rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

[LSJ] Double infernal Status

10 messages from 5 participants · 20 November 2004 – 23 November 2004
original thread on Google Groups

Raille

Within the Story line events, the vampires already labeled with infernal, get an additional infernal penalty. This infers that any minion could be multiply infernal with barbaro's special. Is it true that he can make an minion infernal more than once? Is it true outside of SL games, that a multiply infernal minion must pay additional pool to untap? Raille

Jozxyqk

Raille <rai...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Within the Story line events, the vampires already labeled with infernal, > get an additional infernal penalty. > This infers that any minion could be multiply infernal with barbaro's > special. No. Within the Storyline events, you pay an additional pool not to tap the vampires already labeled as Infernal and playing for the Infernal team (remember if you're incidentally playing with some Baali or Midget in your non-infernal team, you still only pay 1 per infernal minion). It doesn't make them "Infernal again". It just makes their flavor of Infernal more painful.

LSJ

Jozxyqk wrote: > Raille <rai...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>Within the Story line events, the vampires already labeled with infernal, >>get an additional infernal penalty. > >>This [implies] that any minion could be multiply infernal with barbaro's >>special. > > No. Correct. -- 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/

Raille

"LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message news:tTHnd.941294$Gx4.1...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > Jozxyqk wrote: >> Raille <rai...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>Within the Story line events, the vampires already labeled with infernal, >>>get an additional infernal penalty. >> >>>This [implies] that any minion could be multiply infernal with barbaro's >>>special. >> >> No. > > Correct. > Oh well, I suppose its not going to make much difference, I don't expect to see people ever taint minions in the future, or maybe not even in the storyline games. Although I did manage to use him to taint Jake Washington, don't ask me why, but it seems like the thing to do. Raille

Raille

Looking at this from card text. Independent: Barbaro may place a taint counter on a minion as a +1 stealth (D) action. If a minion has 2 taint counters, burn those counters to make the minion infernal. Barbaro may change his clan to Tremere antitribu as a +1 stealth action. Infernal. Since there is nothing there stating he cannot taint an infernal minion, its obvious that multiple infernal desinations could be placed on a single minion. Since the Storyline indicates: If the vampire's card text already identifies him as infernal, the infernal pool penalty is increased by one pool (the controller must burn 2 pool or tap that vampire). It just seems that logic indicates that any minion allready infernal, that is further sucked into the deamonic arts, pays a more rich price to participate in the Masquarade. If the SL text simply Said a double infernal pays 2 pool the logic would fail. The text states the penalty is increased, and does not indicate that it could not be further increased. So, if all the above is incorrect and in normal play tainting minions to make them infernal 2 or more times does not increase the cost of being infernal, then offical errata and clarification should be make to the card text of Barbaro, or the rules them selves to state a minion never pays more than 1 pool per infernal minion. That change would still allow duplicate infernalisms, but have negligable game effect, unless we get a card that can remove being infernal at some point in the future. Raille

LSJ

Raille wrote: > Looking at this from card text. > > Independent: Barbaro may place a taint counter on a minion as a +1 stealth > (D) action. If a minion has 2 taint counters, burn those counters to make > the minion infernal. Barbaro may change his clan to Tremere antitribu as a > +1 stealth action. Infernal. > > Since there is nothing there stating he cannot taint an infernal minion, its > obvious that multiple infernal desinations could be placed on a single > minion. Similarly, you can make a Tremere a Tremere with Clan Impersonation. Infernal is a state - you are or you aren't. Like "ally", "vampire", "animal", "gun", "cold iron", "Tremere", "sterile", "tapped", "ready", etc. > So, if all the above is incorrect and in normal play tainting minions to > make them infernal 2 or more times does not increase the cost of being > infernal, then offical errata and clarification should be make to the card > text of Barbaro, or the rules them selves to state a minion never pays more > than 1 pool per infernal minion. No. The rules already state how to handle infernal minions. [ quoted text not captured ]

