rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Mad, leet übercombo...why does it not work?

9 messages from 8 participants · 11 August 2004 – 13 August 2004
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arden mcbathan

Well, as mentioned in the subject line, I am 100% sure this doesn't work, but why not? Malkavian Prank Type: Master Requires: Malkavian Master. Each other Methuselah holds between 1 and 4 counters inclusive in his or her hand. *Guess the number of counters in each Methuselah's hand*. If you guess correctly, you gain that much pool from his or her pool. If you guess incorrectly, that Methuselah gains that much pool from the blood bank. Revelations Type: Action Requires: Auspex Cost: 1 blood +1 stealth action. [aus] (D) Look at your prey's hand. He or she discards a card of your choice. [AUS] Put this card in play. **Your prey plays with an open hand.** Any minion may burn this card as a (D) action. Guessing the amount of counters in an open hand correctly is, well, hardly challenging. To come back to the question: give me a reason why this wouldn't work. "Hand" seems to be badly addressed variable or something ;)

LSJ

"arden mcbathan" <sonnenk...@aol.com> wrote in message news:aae0be1a.04081...@posting.google.com... > Guessing the amount of counters in an open hand correctly is, well, > hardly challenging. > To come back to the question: give me a reason why this wouldn't work. > "Hand" seems to be badly addressed variable or something ;) Open hand means something else in card games. VTES is a card game. -- 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/

Colin McGuigan

arden mcbathan wrote: > Well, as mentioned in the subject line, I am 100% sure this doesn't > work, but why not? For the same reason your hand (at the end of your arm) doesn't actually grow larger when you play an Elder Library, or the same reason you don't have to chop off your hand and throw it away when you play Deal with the Devil[1]. [1] Assuming anyone ever actually did play DwtD. --Colin McGuigan

David Zopf

"arden mcbathan" <sonnenk...@aol.com> wrote in message news:aae0be1a.04081...@posting.google.com... > Well, as mentioned in the subject line, I am 100% sure this doesn't > work, but why not? > Because either by a misunderstanding of 'open hand' due to a language barrier (non-native English speaker?), or due to overly-twinkish tendencies, you do not realize that 'playing with an open hand' refers to playing such that all other players are able to see the cards in your hand, and nothing more. > > Malkavian Prank > Type: Master > Requires: Malkavian > Master. > Each other Methuselah holds between 1 and 4 counters inclusive in his > or her hand. *Guess the number of counters in each Methuselah's hand*. > If you guess correctly, you gain that much pool from his or her pool. > If you guess incorrectly, that Methuselah gains that much pool from > the blood bank. > > Revelations > Type: Action > Requires: Auspex > Cost: 1 blood > +1 stealth action. > [aus] (D) Look at your prey's hand. He or she discards a card of your > choice. > [AUS] Put this card in play. **Your prey plays with an open hand.** > Any minion may burn this card as a (D) action. > > > > Guessing the amount of counters in an open hand correctly is, well, > hardly challenging. ...and not legal, regardless of whether Revelations is in play. > To come back to the question: give me a reason why this wouldn't work. > "Hand" seems to be badly addressed variable or something ;) No. 'Playing with an open hand' is a commonly understood phrase, which you just happened to misunderstand... Regards, DaveZ Atom Weaver

Matthew T. Morgan

[ quoted text not captured ] At a Jyhad draft last Saturday in Baltimore, I almost was tempted to draft a Deal With the Devil. Wouldn't have been so terrible, because I was picking up a fair amount of anti-vote tech and if my hand filled up with it and I had DWtD and nobody was voting...well, I guess you can see why I ended up not taking it. Another player said he was jammed on something and hoped he'd draw his Deal soon, but he got ousted first. Nobody had a hatchet, so we had to be satisfied with breaking his fingers in the doorjam. Matt Morgan

Darky

sonnenk...@aol.com (arden mcbathan) wrote in message news:<aae0be1a.04081...@posting.google.com>... [ quoted text not captured ] obviously you can hold the counters in your left hand when you're playing cards with the other! ;) -Bram Vink Hmm, if that's the case, does superior revelations mean you can just play with your non card-holding hand open? (as in: not a fist :P)

Colin McGuigan

Matthew T. Morgan wrote: > Another player said he was jammed on something and hoped he'd draw his > Deal soon, but he got ousted first. Nobody had a hatchet, so we had to be > satisfied with breaking his fingers in the doorjam. I think that this is a great deterrent for people who insist on playing Deal with the Devil. --Colin McGuigan

Daneel

sonnenk...@aol.com (arden mcbathan) wrote in message news:<aae0be1a.04081...@posting.google.com>... > Well, as mentioned in the subject line, I am 100% sure this doesn't > work, but why not? [...] > Guessing the amount of counters in an open hand correctly is, well, > hardly challenging. > To come back to the question: give me a reason why this wouldn't work. > "Hand" seems to be badly addressed variable or something ;) I laughed really hard on this. Sufficiently creative and funny idea to cheer me up. Something not achieved easily... ;) Bye, Daneel

Bobby_Doc

> I laughed really hard on this. Sufficiently creative and funny idea to > cheer me up. Something not achieved easily... ;) Same here. And even more funny are some responses to the post, saying "oh, you're logic is incorrect dude". > Bye, > > Daneel