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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Minor note about new printings
« on: October 26, 2020, 02:04:33 pm »- Noble Brigand has been rephrased so that it has a dividing line before the when-buy ability. To get the text to fit on the card, it says "do its attack"; this means, do the above-the-line part except for the +$1.Why??
Noble Brigand: Action - Attack, $4
+$1
Each other player reveals the top 2 cards of their deck, trashes a revealed Silver or Gold you choose, discards the rest, and gains a Copper if they didn't reveal a Treasure. You gain the trashed cards.
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When you buy this, do its attack.
I like the other tweaks, but I don't see the point of this.
It makes perfect sense. Like other on-gain/on-buy effects it is separated by a dividing line. Even more important, in our playing groups it happened more than once that we forgot this ability because it was hidden in a wall of text.
It's definitely going to cause more confusion about whether you can react with Moat etc. to buying Noble Brigand.
I agree with this, and I also think it will cause more confusion about things like "can you react with Moat when a player plays Minion for +". It's been a good thing that "attack" in Dominion has been clearly defined as "a card that has the type 'attack'." It's not "a thing you do that hurts other players" or "an ability that feels like an attack". With this change, Noble Brigand suddenly introduces a new use/definition for the word "attack". A usage that players have to rely on intuition to know the meaning of.
I have mixed feelings about "attack" in a card text. Of course everybody recognize what the "attack" of a card is. But until now "attack" was defined just as card type. The attack itself were some orders beginning with "each other player" and so by principle not different then orders for the player of the card. Especially in translation processes we have had troubles until the printer grasped the difference between type and orders other players have to do.
So will there be an additional rule about "attack"? Or will this problem get tackled by Noble Brigand's FAQ only?
Additional problem: The attack is the revealing and trashing by the other players. The gaining of the trashed cards is in seperate sentence and as such not recognizable as part of the attack.