Please help with a local rules debate:
When in combat, do you have to delcare modifiers to strikes (ie, Wolf Claws)
during combat, or can one defer mentioning them until damage assessment?
ie, Dollface and Kallista are fighting. Dollface declares a straight strike.
Kallista plans to use Wolf Claws to torporize Dollface. Does Kallista have to
declare a strike "with Wolf Claws", or can she declare a straight strike,
hoping Dollface won't attept to dodge, and in damage resolution say "my strike
was with wolf claws, by the way"
A friend claims that you don't have to declare such modifiers because
one "wouldn't be able to see that her opponent has wolf claws". I maintain
that modifiers must be declared during combat.
Who's right?
Thanks,
Jake
Before I could do anything to stop it, Jacob A Hester wrote:
> When in combat, do you have to delcare modifiers to strikes (ie, Wolf Claws)
> during combat, or can one defer mentioning them until damage assessment?
> ie, Dollface and Kallista are fighting. Dollface declares a straight strike.
> Kallista plans to use Wolf Claws to torporize Dollface. Does Kallista have to
> declare a strike "with Wolf Claws", or can she declare a straight strike,
> hoping Dollface won't attept to dodge, and in damage resolution say "my strike
> was with wolf claws, by the way"
Wolf Claws is not a strike card, so you can declare your strike as a hand
strike. When your opponent declares a strike that is not a Dodge or
Combat Ends, you can then whip out your claws.
Note that you must play the claws *before* strike resolution, but after
your strike is declared.
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Wolf Claws can be played at any point before the appropriate strike
resolution step, and have its normal effect. This means that the acting
minion can wait to see whether the blocking minion blocks or not
before deciding whether to use Wolf Claws. Same goes for Claws of
the Dead, etc.
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Thomas R Wylie (aa...@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
> Wolf Claws can be played at any point before the appropriate strike
> resolution step, and have its normal effect. This means that the acting
> minion can wait to see whether the blocking minion blocks or not
> before deciding whether to use Wolf Claws. Same goes for Claws of
> the Dead, etc.
TOM!!! I realize you're in the process of switching jobs, etc.
(congrats, btw), but you'll have to be a bit more clear on this one. :)
I'll rephrase the question:
During combat, if I'm the acting minion, can I declare my strike as
"hands" and then wait to see if the blocking minion declares a "strike:
dodge" before using my wolf claws or my claws of the dead to modify my
strike to aggravated damage?
Thanks,
-ben
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Before I could do anything to stop it, matt...@utdallas.edu wrote:
> I'll rephrase the question:> During combat, if I'm the acting minion, can I declare my strike as
> "hands" and then wait to see if the blocking minion declares a "strike:
> dodge" before using my wolf claws or my claws of the dead to modify my
> strike to aggravated damage?
Tom's answer is still going to be "yes."
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<matt...@utdallas.edu> wrote:
>During combat, if I'm the acting minion, can I declare my strike as
>"hands" and then wait to see if the blocking minion declares a "strike:
>dodge" before using my wolf claws or my claws of the dead to modify my
>strike to aggravated damage?
Yes.
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