Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Rules Questions => Topic started by: Asper on June 10, 2016, 10:57:51 am
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The new Possession errata states that i get all tokens the Possessed player would have gotten, so, obviously, i get VP tokens, coin tokens or debt tokens the possessed player would have gotten. So much for that. But what about spending tokens? From my reading, these are the official Possession rules by now:
- I may make my possessed opponent spend his coin tokens (in addition to getting my own for his Baker), but may not have him spend mine
- I may make my possessed opponent pay off his Debt tokens, but may not have him pay off mine
- I may make my possessed opponent buy any number of Debt cards (regardless of my own debt) as long as he has no Debt of his own
Edited to make clearer who does what.
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That seems right to me. It's your opponents turn, but you just steal the stuff they would have gotten.
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That's all correct. I think the overall point that answers all of those is that your opponent can't do anything on his possessed turn that he couldn't do on his regular turn... so this means he can't pay off your debt tokens, or spend your coin tokens.
The sort-of exception is that on his regular turn, if he has 5 buys and only $2 to spend, he can't buy 5 Royal Blacksmiths, because after the first one he would have debt that prevents him from buying anything, whereas on his possessed turn, he can buy 5 Royal Blacksmiths without ever getting any debt to pay off.
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That's all correct. I think the overall point that answers all of those is that your opponent can't do anything on his possessed turn that he couldn't do on his regular turn... so this means he can't pay off your debt tokens, or spend your coin tokens.
The sort-of exception is that on his regular turn, if he has 5 buys and only $2 to spend, he can't buy 5 Royal Blacksmiths, because after the first one he would have debt that prevents him from buying anything, whereas on his possessed turn, he can buy 5 Royal Blacksmiths without ever getting any debt to pay off.
Interestingly, this also means that Debt can be used to counter Possession. Get indebted a little bit and then have your Possessor pay it off if he wants to use your deck for anything. Together with the fact that he can't make me pay off debt cards he makes me buy, this means Debt tokens still throw a wrench into how well Possession works.
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The new Possession errata states that i get all tokens the Possessed player would have gotten, so, obviously, i get VP tokens, coin tokens or debt tokens the possessed player would have gotten. So much for that. But what about spending tokens? From my reading, these are the official Possession rules by now:
- I may make my possessed opponent spend his coin tokens (in addition to getting my own for his Baker), but may not have him spend mine
- I may make my possessed opponent pay off his Debt tokens, but may not have him pay off mine
- I may make my possessed opponent buy any number of Debt cards (regardless of my own debt) as long as he has no Debt of his own
Edited to make clearer who does what.
Yes. They take a regular turn in which you make decisions and take any gained cards or tokens.
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The sort-of exception is that on his regular turn, if he has 5 buys and only $2 to spend, he can't buy 5 Royal Blacksmiths, because after the first one he would have debt that prevents him from buying anything, whereas on his possessed turn, he can buy 5 Royal Blacksmiths without ever getting any debt to pay off.
On the flipside, if he had $8 to spend, i would still get all the debt tokens from Royal Blacksmith, as he can't pay for those.