Wormwood and Barrenness

Consider Wormwood has 6 counters. I have a 10 cap vampire who is treated as a 6 cap. I now play Barreness on that vampire. I see 2 possiblites now: 1. The vampires capacity is reduced from 10 to 8, and Worwood treats him as a 6-cap. (Wormwood does not actually reduce that vamps capacity, it just treats it as a 6-cap.) 2. Wormwood treats the vamp as a 6-cap for all purposes, and Barreness reduces the capacity to 4. Im not sure which one is correct. Barrenness [Action] Action [Burn Option] [Maleficia] Maleficia +1 stealth action. [mal] Put this card on a vampire and untap this acting vampire. This vampire is sterile and his or her capacity decreases by 2 (to a minimum of 1.) [mal] is not a Discipline. [MAL] Burn a vampire whose capacity is 1. Wormwood [Event] Event Gehenna. Do not replace until your next discard phase. Requires at least one other Gehenna card in play. Put 10 counters on this card. Burn 1 counter whenever another Gehenna card is put in play. A vampire whose capacity is greater than X is treated as if his or her capacity is X (minimum of 1), where X is the number of counters on this card.

Answer 1. Wormwood states "A vampire whose capacity is greater than X is treated as if his or her capacity is X". It doesn't reduce the capacity. Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director

vekn.net/card-rulings/card-rulings-p-to-z > That wrote: > Wormwood snags the vampire's actual capacity (complete with any effects that have changed that actual capacity) and clamps it to X. Orun will add to that X (or to the vampire's real capacity if it is less than X) for cards played by other players. [LSJ 20051205] > Barrenness is a proper capacity affecter (unlike the weirdness of Orun), so the vampire's actual capacity is 8. Then Wormwood means that it's treated as 6.