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Subject: Rule Team Rulings 9/28/98

From:  (LSJ (VtES Rep))

Date: 1998/09/28

Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Rules Team Rulings 9/28/98.

The errata and rulings below go into effect for DCI Sanctioned

Tournaments on 11/1/98 (the standard delay for rulings and errata

issued after the 15th of the month).

The clarifications apply immediately, of course.

ERRATA

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Powerbase: New York

  The action to steal the blood cannot be taken by your own Sabbat

  vampires. (The WotC spoiler list has text to this effect, but the

  actual card does not.)

Reform Body

  Can be played in combat (as a combat card) by either combatant, acting

  or reacting/blocking.

  Can also be played (as a reaction card) from Torpor, even though only

  Ready vampires can play reaction cards by default.

  (To match the original intent of the card as verified by one of the

  playtesters of the Sabbat expansion).

RULINGS

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Requirement: another card

  If a card targets (chooses, selects, is played on, etc.) another card,

  then the card can only be played if an appropriate target is available.

  Examples: Compel the Spirit can only be played if the retainer or ally

  in question is in your ash heap - it cannot be played on a Mummy (who

  was returned to your library rather than the ash heap). And Brujah

  Frenzy cannot be played if there is no suitable minion for the Brujah

  to enter combat with.

  REVERSAL: This ruling reverses an old ruling on Strike: Steal/Destroy

  Equipment/Weapon. Such strikes cannot be used if the opposing minion

  doesn't have a suitable Equipment/Weapon to be destroyed/stolen.

Strike: Combat Ends followed by combat cards.

  Combat cards cannot be played after combat.

  REVERSAL: This includes after a Srike: Combat Ends resolves.

  (So you cannot play Pulled Fangs, Disarm, Amaranth, etc. after

  a strike: end combat).

  Note: superior Psyche! is played at the end of combat (so,

  technically, after combat) by card text, so can still be used after

  a strike: end combat.

  Note 2: effects which are to occur at the end of a round/combat

  will still occur if the round/combat is ended by strike: combat

  ends (like superior Drawing out the Beast's damage and inferior

  Undead Persistence's torpor).

Rotschreck

  REVERSAL: Cannot be used if the "attempt to use aggravated damage" is

  not applicable at the current range. The most common example is an

  aggravated hand strike done at long range.

CLARIFICATIONS

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Betrayer

  The "other Methuselah" is announced when the card is played (before

  any decisions are made to play Sudden Reversal, for example).

Mind Rape and Return to Innocence

  When played on a vampire who is then the victim of a Banishment, these

  cards (like all minion cards) become uncontrolled (and cease to

  function) until the vampire returns to the controlled area. When the

  vampire returns to the controlled area, these cards' effects resume,

  ready to be "activated" at the next appropriate time.

Return to Innocence

  Return to Innocence doesn't care if the player who is your Prey changes

  (via Dramatic Upheaval or whatever). During your untap, you will remove

  the vampire from play and your Prey (whoever that is at the time) will

  burn X pool (assuming Return to Innocence hasn't been burned before 

  then, of course).

--

L. Scott Johnson () VTES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast.

Links to revised rulebook, rulings, errata, and DCI (tournament) rules:

http://www.wizards.com/VTES/VTES_Rules.html