Suppose that I play a Village, and then Band of Misfits as Conspirator. Do I get the +1 Card/+1 Action?
No. BoM is played as another card, and that's just one card total being played.
Alright, I guess a Donald X. ruling is good enough for me to play it that way. I'm still a little shaky on why though.
Doesn't Conspirator count played actions, not cards? So one card total doesn't necessarily mean one played action total. Like KC/Conspirator, where two cards are played, but the second play of Conspirator gets the bonus, since you've now played KC and 2 Conspirators, one of them not represented by a card.
I don't see how I could choose Conspirator without taking an action to do so, and choosing Conspirator is not on the Conspirator card, so it can't be part of the BoM as Conspirator action, so it must be part of the BoM action. Unless maybe choosing Conspirator is an instruction you follow on a played Action card that doesn't count as a played Action?
Maybe the full action is choosing Conspirator, then following the Conspirator actions as though they were on the same card as BoM. But then, if you copied the BoM/Conspirator action with KC, you would be forced to choose Conspirator each time, which doesn't happen with things like Pawn. Which is why I thought it went BoM, then BoM as Conspirator, which is the action you triple with a KC. FAQ specifically addresses it, so it could just be an exception to the rule.
I'm pretty certain that BoM's "play this as if..." clause means more "when you play this, play it as if..." meaning that it affects how it is played without playing itself again.
But it doesn't say that... it says "Play this as if". Adding those words changes the meaning (well, maybe at least the English meaning, if not the card's interpretation.)
If it said "Play a card from your hand as if it was Scout", I would not interpret that as meaning all cards played from your hand are now Scout, but as meaning take a card from your hand and play it, treating it as Scout. The only difference is that instead of a card from your hand, BoM is naming itself.
If you're concerned about "a card from your hand" being one of multiple possible cards, and thus different than a unique card, "this card", then it could read "the card in your hand furthest to the left", or "the first card you played this turn".