Stone#
If an action is modified by Clan Loyalty :
1/ Can the action only be masked by a vampire of the same clan?
2/ With the 2003-05-19 RTR ruling on mask, would the CL effect carry over
the mask, reversing the specifing ruling on clan loyalty?
rulings and card text included below for reference.
thanks,
Stone
Latest ruling on Clan Loyalty: Modifies only the acting minion, not the
action, and would not carry over through a Mask of a Thousand Faces
modifier. [TOM 19951214]
Clan Loyalty card text :
Clan Loyalty [DS:C2, FN:PG]
Cardtype: Action Modifier
Cost: 1 blood
Only usable when this vampire is successfully blocked by a vampire of the
same clan (play before combat).
Cancel the block and combat. The action continues as normal, and no
vampires
of that clan may block the acting vampire for the remainder of the turn.
2003-05-19 RTR ruling :
Mask of a Thousand Faces (REVERSAL): All effects that had been applied to
the action or the acting minion carry over as if they had been applied with
the Masker as the acting minion. The standing rule that "Mask cannot be used
to mask an action if the Masking vampire is not capable of taking that
action, nor if any action modifiers have been played on this action that
could not have been played if the Masking vampire were the acting minion.
(Not counting blood that has already been spent.)" still applies, and it
applies to other effects as well. So if Backways is tapped to give the
acting Gangrel a stealth, then non-Gangrel cannot mask the action. If
Redirection is used at inferior by a 7 capacity vampire, then vampires with
capacity of 7 or more cannot mask the action (since they are not younger
than the reacting vampire). And so on. Draba or Veiled Sight vs. Mask of a
Thousand Faces (REVERSAL): The stealth reduction of Draba and Veiled Sight
carries over at the same level as before the mask. The two effects can be
treated as equivalent to "-X stealth" where X is (was) the current amount of
stealth of the action, with the X unchanged by the play of the mask.