In article <01bedc4b$13a08f20$59caf7a5@wyld>, Matthew Heslin
<hes...@sprynet.com> writes
>1) In order for the Stake damage to become agg.,
>does the "more than one damage" have to occur
>in a single combat, or in a single round?
>
It doesn't deal agg damage, it sends to torpor in the re-write, in an
effort to work like the paralysis rules.
"Melee Weapon. This weapon inflicts strength damage as a strike. If more
than damage is inflicted on the opposing vampire by this weapon in a
given combat, then that vampire is sent to torpor. In that case, this
card is transferred to him and he does not untap as normal during the
untap phase as long as he remains in torpor."
>2) My Stake-wielding minion is opposed by a
>vamp with one blood. I strike with the Stake,
>my opponent strikes with hands. I then strike
>with superior Blur, Staking the crap out of them.
>I believe the opposing minion is burned,
No, because of the above.
Also, the agg damage rules as they now stand would not burn the vampire
even if Wooden Stake were written as it used to be, in the situation you
give.
Your strike with the Stake would reduce them to zero blood. Your
superior blur would be redundant. The first strike would (were it not
for the re-write) have given you agg damage and resolved then. The
first point of agg damage would send them to torpor. Now, because
they're on their way to torpor, you'd need another point of damage to
burn them. The superior blur doesn't do that, since you haven't got to
your second additional strike, which resolves sequentially, not in
parallel.
>but does
>the Stake go with the minion, since it is "given
>to the minion after use?"
Moot. The Stake would be transferred, since the vampire has not been
burned.
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