There's being an interesting discussion in the Rules Forum about wheter some information events are played or not on tapped/untapped characters/sites. The link is here:
http://www.councilofelrond.org/forum/vi ... .php?t=355
Any thoughts?
Info permanents
I will try to elaborate my view a bit. I believe there are two types of active conditions when you are playing a card.
As an example, let’s take All Thought Bent upon It.
Now someone might argue that tapping the sage and the site are not active conditions for ATBuI's effect, because the card doesn't say "do X to get Y". Well, all you need to do is take a look at Lucky Search.
- (1) Active conditions for the action of playing the card.
(2) Active conditions for the card’s effect.
As an example, let’s take All Thought Bent upon It.
Ok, you play ATBuI and check for type (1) of active conditions:ATBuI wrote:Sage only. Playable during the site phase on an untapped sage at a site where Information is playable. Tap the sage and the site. Search your play deck and choose a item you must reveal to your opponent. Place the item in your hand and reshuffle your play deck. The sage makes a corruption check.
- - untapped sage at a site where information is playable
- site phase
- - tap the sage (this is done now, at declaration)
- tap the site (also done now, and includes the requirement of an untapped site)
- - sage is still in play and tapped
- site is still in play and tapped
Now someone might argue that tapping the sage and the site are not active conditions for ATBuI's effect, because the card doesn't say "do X to get Y". Well, all you need to do is take a look at Lucky Search.
The second sentence is clearly an active condition. Otherwise you could grab an item for the scout in the untap phase at Rivendell...Lucky Search wrote:Scout only. During the site phase, tap a scout at a Shadow-hold [S] or Dark-hold [D]. Turn over cards from your play deck one at a time until you reveal a non-special item or reach the end. If you reveal a non-special item, the scout takes control of it. In any case, the scout must face a single strike attack with a prowess equal to 3 plus the number of cards revealed; this attack/strike cannot be cancelled. Reshuffle all revealed cards except the item back into play deck.
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Indeed it this case "Tap" is not printed bold or as cursive.miguel wrote:The second sentence is clearly an active condition. Otherwise you could grab an item for the scout in the untap phase at Rivendell...
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I think that Lucky Search is case similar to Gollum.
Without appropriate CRF entry:
In other words I think that lack of cursives or bold printing in second phrase of Lucky Search is just example of the same (early) style of ICE.
However main moot point is that "playable on untapped X" and subsequent "tap X" may be both considered active conditions or that only first is considered as AC.
@Miguel
I think that your explanation is extraordinary. In such sense that it introduces brand new concepts (two levels of active conditions). This explanation is useful for legitimize some players habituated style of playing some cards.
Personally I think that rules are not for making things more complicated than it is needed, but rather should serve regulation of situations that otherwise (without that rules) would be undefined and as such unplayable.
*) The same for Baduila.
Underline mine.Unique. Playable at Goblin-gate or Moria. If his company's size is less than three, tap Gollum to cancel one attack against his company keyed to Wilderness [w] or Shadow-land [s]. Tap Gollum if he is at the same non-Haven site as The One Ring; then both Gollum and The One Ring are discarded.
Without appropriate CRF entry:
underlined phrase could be readed as mandatory action caused by passive condition*.The text on Gollum is an ability that you can choose to use.
In other words I think that lack of cursives or bold printing in second phrase of Lucky Search is just example of the same (early) style of ICE.
However main moot point is that "playable on untapped X" and subsequent "tap X" may be both considered active conditions or that only first is considered as AC.
@Miguel
I think that your explanation is extraordinary. In such sense that it introduces brand new concepts (two levels of active conditions). This explanation is useful for legitimize some players habituated style of playing some cards.
Personally I think that rules are not for making things more complicated than it is needed, but rather should serve regulation of situations that otherwise (without that rules) would be undefined and as such unplayable.
*) The same for Baduila.
We will not speak of such things even in the morning of the Shire.