[LSJ] Muricia's Call

I was looking through some of the old errata, rulings, and clarifications. It states there that if a retainer is brought into play by any method other than "Employ Retainer" then the retainer is brought in at the basic level of the card. If this is true then If Howler who has superior Animalism used Muricia Call at Superior to get a Raven Spy out of his library. Then that Raven Spy would only have 2 life (1 for basic Animalism and 1 extra for Muricia's Call). Is that correct, even though Howler has superior Animalism? Comments Welcome, Norman S. Brown, Jr. XZealot Archon of the Swamp

XZealot wrote: > I was looking through some of the old errata, rulings, and > clarifications. It states there that if a retainer is brought into > play by any method other than "Employ Retainer" then the retainer is > brought in at the basic level of the card. > > If this is true then If Howler who has superior Animalism used Muricia > Call at Superior to get a Raven Spy out of his library. Then that > Raven Spy would only have 2 life (1 for basic Animalism and 1 extra > for Muricia's Call). > > Is that correct, even though Howler has superior Animalism? Card text: "This vampire employs that retainer", so the action is an "employ retainer" action. The ruling on actions that are not "employ retainer" actions doesn't apply. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

> > I was looking through some of the old errata, rulings, and > > clarifications. It states there that if a retainer is brought into > > play by any method other than "Employ Retainer" then the retainer is > > brought in at the basic level of the card. > > > > If this is true then If Howler who has superior Animalism used Muricia > > Call at Superior to get a Raven Spy out of his library. Then that > > Raven Spy would only have 2 life (1 for basic Animalism and 1 extra > > for Muricia's Call). > > > > Is that correct, even though Howler has superior Animalism? > > Card text: "This vampire employs that retainer", so the action is an > "employ retainer" action. The ruling on actions that are not "employ > retainer" actions doesn't apply. If Howler then untaps somehow, she can still employ a raven spy with the card, right?

David Wilson wrote: >>>If this is true then If Howler who has superior Animalism used Muricia >>>Call at Superior to get a Raven Spy out of his library. Then that >>>Raven Spy would only have 2 life (1 for basic Animalism and 1 extra >>>for Muricia's Call). >>> >>>Is that correct, even though Howler has superior Animalism? >> >>Card text: "This vampire employs that retainer", so the action is an >>"employ retainer" action. The ruling on actions that are not "employ >>retainer" actions doesn't apply. > > If Howler then untaps somehow, she can still employ a raven spy with the > card, right? ... with the Raven Spy card, yes. ... with the Muricia's Call card, no. [ quoted text not captured ]