Merging Jack Dawson

If I have advanced Jack Dawson in play, and I merge him, does basic Jack Dawson's text trigger (allowing me to equip him with a weapon card from my hand)? Jack Dawson Independent: When you move Jack from your uncontrolled region to your ready region, you may equip him with a weapon card from your hand (pay the cost to equip as normal). I would say no, because moving to the ready region would imply moving the vampire (which is not the case; the card is physically moved, but the vampire is already in the ready region). -- Bye, Daneel

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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:17:13 GMT, LSJ <vtesr...@TRAPwhite-wolf.com> wrote: > Daneel wrote: >> If I have advanced Jack Dawson in play, and I merge him, does basic >> Jack Dawson's text trigger (allowing me to equip him with a weapon card >> from my hand)? >> >> Jack Dawson >> Independent: When you move Jack from your uncontrolled region to your >> ready region, you may equip him with a weapon card from your hand (pay >> the cost to equip as normal). >> >> I would say no, because moving to the ready region would imply moving >> the vampire (which is not the case; the card is physically moved, but >> the vampire is already in the ready region). > > Correct. Thanks for the expedient affirmation! So basically if he is merged from Advanced he gets nothing from the merge, right? Well, in practice this probably means that if you actually want to use Jack Advanced, you are more likely better off using only him, and relying on Disguised Weapon as an enabler instead of his basic version... Otherwise you'd end up with a crypt like 6×each to make sure you draw both versions ASAP. -- Bye, Daneel

In message <ops18jdq...@news.chello.hu>, Daneel <dan...@eposta.hu> writes: >So basically if he is merged from Advanced he gets nothing from the merge, > right? Well, in practice this probably means that if you actually want to > use Jack Advanced, you are more likely better off using only him, and > relying on Disguised Weapon as an enabler instead of his basic version... > Otherwise you'd end up with a crypt like 6×each to make sure you draw > both versions ASAP. Gift of Experience could help out. If you had, for some reason, a deck that wanted a couple of different vampires merged but heavily preferred one level to the other, you could pack in a few Gifts of Experience to try and speed things along. e.g. a 5/1 or 4/2 split between the preferred and less-preferred levels, six of each vampire, total crypt of 12. -- James Coupe PGP Key: 0x5D623D5D YOU ARE IN ERROR. EBD690ECD7A1FB457CA2 NO-ONE IS SCREAMING. 13D7E668C3695D623D5D THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.