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Dominion => Rules Questions => Topic started by: popsofctown on December 04, 2017, 05:38:01 pm
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Online, if you Moat an Ambassador, and no copies are returned, you don't see what is revealed.
I was going to make a bug thread, but then I realized there's a left field interpretation of the rules where that is correct??? Maybe???
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Online, if you Moat an Ambassador, and no copies are returned, you don't see what is revealed.
I was going to make a bug thread, but then I realized there's a left field interpretation of the rules where that is correct??? Maybe???
"Reveal a card from your hand" is how Ambassador starts. You reveal a card!
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Online, if you Moat an Ambassador, and no copies are returned, you don't see what is revealed.
I was going to make a bug thread, but then I realized there's a left field interpretation of the rules where that is correct??? Maybe???
"Reveal a card from your hand" is how Ambassador starts. You reveal a card!
Maybe there is an argument to be made that, because of moat, you are unaffected by the attack, and having the card revealed to you is an effect of the attack.
I think it's a bad argument, though.
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Online, if you Moat an Ambassador, and no copies are returned, you don't see what is revealed.
I was going to make a bug thread, but then I realized there's a left field interpretation of the rules where that is correct??? Maybe???
"Reveal a card from your hand" is how Ambassador starts. You reveal a card!
Maybe there is an argument to be made that, because of moat, you are unaffected by the attack, and having the card revealed to you is an effect of the attack.
I think it's a bad argument, though.
By that bad argument, once you've Moated you have to close your eyes (and block your ears if the Attacker is announcing their actions) so the Attack can't affect you by making you witness what it does.
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Online, if you Moat an Ambassador, and no copies are returned, you don't see what is revealed.
I was going to make a bug thread, but then I realized there's a left field interpretation of the rules where that is correct??? Maybe???
"Reveal a card from your hand" is how Ambassador starts. You reveal a card!
Maybe there is an argument to be made that, because of moat, you are unaffected by the attack, and having the card revealed to you is an effect of the attack.
I think it's a bad argument, though.
By that bad argument, once you've Moated you have to close your eyes (and block your ears if the Attacker is announcing their actions) so the Attack can't affect you by making you witness what it does.
But closing your eyes and blocking your ears is an effect of them playing the attack card.
In fact, revealing the Moat is an effect of them playing the attack card! Santa Claus now exists.
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I guess a vaguely important point here is that when you reveal a card, you are not revealing it to the other player/s, or interacting with them at all, you're adding the identity of that card to the set of public information, which is by definition available to all players at all times.
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The other day my opponent played Torturer, and I revealed Moat but it didn't work. Despite Moat's promise that I wouldn't be affected, I still felt deeply hurt that my opponent would play a Torturer.
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Yes, by that logic you shouldn't witness that your opponent draws 2 cards with Witch either. That information is just as public as a card being revealed.
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Ah, but you don't need to see that your opponent draws 2 cards with Witch—you know that they'll do that anyway; the card forces them to.
You don't get to see how many cards they drew with Scrying Pool though. :)