DI question

i'm on a bit of a playgroup roll at the moment, having won at anam and ian's house on Saturday, and again at Louisa's on Monday. i'm playing a new deck which i greatly enjoy, and will post if i ever get over the inertial barrier of writing it out. The latter game went quickly enough that we had time for a second and i was first out, playing my new "rational" !gangrel deck [not a fair test, i should add - worst possible crypt draw - but i still managed to piss on John K's parade]. Anyway, during that game Sam DI'd an Anarchist Uprising by John E. The question is, can John play another AI or other vote with that minion? i thought, and think, the answer is yes. But i was not sure, and nobody else was, so John very gallantly played as if the DI cancelled his opportunity to do that action type, and bled me out unblockably instead. LSJ, James C, help, please? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

legb...@my-deja.com wrote: > Anyway, during that game Sam DI'd an Anarchist Uprising by John E. The > question is, can John play another AI or other vote with that minion? i > thought, and think, the answer is yes. Yes: > From: LSJ <vte...@wizards.com> > Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad > Subject: Re: Direct Intervention > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 06:10:43 -0800 > Message-ID: <34E302...@wizards.com> > > On VTES-L, Bernard Bresnahan <bern...@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > > My predator attempts to bleed me with Governed the Unaligned, which I > > deny with Direct Intervention. May that minion attempt a different > > "Bleed" action? I would assume not due to the No Repeat Action rule. > > Yes, since the NRA onus doesn't kick in until the action > resolves (is blocked or is successful) - which is why a > minion who takes an action that is later Masked away can > take the same action again. -- LSJ (vte...@wizards.com) V:TES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and tournament rules: http://www.wizards.com/VTES/rules.asp

In article <3815DE87...@wizards.com>, LSJ <vte...@wizards.com> wrote: > legb...@my-deja.com wrote: > > Anyway, during that game Sam DI'd an Anarchist Uprising by John E. The > > question is, can John play another AI or other vote with that minion? i > > thought, and think, the answer is yes. > > Yes: > >> (snip) > -- > LSJ (vte...@wizards.com) V:TES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. > Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and tournament rules: > http://www.wizards.com/VTES/rules.asp > How about having an Ancient Influence DI'd and then another minion calling an Ancient Influence Vote. Does a card that has been DId count as being "played"? The DI card text seems to indicate that the card was played, blood was spent, and then blood is restored from the blood bank. How about a Giant's Blood being Sudden Reversaled. Can another Giant's blood be played in the game? [ quoted text not captured ]

> How about having an Ancient Influence DI'd and then another minion > calling an Ancient Influence Vote. Does a card that has been DId count > as being "played"? The DI card text seems to indicate that the card was > played, blood was spent, and then blood is restored from the blood > bank. How about a Giant's Blood being Sudden Reversaled. Can another > Giant's blood be played in the game? Perhaps I can save LSJ some time by posting his response to the Giant's Blood issue here. >> 1. If i play a Giant's Blood and my prey plays Sudden Reversal, >> can i play another GB late? >No. Canceling the card's effect doesn't mean the card wasn't played. Meaning that cards like Giant's blood do not care what happens after the card is played. Once they are played, the game remembers that it was played (note that burned or discarded cards are not played and do not trigger the only one clause). If Ancient Influence were written "Only on AI may be called in a game", then you would actually have to call the vote before the clause kicks in. However, as it is written, playing the card immediately triggers the clause and ignores what ever happens after that - DI, Delaying Tactics [my personal favorite response to AI and Political Stranglehold]. Stu -Your Friendly Neighborhood Camarilla Scholar [ quoted text not captured ]

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[ quoted text not captured ] Correct. Giant's Blood: [RTR 23-SEP-1994] Ancient Influence: [TOM 27-DEC-1995] [ quoted text not captured ]