Freak Drive vs Voter Cap

Came up in a game yesterday: I complete a succesfull vote and play Freak Drive on the acting minion. I replace the card and top-deck a Voter Captivation. Can I still play it? I tried a google search but found two contradicting answers; both dated 3+ years ago.

[ quoted text not captured ] Freak drive: [for] Only usable at the end of a successful action (after resolving the action). This vampire untaps. [FOR] As above, but usable even if the action is blocked (play after combat, if any). Voter Cap: Only usable after resolving a successful referendum. [pre] The acting vampire gains X blood from the blood bank, where X is the number of votes by which the referendum passed. [PRE] As above, but move up to 2 of those blood counters to your pool instead of this vampire. Engh..... While FD says only usable after action resolution, specifically stating after combat if any, VC only states after a successful referendum. If you are going to be a complete text lawyer about it, you could quite legitamately state that that means any time after a successful referendum..... Which leaves you one hell of a lot of leeway. IANSLJIAW but it seems to me that this could be taken to mean that you would be able to play the VC, even though I have never done so, and did not up till now think you could do that. LSJ? Please?

Izaak wrote: > Came up in a game yesterday: > > I complete a succesfull vote and play Freak Drive on the acting minion. > I replace the card and top-deck a Voter Captivation. > Can I still play it? Yes. > I tried a google search but found two contradicting answers; both dated 3+ > years ago. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/msg/b91656a4dfe25b34

[ quoted text not captured ] k, just read that and now i'm confused again. Touch of Pain explicitly sports the "after resolution," and Freak Drive sports the same albeit in verb form "(after resolving the action)." but Voter Cap does not sport either versions of this conceptual term. it was just previously that you explained that the difference between Follow the Blood and FA/Status was the distinct lack of "after resolution" text on FA/Status. you said FA/Status was dependent on "after combat" and thus not a window continuous to the end of the action. you said this explicitly differs from what "after resolution" apparently provides. how does "after a successful referendum" w/o "after resolution" on Voter Cap differ from this situation? (your previous words for helpful reference) "after action resolution" is all of the action from the time resolution ends until the action is over. "after a combat" means immediately after the combat. thanks! :D

Azel wrote: > LSJ wrote: >> Izaak wrote: >>> Came up in a game yesterday: >>> >>> I complete a succesfull vote and play Freak Drive on the acting minion. >>> I replace the card and top-deck a Voter Captivation. >>> Can I still play it? >> >> Yes. >> >>> I tried a google search but found two contradicting answers; both >>> dated 3+ years ago. >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/msg/b91656a4dfe25b34 >> > > k, just read that and now i'm confused again. Touch of Pain explicitly > sports the "after resolution," and Freak Drive sports the same albeit in > verb form "(after resolving the action)." but Voter Cap does not sport > either versions of this conceptual term. ? VC sports "after resolving".

[ quoted text not captured ] AHA! i found it! Monger doesn't have that, unlike the official text on WW website. domo! :)