Hi,
Something came up the other day when one player had a deploy the hand
marker on him and he had the edge.
He decided to keep it until his untap phase at least thus gaining the
edge but having a vampire take a loss of 2 blood. But along the line
someone was bled successfully. This is where our uncertainty came.
Can he then M:TG style answer that action by burning the edge and thus
removing his counter and avoid the effects of the hand.
Or does he need to burn it before the action is declared or somewhere
along the line of the action but before it resolves?
This question is actually the same for all burn the edge to remove x
from game. When is it ok to burn the edge for an effect. I think that
I have seen a ruling similar to this somewhere else but I can not
recollect where.
On Feb 5, 8:47 am, Berk <patrik.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something came up the other day when one player had a deploy the hand
> marker on him and he had the edge.
>
> He decided to keep it until his untap phase at least thus gaining the
> edge but having a vampire take a loss of 2 blood. But along the line
> someone was bled successfully. This is where our uncertainty came.
>
> Can he then M:TG style answer that action by burning the edge and thus
> removing his counter and avoid the effects of the hand.
>
> Or does he need to burn it before the action is declared or somewhere
> along the line of the action but before it resolves?
There's no MtG-style response stack involved. He simply burns it when
it is his impulse (and it will have to be his impulse at some time to
decline to block or to play post-decline-to-block bounce or pre-or-
post-block reduction).
> This question is actually the same for all burn the edge to remove x
> from game. When is it ok to burn the edge for an effect. I think that
> I have seen a ruling similar to this somewhere else but I can not
> recollect where.
No ruling needed. The effects can be applied whenever the Methuselah
has the impulse, subject to any additional timing restrictions given
in card text.
*Impulse: A convenient term for "the opportunity to play the next
effect".
> He decided to keep it until his untap phase at least thus gaining the
> edge but having a vampire take a loss of 2 blood. But along the line
> someone was bled successfully.
And actually, I am pretty sure that player (if he still had the edge
at the beginning of his turn) could gain the pool then burn the edge.
Thus not having to take the two unpreventable damage from Deploy the
Hand!