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Need a Clarification here (was Re: a Different Mask of 1K Faces question (LSJ) )

2 messages from 2 participants · 03 August 2001
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Tetragrammaton

"Sorrow" <jcb...@yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:HIea7.577$5d.9...@newshog.newsread.com... > > After reading the first half of the Action Modifier thread, I decided > > to build a Mask/Venenation deck and it went pretty well. My question, > > however, is this: > > Did you check out my deck in the other thread? > > > Minion A takes an action to Corrupt Prey's Minion 1. > > Minion 1 blocks > > Minion A plays Venenation > > Minion B plays Mask > > Minion B plays Venenation > > Minion C plays Mask > > Minion C plays Venenation > > Minion C plays Change of Target > > Can Minion A and/or B attempt to play a Corruption on Minion 1? or > > would this be considered a Repeat Action? > > Both can attempt to play Corruption. Only minion C is governed not only > by the NRA but more importantly, the card text of Change of Target > Hy, i need a clarification for the above: assuming the mask is played after the venenation, and so when the acting minion *is* blocked, isn't the untapped-by-the-mask acting minion anyway under the NRA rule? I'm telling this by the direct intervention clarification that states: Since the NRA rule is applied to the acting minion when the action resolves (is blocked or is successful), .......etc. [LSJ 19980212] Or i'm wrong? (LSJ ?). Thanks in advance Emiliano, prince of Rome > > We said no it wasn't covered under the NRA rule since, logically, > > Minion A never actually TOOK the action, you all just *thought* it was > > Minion A. > > Just wanting to make sure we played that right... > > Both A and B can attempt the action. > > > and I dropped 4 Venenations on one vamp in one action... it was pretty > > sweet... almost as sweet as when i played Ecstasy to reduce a bleed of > > 4 to 0 *grin* > > With 4 different untapped (or woken) minions, right? > > Sorrow > ---

LSJ

"Tetragrammaton" <nospam_a...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Tgta7.8824$te7.3...@news.infostrada.it... [ quoted text not captured ] The NRA taints the minion when the action resolves. If you mask before the tap-n-combat part of the block, then the previous minion is not tainted. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and tournament rules: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/