Change of Target question

What happens when I play a Change of Target when I'm doing a mandatory Hunt? -- "Live Life with Heart." Alan Kwan kw...@cs.cornell.edu

kw...@cs.cornell.edu (Alan Kwan) writes: >What happens when I play a Change of Target when I'm doing >a mandatory Hunt? You untap. You cannot attempt the same action again (card text). You can only hunt (DTR). Therefore, the vampire is stuck, untapped. Methuselah is free to take another action with a different minion. From the Complete Rules' Outline: C. MINION PHASE (optional) [12.3] The Minion phase is mandatory if you have a ready untapped Vampire with zero blood capable of hunting. [TOM] NOTE: Any untapped Minion may take any one of the following actions. Each Minion's Action is resolved before the next Minion Action begins. A Minion is capable of starting the next action any time he is not tapped. [12.3.1] An untapped Minion is not required to take an Action. EXCEPTION: any time one or more of your ready Vampires is not tapped and has zero blood and is not prevented from hunting, your next Minion Action must be to hunt with one of those Vampires. [TOM]

>What happens when I play a Change of Target when I'm doing >a mandatory Hunt? Your minion freezes that turns, as with Talbot's Chainsaw. His required action is prohibited. Curt Adams (curt...@aol.com)

pech...@nunki.usc.edu (gomi no sensei) writes: >In article <1995Mar16.0...@cs.cornell.edu>, >Alan Kwan <kw...@cs.cornell.edu> wrote: >/begin quote/ >What happens when I play a Change of Target when I'm doing a mandatory Hunt? >/end quote/ >Say Igo's empty. At the beginning of your minion phase, the first thing you >must do is send Igo a-huntin' (I assume this is the sort of thing you had in >mind by 'mandatory Hunt.') Since Igo, poor hungry schlep that he is, has no >stealth, he gets blocked by some random vampire. You play Change of Target. >Igo untaps and cannot hunt this turn. My solution to the forced hunt/cannot >hunt dilemma would be to say that the attempt to hunt has satisfied the rule >enforcing hunts; while Igo may not take any other actions this turn, you may >freely take any other actions you desire, including hunt, with your minions. An empty vampire (no blood) which cannot hunt is forbidden from taking *any* action [DTR].