rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Succubus Club + Ash Heap (was Compel the Spirit)

2 messages from 2 participants · 27 March 2001
original thread on Google Groups

Robert Franklin Grau

LSJ wrote: > > Robert Franklin Grau wrote: > > > I don't think you could even use the succubus club to "trade" ash heaps > > because (my understanding is that) the ash heap would revert back to > > it's rightful owner as soon as the trade is completed. > > You cannot use SC to trade ash heaps because you can't - the ash heap is > not composed of pool, cards in your hand, nor cards in play. SC can only > enable the trade of those three things. Hmmm. I thought the Ash Heap fell into the third category "cards in play." Here is my reasoning: The rule book doesn't specify if the Ash Heap is in play or not. The closest I can find is part of the definition of "burn" in section 1.1.2: " Sometimes, an instruction may say to remove a card from the game. While some cards and effects can retrieve cards from the ash heap, cards that are removed from the game cannot be retrieved or affected in any way. " This establishes two categories of burnt/used cards: "in the Ash Heap" and "removed from the game" I suppose you're going to tell me that "removed from play" and "removed from game" mean different things, but I've seen them used interchangably. As an example, I cite the online card text for Golconda: Golconda: Inner Peace [Jyhad, V:TES] Master. Only usable on a vampire with a capacity above 7. {Remove the vampire from play}. His or her controller gains pool equal to the vampire's capacity. The controller may cancel this card by burning 2 pool. In the end, I assume that if something is not "removed from play" and is a card, that it qualifies to be traded through the Succubus club as a "card in play" Since this is not the case, please inform me where my logic went awry. Rob Grau rfg...@eos.ncsu.edu

LSJ

Robert Franklin Grau wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] Cards in the ash heap are not in play. Your logic is fine, just based on bad assumptions. "In play" is equivalent to "controlled by some Methuselah". Section 4.1 hints at this: A yielded card is burned whereas two copies of a unique card "in play" contest each other. If a burned card were still "in play", Sensory Deprivation would be overly powerful. Golconda's errata'ed card text is in error in the official list - the errata'ed text says that the vampire is removed from the game [RTR 23-JUN-1998]. I'll correct the online text ASAP. If there are other instances of "removed from play" being improperly used as "removed from the game", please let me know. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and tournament rules: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/