rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

[Newbie Q] Short Term Investment

9 messages from 9 participants · 30 November 1994 – 05 December 1994
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Joseph William Dixon

I'm almost an old hand at Magic, but just started Jyhad yesterday, so forgive me this... :) Anyways, if I have both a Short Turn Investment and a Protracted Investment in play and decided to not play a Master card that turn, am I allowed to take 1 Blood off of each, or is it a case (as it would be in Magic:) of "not using the same cost to pay for multiple effects"? [the cost being, in this case, passing up the opportunity to play a Master] -- * Check out this URL for some links I like to use. * * http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/~aa343/Profile.html *

Mel-zo-rama

In article <D02Dz...@cs.dal.ca>, Joseph William Dixon <aa...@cfn.cs.dal.ca> wrote: > > Anyways, if I have both a Short Turn Investment and a Protracted >Investment in play and decided to not play a Master card that turn, am I >allowed to take 1 Blood off of each, or is it a case (as it would be in >Magic:) of "not using the same cost to pay for multiple effects"? [the >cost being, in this case, passing up the opportunity to play a Master] No...since the card says that instead of playing a master phase, that you can take one off of an investment card. Of course, if you have Rumurs of Gehenna...which will give you two master card chances...or Anson in play....that would allow you the right to more than one. HUGZ! Mel aka Lookin for some people to trade with :)

Bela Lugosi

Mel-zo-rama (mel...@wam.umd.edu) wrote: : In article <D02Dz...@cs.dal.ca>, : Joseph William Dixon <aa...@cfn.cs.dal.ca> wrote: : > : > Anyways, if I have both a Short Turn Investment and a Protracted : >Investment in play and decided to not play a Master card that turn, am I : >allowed to take 1 Blood off of each, or is it a case (as it would be in : No...since the card says that instead of playing a master phase, that you : can take one off of an investment card. Of course, if you have Rumurs of : HUGZ! : Mel aka Lookin for some people to trade with :) Actually, the cards say "during one's master phase," so in a similar vein to blood doll cards (sorry) i have to ask: is this the official ruling? Or at least, the way us dummies here in Philly were supposed to know the rules meant? I think people have been doing both, ie playing master phases as per normal AND using one of those cards (ie blood doll, investments etc). And how do hunting grounds fit in? I assume that once the card is in play, using it is no longer a Master phase action ("a location card may be used the same round it is brought into play," or some such rule that drifts into memory, seems to support this interpretation). The reason i ask is that someone i know (who BTW is NOT cheesy at all, yet kicks our @$$es routinely with a 40/12 deck, yee-hah) _does_ use what is referred to as The Straw... hunting ground card to add a blood to a vampire, then SLURP it to pool with Blood Doll. He tends to play only one doll at a time (he much prefers to see our faces after we finally burn the damn doll vamp, only to have him doll someone else...). But in any event, even if that's ok, investment cards are either/or? They actaully USE the master phase?

Dale Hurtt

In article <D02Dz...@cs.dal.ca>, aa...@cfn.cs.dal.ca (Joseph William Dixon) wrote: > I'm almost an old hand at Magic, but just started Jyhad yesterday, so > forgive me this... :) > > Anyways, if I have both a Short Turn Investment and a Protracted > Investment in play and decided to not play a Master card that turn, am I > allowed to take 1 Blood off of each, or is it a case (as it would be in > Magic:) of "not using the same cost to pay for multiple effects"? [the > cost being, in this case, passing up the opportunity to play a Master] > You can either play one master card or pull one blood off of one of your investment cards. If you could play two master cards (there is a political card and a vampire which allow you to do this) then you could play one card and pull one blood, or two cards, or two blood (one off each or two off one). -- Dale Hurtt dhu...@harris.com

Brian MacDonald

I think Short Term/Protacted Investment says specifically that you can get a blood off it AS your master phase (instead of playing or card or other master action) Blood doll says "during your master's phase",but not "as your master's phase". Blarg. K!z!K

Matt Dworkin

I've been following this thread, and for some reason I keep thinking that I once read something official (my memory is bad, so it could have been from Tom on here, the Blood Doll Edition revised rules, etc etc) that stated that you CAN take blood from two investments, as the only qualification is that you do not play a master card. If I am incorrect, Tom, please correct me. I am just going from memory on this, but I know I did read it somewhere. Matt the Tired (Justicar)

Joe Cochran

In article <3blqqq$e...@netnews.upenn.edu>, Matt Dworkin <mdwo...@force.stwing.upenn.edu> wrote: >I've been following this thread, and for some reason I keep thinking >that I once read something official (my memory is bad, so it could >have been from Tom on here, the Blood Doll Edition revised rules, >etc etc) that stated that you CAN take blood from two investments, >as the only qualification is that you do not play a master card. The official word is that you must pull one blood instead of playing one master card. Thus, you can only get one blood on your master phase regardless of how many investments you have out, since you only have one master 'action' to give up. If you can get more master actions (such as via Anson or Rumors of Gehenna), you can draw more blood since you have more actions to use. | If you've got a hot lead on a new | *--Joe--* | PC game, call the announce line at | js...@vt.edu | ** csi...@discus.ise.vt.edu ** | +-------------------------------------+---------------------------------- "Carnivores, oy!" -- Timon, TLK

Tom Wylie

You spend a master action to take one counter off of one investment. Thus you can only get one counters per turn off of all your investments combined, unless you have multiple master actions available (e.g. Anson). Blood Doll is simply used during the master phase, and can be used whether or not you play a master card or take a counter off an investment. If you spend your master phase to play an out-of-turn master card, then neither Blood Doll nor your Investments may be used. Hunting Grounds are used during untap (card text), so do not interact with the master phase at all (well, except when first played). Tom Wylie rec.games.trading-cards.* Network Representative for aa...@hal.com Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

Brian Wilson

Before I could do anything to stop it, Tom Wylie wrote: > You spend a master action to take one counter off of one investment. > Thus you can only get one counters per turn off of all your investments > combined, unless you have multiple master actions available (e.g. Anson). > Blood Doll is simply used during the master phase, and can be used whether > or not you play a master card or take a counter off an investment. I think that part of where we make this confusing is by referring to "master actions." There really is no such thing. Short Term Investment says that "instead of playing a master card" you can pull one blood off the investment. Rumors of Gehenna and Anson let you play 2 master cards per turn. If you consider that you are pulling blood off an investment instead of playing a master card, it follows easily that if you have Anson or Rumors in play that you could pull 2 blood off of your investments rather than play either of your master cards. -- He did not wear his scarlet coat, | a-Henh! For blood and wine are red, | Brian Wilson And blood and wine were on his hands | When they found him with the dead. | | Oscar Wilde |