[LSJ] Obedience and Millicent Smith

Just a quick question: Methuselah A controls Millicent Smith. Methuselah B blocks a mandatory hunt action of Methuselah A's minion and wants to play Obedience to remain untapped. I am pretty confident that the Millicent effect occurs and there is no 'about to enter combat,' so Obedience cannot be played, but I ask for an official ruling just to be sure. Thanks, Jon Millicent Smith: During your discard phase, your predator takes control of Millicent. If the Methuselah controlling Millicent has any of his or her actioning vampires blocked, then Millicent and the acting vampire are burned without combat. Obedience: Only usable when this reacting vampire is about to enter combat with an acting younger vampire. Untap the acting vampire, do not tap this reacting vampire, and end the current action (and combat). The acting vampire cannot attempt the same action this turn. As above, but do not untap the acting vampire.

On 24 Jul 2003 17:22:42 -0700, jsush...@hotmail.com (Jon) scrawled: >Just a quick question: > >Methuselah A controls Millicent Smith. > >Methuselah B blocks a mandatory hunt action of Methuselah A's minion >and wants to play Obedience to remain untapped. > >I am pretty confident that the Millicent effect occurs and there is no >'about to enter combat,' so Obedience cannot be played, but I ask for >an official ruling just to be sure. not sure why you need an official answer. the cards' text answers it right there. Millicent burns you without combat. Obediance is only usable when about to enter combat. You are never about to enter combat, so you can't play Obediance. Trust in thy self! Although i assume some other player in your group doubts your wisdom so you'd like to throw a Writ of LSJ at him regarding it.... [snip sig] >Millicent Smith: >During your discard phase, your predator takes control of Millicent. >If the Methuselah controlling Millicent has any of his or her >actioning vampires blocked, then Millicent and the acting vampire are >burned without combat. > >Obedience: >Only usable when this reacting vampire is about to enter combat with >an acting younger vampire. >Untap the acting vampire, do not tap this reacting vampire, and end >the current action (and combat). The acting vampire cannot attempt the >same action this turn. >As above, but do not untap the acting vampire. salem domain:canberra http://www.geocities.com/salem_christ.geo/vtes.htm

salem wrote: > On 24 Jul 2003 17:22:42 -0700, jsush...@hotmail.com (Jon) scrawled: >>Methuselah A controls Millicent Smith. >> >>Methuselah B blocks a mandatory hunt action of Methuselah A's minion >>and wants to play Obedience to remain untapped. >> >>I am pretty confident that the Millicent effect occurs and there is no >>'about to enter combat,' so Obedience cannot be played, but I ask for >>an official ruling just to be sure. > > Millicent burns you without combat. Obediance is only > usable when about to enter combat. You are never about to enter > combat, so you can't play Obediance. Trust in thy self! Correct. -- 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/