NRA rules with The Portrait

Hello all, a question that came up during friendly play some days ago: The Portrait [AH, CE] Cardtype: Action Clan: Toreador Cost: 1 blood (D) Show the top card of your prey's crypt to all players. If it is a Nosferatu, the acting vampire burns 2 blood. If the capacity of the revealed vampire is below 7, the acting vampire gains 2 blood (ignore excess blood); if it is from 7 to 10, the acting vampire untaps and bleeds your prey with +1 bleed at +1 stealth; if it is above 10, the acting vampire burns 1 blood. If a vampire has already bled his prey in a turn and somehow manages to untap, is he then allowed to use The Portrait (which may or may not result in another bleed)? I ruled that yes, this was permissible, but if conditions had led to a second bleed, that would have fizzled because of the NRA rule for bleeds. Regards, Hardy Range Prince of Bochum

Hardy Range wrote: > If a vampire has already bled his prey in a turn and somehow manages > to untap, is he then allowed to use The Portrait (which may or may not > result in another bleed)? Yes. > I ruled that yes, this was permissible, but if conditions had led to a > second bleed, that would have fizzled because of the NRA rule for > bleeds. If it leads to another bleed, then the minion simply remains untapped; he doesn't take the prohibited bleed action at all, so it doesn't exactly "fizzle". -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/