the Dragon (at inferior). > > Can my vamp use the flak jacket to stop the aggro damage, or must the flak > jacket be used to stop the hand strike damage first? You can use the Jacket to prevent any one point of the damage - you don't have to prevent the "first" point. -- LSJ (vte...@wizards.com) VTES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and DCI (tournament) rules: http://www.wizards.com/VTES/VTES_Rules.html [ quoted text not captured ]

>Since it doesn't limit the source of the damage (as opposed to Leather >Jacket), I'd say that the Flak Jacket can be used to prevent the damage from >the Breath of the Dragon strike. True, but the rules also state that whenever a vampire takes both agg. and normal damage, the normal damage is taken care of first, which I would interpret as saying that you have to prevent any normal damage taken before you prevent the agg. -ru

> True, but the rules also state that whenever a vampire takes both agg. and > normal damage, the normal damage is taken care of first, which I would > interpret as saying that you have to prevent any normal damage taken before > you prevent the agg. Incorrect. Note LSJ's reply. While the normal damage is applied first, you have complete freedom to choose which damage you prevent and which you do not, unless restricted by card text (i.e. prevent damage from a strike) Noal McDonald Michigan Jyhad League -- "The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!" -Ashleigh Brilliant -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- [ quoted text not captured ]

dhar...@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > True, but the rules also state that whenever a vampire takes both agg. and > > normal damage, the normal damage is taken care of first, which I would > > interpret as saying that you have to prevent any normal damage taken before > > you prevent the agg. > > Incorrect. Note LSJ's reply. > > While the normal damage is applied first, you have complete freedom to choose > which damage you prevent and which you do not, unless restricted by card text > (i.e. prevent damage from a strike) Correct. The damage (in this example) is all applied simultaneously. The vampire taking the damage can then prevent any one point of it (or, if he chooses, none of it) with the Flak Jacket. After all prevention effects are applies, the rest of the damage is "successfully inflicted", and "handled" - healed or whatever. The normal damage is "handled" first, then the aggravated damage. See section 6.4.6 for clarifications. -- LSJ (vte...@wizards.com) VTES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and DCI (tournament) rules: http://www.wizards.com/VTES/VTES_Rules.html -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- [ quoted text not captured ]