LSJ#
Frederick Scott wrote:
>
> Trut...@webtv.net (Jeffrey Moore) writes:
>
> >Will someone please answer this so that I may send it to the lunkheads
> >in our group. Here's the situation:
> >
> >My minion was in combat with a minion doing aggrivated hand damage and a
> >FIRST STRIKE. I would be destroyed so I played Majesty. They say I'm
> >burned(!!!) because the first strike made me not even able to throw a
> >strike at all. I argued, Combat ends negates first strike.
>
> You don't have to ask us. Check the rules: combat ends does indeed
> negate first strike.
>
> Basic logic: if the acting methuselah choosing a first strike strike
> prevented the non-acting methuselah from having a strike at all, how
> could you ever have a first-strike-vs-first-strike resolution, which is
> clearly allowed for in the rules?
>
> Both players choose a strike. If neither is a dodge or a combat ends,
> a first strike will get resolved before a normal strike. Otherwise it
> doesn't matter.
Correct.
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