If I play malkavian time auction, can i bid on the card, thereby keeping
the card and collecting the second highest bid?
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The Lunatic is on the Grass
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Yes, you can bid on your own Time Auction.
Tom Wylie rec.games.trading-cards.* Network Representative for
aa...@cats.ucsc.edu Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
Thomas R Wylie <aa...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>Yes, you can bid on your own Time Auction.
Then why would anyone else bid? The card is beginning to sound a little
pointless.
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Michael Constant (mco...@soda.csua.berkeley.edu)
>Thomas R Wylie <aa...@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:>>Yes, you can bid on your own Time Auction.
So you get the blood from yourself, plus the last bidder's?
Without doing a formal game theory analysis, it sounds like this
effectively sets the minimum bid at the controller's total blood pool.
Any less and you can't win, may lose the bid and won't drive up the price
or anything else useful (since playing around with 5, 6, 7 is silly if
the owner can just bid 10.)
Bidding over the owner's blood pool is likely silly, too, since
anyone can overbid and seriously screw you.
The most likely result is either nothing is it's not a good card,
or the last person with enough blood buys it for <your pool>+1.
I guess this could be useful, if, for example, you have 3 blood and
everyone else has 7. The second-to-last bidder bids 4. Now his prey (and
your predator) has to decide a) let my predator buy it for 4, or b)
spend 5 blood and give my prey instead of only 4.