rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Josef von Bauren and Powerbase: LA

6 messages from 4 participants · 21 November 2008
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Jozxyqk

A "lighter" question from me about new card interactions: Josef von Bauren's special ability: "You may use a discard phase action to discard a card at random from your predator or prey's hand." Powerbase: LA's relevant text: Tap during your discard phase to gain a discard phase action. If you use that discard phase action to discard a card that requires an anarch or a card that makes a vampire an anarch, you may untap a ready anarch. Question: If I tap my Powerbase LA to use Josef's ability, and the card my prey discards at random is a card that requires an anarch, can I untap an anarch?

Emiliano Imeroni

[ quoted text not captured ] Also, how does Josef's ability interact with Port Authority? Port Authority Type: Event Government. When a Methuselah uses a discard phase action to discard a card, he or she doesn't draw to replace that card until his or her next untap phase.

JH

On Nov 21, 3:27 pm, Emiliano Imeroni <emiliano.imer...@gmail.com> wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] Josef + Port Authority doesn't work as the Methuselah discarding isn't using a DPA to discard a card.

Emiliano Imeroni

[ quoted text not captured ] Well, that would be a logic conclusion, yes. However, technically, the Methuselah *is* using a DPA to discard a card, because that's how Josef's text is written: "You may use a discard phase action to discard a card at random from your predator or prey's hand." Notice the exact same wording as Port Authority.

JH

On Nov 21, 3:40 pm, Emiliano Imeroni <emiliano.imer...@gmail.com> [ quoted text not captured ] Yeah, but the Methuselah who discards the card isn't using a DPA, the Methuselah controlling Josef is using the DPA, thus Port Authority doesn't function.

LSJ

Emiliano Imeroni wrote: > On 21 Nov, 14:11, Jozxyqk <jfeue...@eecs.tufts.edu> wrote: >> A "lighter" question from me about new card interactions: >> >> Josef von Bauren's special ability: >> "You may use a discard phase action to discard a card at random from >> your predator or prey's hand." >> > Also, how does Josef's ability interact with Port Authority? > > Port Authority > Type: Event > Government. > When a Methuselah uses a discard phase action to discard a card, he or > she doesn't draw to replace that card until his or her next untap > phase. The Methuselah doubly doesn't draw to replace the card. Both from PA's effect and from the fact that she wouldn't draw anyhow, since the discarded card didn't come out of her hand. The prey (or predator as the case may be) replaces as normal, since no effect says otherwise.