rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Q: Fast Reaction vs Hidden Lurker?

12 messages from 7 participants · 22 April 2003 – 25 April 2003
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Creature

I tried looking thru posts and couldnt find the answer to this one. it popped up during a game last weekend. What happens when, after a combat bewteen acting minion A and blocking minion B, acting meth plays a hidden lurker and blocker plays fast reaction (both meths have an untapped ready vampire). Which combat happens first?

Jozxyqk

[ quoted text not captured ] > Which combat happens first? I think the Hidden Lurker "happens" first, and resolves, before the Fast Reaction can be played.

Halcyan 2

[ quoted text not captured ] Correct. The acting player has the first chance to play any effects so he will have the chance to play a Hidden Lurker before a Fast Reaction can be played. Halcyan 2

Joshua Duffin

"Halcyan 2" <halc...@aol.com> wrote in message news:20030422132401...@mb-m19.aol.com... [ quoted text not captured ] Note that if Hidden Lurker is played, it will not be possible to play Fast Reaction during the same action, since the combat involving the Hidden Lurker won't have an "acting" vampire for Fast Reaction to target. I'm sure Halcyan knows this, but just in case anyone else wasn't aware. :-) Josh attribution lost

Halcyan 2

>Note that if Hidden Lurker is played, it will not be possible to >play Fast Reaction during the same action, since the combat >involving the Hidden Lurker won't have an "acting" vampire for >Fast Reaction to target. > >I'm sure Halcyan knows this, but just in case anyone else wasn't >aware. :-) Fine! You want to get picky Josh! Then take this! Actually, it is still possible to play Fast Reaction during the same action even if Hidden Lurker is played - if the Hidden Lurker is canceled by something like a Direct Intervention. In that case, the Hidden Lurker is actually played (but you don't get the effect), and still allowing Fast Reaction to be played. Halcyan 2 in your face mr. duffin!

Joshua Duffin

"Halcyan 2" <halc...@aol.com> wrote in message news:20030422143058...@mb-m16.aol.com... > Fine! You want to get picky Josh! Then take this! > > Actually, it is still possible to play Fast Reaction during the same action > even if Hidden Lurker is played - if the Hidden Lurker is canceled by something > like a Direct Intervention. In that case, the Hidden Lurker is actually played > (but you don't get the effect), and still allowing Fast Reaction to be played. Ah, but then the acting Methuselah could play another Hidden Lurker with a different minion, thus re-forestalling the possibility of Fast Reaction! Josh ;-)

Patrick van der Reest

"Joshua Duffin" <jtdu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<b843c8$603r0$1...@ID-121616.news.dfncis.de>... [ quoted text not captured ] Or just Sudden Reversal the DI, of course, but I'm sure that would be too easy :) Patrick van der Reest Columbus, OH

John Flournoy

sam...@hotmail.com (Patrick van der Reest) wrote in message news:<92081c66.03042...@posting.google.com>... [ quoted text not captured ] Ah, but the acting Methuselah *can't* play a Sudden Reversal, because it's during his turn. Unless of course the acting minion is a Malkavian using a Madness Network to act during someone else's turn. I think. Confusion... rising.. -John Flournoy

Patrick van der Reest

flou...@rcn.com (John Flournoy) wrote in message news:<57327a82.03042...@posting.google.com>... > > > Ah, but then the acting Methuselah could play another Hidden > > > Lurker with a different minion, thus re-forestalling the > > > possibility of Fast Reaction! > > > > > > > Or just Sudden Reversal the DI, of course, but I'm sure that would be too easy :) > > Ah, but the acting Methuselah *can't* play a Sudden Reversal, because > it's during his turn. > > Unless of course the acting minion is a Malkavian using a Madness > Network to act during someone else's turn. I think. Confusion... > rising.. Now, that sounds promising: a Madness Network / Mose of the Hound / Graverobbing / Hidden Lurker deck. Pack some Disguised Weapons and aggro tools, or maybe protean pokeyness, and one should be able to torporize about anything. Once you've got someone down, you can usually force a block when you visit his nice little crypt, and that's all you need... Whether it's easier or more annoying than my SO's favourite deck with 8 (!) Rotschreck, I don't know. Guess I'll have to try it out one of these days. :) Blessings, [ quoted text not captured ]

Creature

"Joshua Duffin" <jtdu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<b83vct$5vmdr$1...@ID-121616.news.dfncis.de>... [ quoted text not captured ] Not sure I'm clear on this concept. Since hidden lurker is now considered an action modifier, then wouldn't the original acting minion still be the a "valid" acting minion, therefore fast-reactionable, even after the HL has been resolved???

LSJ

Creature wrote: > Not sure I'm clear on this concept. Since hidden lurker is now > considered an action modifier, then wouldn't the original acting > minion still be the a "valid" acting minion, therefore > fast-reactionable, even after the HL has been resolved??? No. Fast Reaction can only be played when concluding a combat between the acting minion and the blocking minion. -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

Joshua Duffin

"LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message news:3EA8901C...@white-wolf.com... > Creature wrote: > > Not sure I'm clear on this concept. Since hidden lurker is now > > considered an action modifier, then wouldn't the original acting > > minion still be the a "valid" acting minion, therefore > > fast-reactionable, even after the HL has been resolved??? > > No. > Fast Reaction can only be played when concluding a combat between > the acting minion and the blocking minion. To expand on Scott's answer: The original acting minion is indeed still "the one true acting minion" until that action is totally completed (after all combats are done and nobody wants to do anything else "inside" the action). However, because Fast Reaction's card text says "Only usable after a combat between a blocking minion you control other than this vampire and the acting minion", it's not playable if the combat that just finished didn't include that "one true acting minion". See? :-) Josh prolixity is the soul of (my) rules answers