Raille

"LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message news:w72od.44169$7i4....@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > Raille wrote: > >> Looking at this from card text. >> >> Independent: Barbaro may place a taint counter on a minion as a +1 >> stealth >> (D) action. If a minion has 2 taint counters, burn those counters to make >> the minion infernal. Barbaro may change his clan to Tremere antitribu as >> a >> +1 stealth action. Infernal. >> >> Since there is nothing there stating he cannot taint an infernal minion, >> its >> obvious that multiple infernal desinations could be placed on a single >> minion. > > Similarly, you can make a Tremere a Tremere with Clan Impersonation. > Infernal is a state - you are or you aren't. Like "ally", "vampire", > "animal", "gun", "cold iron", "Tremere", "sterile", "tapped", "ready", > etc. > >> So, if all the above is incorrect and in normal play tainting minions to >> make them infernal 2 or more times does not increase the cost of being >> infernal, then offical errata and clarification should be make to the >> card >> text of Barbaro, or the rules them selves to state a minion never pays >> more >> than 1 pool per infernal minion. > > No. The rules already state how to handle infernal minions. > Agreed, it just seems as if the Inf Plg SL trumped that. However, multiple variations of clan changes do layer. I had problems with Vampire A clan impersonation, Get deranged and then clan impersonate to yet another clan. Vampire A now has 3 cards on him. As such I think any minion should be allowed to be infernal more than one time, even if the penalty does not change. It may have implications with future card release's. Although I do admit that having a double penalty would be worth trying to use barabro with extra untaps to taint as many people as possible. But thats really not as important as wether or not a minion can be tagged more than once, assuming that there might be a future infernal remover card. That said. The question is: Can you place more than one infernal label on a vampire? If not, why? Raille

LSJ

Raille wrote: > "LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message >>No. The rules already state how to handle infernal minions. >> > Agreed, it just seems as if the Inf Plg SL trumped that. Yes. Other storyline events have had rules that overrode the basic rules (75% clan crypt, etc.), as well. > However, multiple variations of clan changes do layer. Yes. All temporary effects layer. > I had problems with > Vampire A clan impersonation, Get deranged and then clan impersonate to yet > another clan. Vampire A now has 3 cards on him. As such I think any minion > should be allowed to be infernal more than one time, even if the penalty > does not change. It may have implications with future card release's. Sounds likely for any temporary infernality effects, given the current precedent. [ quoted text not captured ]

MartinTremere

"Raille" <rai...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<1101095071.H5yJXKptpQSgcSN2VQuSUg@teranews>... > Agreed, it just seems as if the Inf Plg SL trumped that. > > However, multiple variations of clan changes do layer. I had problems with > Vampire A clan impersonation, Get deranged and then clan impersonate to yet > another clan. Vampire A now has 3 cards on him. As such I think any minion > should be allowed to be infernal more than one time, even if the penalty > does not change. It may have implications with future card release's. > > Although I do admit that having a double penalty would be worth trying to > use barabro with extra untaps to taint as many people as possible. But > thats really not as important as wether or not a minion can be tagged more > than once, assuming that there might be a future infernal remover card. > > > That said. The question is: Can you place more than one infernal label on > a vampire? If not, why? > > Raille My first post here, and while I'm certainly no VTES guru (yet), I think I can offer some insight to this. Firstly, as LSJ mentioned before, being Infernal is a state, you either are Infernal, or you aren't. Cards like Clan Impersonation and Derange are placed on the vampire because there are ways to remove the effect. If the card is removed, the vampire 'reverts' back to their previous clan, whether it be their oringal clan, or from another, previous card. In your example, your minion could remove the Clan Impersonation to revert back to Malk/!Malk from the Derange. Compare this to cards like Into the Fire or Out of the Frying Pan, which change your base Sect, but the card is not placed on your vampire. Once you cross over, there's no going back (except by playing another card). Similarly, Barbaro's ability can make vampires Infernal with no way to 'go back'. Also by his own text, Barbaro can become !Tremere with no way to revert back Baali. You can go Infernal as many times as you like (provided you had appropriate text on the card, and the appropriate card, for that matter), but you can only actually be Infernal, not Infernalx2 or Infernalx3. I would imagine that in the future there will be a card (or cards) similar to Derange that can make other minions infernal, but that can be removed. Right now it's just Barbaro, and his effect is permanent. Chris, aka Martin, Elder of Clan Tremere

Derek Ray

In message <63b1ad18.04112...@posting.google.com>, martin_...@yahoo.co.uk (MartinTremere) mumbled something about: >"Raille" <rai...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<1101095071.H5yJXKptpQSgcSN2VQuSUg@teranews>... >> >> That said. The question is: Can you place more than one infernal label on >> a vampire? If not, why? >> >My first post here, and while I'm certainly no VTES guru (yet), I >think I can offer some insight to this. > >Firstly, as LSJ mentioned before, being Infernal is a state, you >either are Infernal, or you aren't. o/` Is you is, or is you ain't Infernal... o/` -- Derek a host is a host from coast to coast and no one will talk to a host that's close unless the host that isn't close is busy, hung, or dead