Hi.
I have a doubt about the interaction of an out-of-turn Spirit Marionette (e.g., played with Nahum Enosh or Saulot with Enkil Cog, in my predator's minion phase, no more minions able to act) and Social Ladder in my turn. What happens to the marionetted vampire when he bleeds (or must hunt) in my turn, by Spirit Marionette's text? Is the marionetted vampire, after returning his control to his original owner, burned on my influence phase, by Social Ladder's text?
I've seen a thread about a Malkavian-impersonated Blanche Hill with Madness Network, but I'd like to be sure:
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Social Ladder
Master.
Put this card on a ready vampire you control. During your influence phase, remove this vampire from the game and move all the blood counters from that vampire to an older vampire in your uncontrolled region.
Spirit Marionette
Action
Obeah
Dominate
Bleed at +1 bleed.
Bleed at +1 bleed and tap a ready minion controlled by your prey (even if the target of the bleed is changed).
+1 stealth action. Take control of a ready untapped minion until the end of the next action. That minion must bleed your prey unless he or she must hunt.
Enkil Cog
Action Modifier
Requires a vampire of capacity 10 or more. Unique.
Only usable when this vampire successfully bleeds your prey (play after resolution). Put this card on this vampire. During any Methuselah's minion phase, this vampire may tap this card to attempt an action. This vampire has +1 bleed.
Regards,
Vinícius.
> makish wrote:
> Is the marionetted vampire, after returning his control to his original owner, burned on my influence phase, by Social Ladder's text?
>
Yes. Social Ladder is still on the vampire (even though it changed control back to its previous controller) and still triggers.
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Nothing happens in your turn. Social Ladder is a master so it remains under the control of the methuselah who played it. All the "you" and "your" on the card refer to him. See the difference with Blood Doll for example:
Put this card on a vampire you control. During his or her master phase, this vampire's controller may move 1 blood from this vampire to his or her pool or from his or her pool to this vampire.
Social Ladder can only be on the vampire if it was played this turn, so I gues you are stealing a minion from the acting player. In that case, you steal the minion and if he cannot bleed now and no one else takes an action, the acting player's Social Ladder triggers (before your turn). The vampire burns and his blood goes to the acting player's uncontrolled even if he does not control the vampire at the time.
Boris, I believe what he want to do is taking control of the minion during its predator turn, then in his masster phase play Social Ladder on the stolen minion (which have not acted yet), then do the mandatory bleed, return it to his predator, and remove it from play with social ladder.
A wicked plan, that's for sure. And a hard one to do
> Non-existant user wrote:
> Nothing happens in your turn. Social Ladder is a master so it remains under the control of the methuselah who played it. All the "you" and "your" on the card refer to him. See the difference with Blood Doll for example:
>
> Put this card on a vampire you control. During his or her master phase, this vampire's controller may move 1 blood from this vampire to his or her pool or from his or her pool to this vampire.
>
> Social Ladder can only be on the vampire if it was played this turn, so I gues you are stealing a minion from the acting player. In that case, you steal the minion and if he cannot bleed now and no one else takes an action, the acting player's Social Ladder triggers (before your turn). The vampire burns and his blood goes to the acting player's uncontrolled even if he does not control the vampire at the time.
>
I got confused by all the "you" / "acting player" (notice that "acting player" isn't a constant Methuselah - it changes as the game goes on). It also looks like you got the wrong player playing the Social Ladder.
A plays Spirit Marionnette on E's vampire during E's minion phase. There is no other action performed in E's turn.
In A's master phase, the Spirit Marionnette'd vampire is under A's control. A plays Social Ladder on that vampire.
During A's turn, an action is performed (notice that, if no action is performed, Social Ladder burns "normally" during A's influence phase). The stolen vampire goes back to E after that action. Notice that the Social Ladder is still controlled by A, and any "you" on it refers to A.
Therefore, "During your influence phase, remove this vampire from the game and move all the blood counters from that vampire to an older vampire in your uncontrolled region." is the same as "During A's influence phase, [A] removes this vampire from the game and moves all the blood counters from that vampire to an older vampire in [A's] uncontrolled region."
So, yes, the combo work great (if you're A).
Thanks, for the quick answers.
Boris, I intend to play it after I marionetted a vampire in my predator's minion phase, as Ohlmann said, using an Enkil Cog action. By the Social Ladder text, it actives only in my influence phase, not in the next influence phase. Thus, I hope to, after playing Social Ladder and bleed (or hunt) with the stolen vampire, burn him in my influence phase.
I'm unsure why the marionetted minion would last in A's control until HIS next action. The card says 'until the end of next action'. That could be any action, right? Even an action resolved by a minion controlled by another methuselah?
Where am I going wrong?
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For instance, If the predator has 2 vampires and act with one of them, lets the other untapped, an 'Enkil Cogged' vampire from Methuselah A can Spirit Marionette the untapped one. So, by that card's text, is controlled by A until the next action. There being not more actions in that turn, he comes to A turn still controlled by A during the A's master phase.
> Thetmes wrote:
> I just wondered if after enkil action, any minion could act and end the spirit marionette/social ladder combo?
>
"until the end of the next action" applies to any action, even one performed by another Methuselah.
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