A question that came up in the discord (which I couldn't find an explicit ruling for)
Can an ally recruit another blood costing ally (with no requirements to be recruited) with the help of cost reducing cards like The Shard, London, Sunset Strip, Hollywood, or Powerbase: Tshwane (as the action is announced) if the cost is reduced to 0 or less?
The Shard, London
Cardtype: Master
Cost: 2 pool
Unique location.
If you have the Edge, you can lock this card to reduce the cost of a card you play by 2 blood or pool. Vampires can steal this location as a action; Ventrue get +1 stealth during that action.
Sunset Strip, Hollywood
Cardtype: Master
Cost: 1 pool
Master: unique location.
Lock to give all vampires +1 stealth on hunt actions until your next unlock phase. Lock to reduce the cost to recruit a mortal ally or employ a mortal retainer by 1 blood or pool (but never less than 0 blood or pool).
Powerbase: Tshwane
Cardtype: Master
Master: unique location. Requires a ready Laibon.
Lock this location to reduce the cost of a card you play by 1 pool (this location is not locked if that card is canceled as it is played). Any Laibon may steal this location for his or her controller as a action.
Short answer: yes.
(assuming the ally being recruited doesn't have any other requirements that the ally cannot fulfill)
ps. Don't forget The Line.
Smoking craters tell no tales.
—Tex talks Battletech
> Bloodartist wrote:
> Short answer: yes.
> (assuming the ally being recruited doesn't have any other requirements that the ally cannot fulfill)
>
> ps. Don't forget The Line.
>
Correct.
A close ruling about "playing a card you cannot normally afford" => groups.google.com/g/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/c/i3Ugq5AQWFI/m/TxPoXM78hFAJ
Prince of Paris, France
Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director
> Bloodartist wrote:
> ps. Don't forget The Line.
>
I intentionally left The Line out as it cannot be used by an ally or imbued when recruiting another ally.
The Line
Cardtype: Master
Unique location.
Lock to reduce the cost of an action card played by a vampire you control by 1 blood (this location is not locked if that card is canceled as it is played). Any vampire can steal this location as a action.
> inm8 wrote:
>
> > Bloodartist wrote:
> > ps. Don't forget The Line.
> >
> I intentionally left The Line out as it cannot be used by an ally or imbued when recruiting another ally.
>
> The Line
>
> Cardtype: Master
> Unique location.
> Lock to reduce the cost of an action card played by a vampire you control by 1 blood (this location is not locked if that card is canceled as it is played). Any vampire can steal this location as a action.
>
it cant even be used when an ally acts "as a vampire"
www.vekn.net/forum/rules-questions/78671-can-an-ally-with-play-as-a-vampire-use-the-line-to-reduce-action-costs#100015