Theo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 9:40 pmCould a reference be provided for this notion of "just a reference to Region Types"? I have searched my sources in vain.
One implication would be that Withered Lands could not be used (preemptively) to change the region types that appear on Elven Cloak/Shadow-cloak, to change what they can cancel. (This is under a "strikes inherit from attack properties" assumption that allows these cloaks to cancel anything. O_o)
In much the same way that a card that requires a scout is not a scout, and a card that targets an agent is not an agent, a card that requires or targets a region does not become a region simply by virtue of the symbol that lets you know what it affects in the first place.
Withered Lands must target a Wilderness.
Elven Cloak allows the cancellation of an attack keyed to Wilderness.
One cannot change Elven Cloak's ability with Withered Lands, because the Wilderness mentioned in Elven Cloak is not a distinct entity, and therefore cannot be a target. You cannot use the Wilderness Symbol on Elven Cloak as part of the site path for a company. Instead, it is a limiter on the kind of attacks that Elven Cloak can cancel. A reference, as was said.
There are six types of regions and six types of sites:
If a card is not already a region or a site, then any such symbols on a card merely refer to the type of region/site that can be affected/used by the card.
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