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Here Is a Snake!: when it is too late to play this card?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:59 pm
by Konrad Klar
Here Is a Snake! wrote:Playable on a company during its movement/hazard phase after cards have been drawn. Opponent may reveal to you any number of hazards from his hand. He may only play hazards he revealed to you (including on-guard cards) for the remainder of target company's movement/hazard phase. Alternatively, a face-down agent is tapped and revealed.
CRF, Turn Sequence, Movement/Hazard Phase, General wrote:Annotation 25b: Players drawing cards when a new site is revealed is synonymous
with the resolution of the new site being revealed. It happens immediately, not in the
following chain of effects.
According to Annotation 25b it is not possible to declare anything not exceptional (like The Reach of Ulmo) before eventual drawing a cards for movement will be made.
Any valid declaration in M/H phase must be made after this point. So is "Playable on a company during its movement/hazard phase after cards have been drawn." completely redundant with Annotation 25b, thus meaningless? Or meaning of this text is that Here Is a Snake! may not be played for non-moving companies (or moving companies under effect od Smaug at Home)? Or something else?
Re: Here Is a Snake!: when it is too late to play this card?
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 4:19 am
by Bandobras Took
The wording does prohibit playing it if no cards have been drawn. My hunch is that it's a redundancy, but we have to go with what's written.
Re: Here Is a Snake!: when it is too late to play this card?
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 7:25 am
by Konrad Klar
Consider also special text of cards like minion Himring. Literally it would not be in force if overt company begin moving to minion Himring already in play (site is not revealed).
Either: it may be very imprecise reference to beginnnig of M/H phase, or literal references to revealing a site card (Himring), or act of drawing a cards for movement (Here Is a Snake!).*
Himring wrote:Nearest Darkhaven: Geann a-Lisch Playable: Items (minor, major) Automatic-attacks: Undead - 1 strike with 8 prowess; each character wounded must make a corruption check modified by -2 Special: An overt company must tap an untapped character (if available) if this site is revealed as its new site.
*) Thanks for hint with A Chance Meeting (mentioned recently by you
here).
Similar situation: either this card refer specifically to hobbits, or generally to characters that can be brought into play only at their home sites.
