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#1. Benedict Giovanni, Agent (grupo 4)
Giovanni (Uncommon)
Capacity: 6
[FOR] [POT] [cel] [dom] [nec]
Independent: During your untap phase, any Giovanni older than the
oldest ready Giovanni you control can burn 1 blood to take control of
Benedict. Benedict cannot block undirected actions.
Am I correct in assuming that the "taking control" of Benedict is
permanent? Since no length of time is mentioned, I'm guessing it is
permanent (or at least until control is stolen again).
#2. Scalpel Tongue
Action Modifier/Reaction (Common)
Celerity/Presence
Costs: 1 Blood
Only usable during a referendum.
[cel] [pre] Choose a vampire who has cast one or more votes in this
referendum. The chosen vampire is tapped and abstains during this
referendum (this cancel's that vampire's votes).
[CEL] [PRE] As above, and the chosen vampire burns 1 blood.
Am I correct in reading that you can choose *any* vampire who has cast
a vote (unlike Telepathic Vote Counting, Under the Skin, and Kindred
Manipulation which all require a *younger* vampire)? Just wanted to
make sure that Mazz can indeed tap and cancel the votes of Gwendolyn.
#3. Just checking that since card text does not specify otherwise, both
Fatuus Mastery and Soul Decoration are stackable. Right?
If so, then stack a few Fatuus Masteries and you can play Sensory
Deprivation every turn at no cost! Alternatively, obtain multiple Soul
Decorations and no one will be able to block you with Auspex. Kinda
harsh when you can freely cancel 2 or 3 Auspex cards each time you act!
#4. Deviki Prasanta
Ally (Rare)
Assamite
Unique ghoul with 2 life, 1 strength, 0 bleed.
If Deviki is ready during your master phase, you may tap Deviki to
search your library or ash heap for a master: Discipline card and place
that card on a ready Assamite you control.
Since you place the card on the Assamite (which differs from "playing"
the card), I assume that you can give a vampire a discipline he already
has at superior just for the capacity increase? For example, give
Harika 10 Quietus skill cards to give her super-duper Quietus and
capacity 13?
#5. Dis Pater
Master (Rare)
Giovanni
Unique master.
Put this card in play. Once each action, when a Giovanni you control
successfully bleeds your prey, you may remove seven cards in your ash
heap from the game to give that action +1 bleed
Since using the ability requires "successfully bleeding your prey," am
I correct in assuming it has a similar timing window as Spying Mission,
and thus one cannot Deflect or Telepathically Misdirect when Dis Pater
is used (since it would be too late)?
#6. Sudario Refraction
Action (Rare)
Giovanni
+1 stealth action.
Choose three cards in your ash heap and move them to the top of your
library. Then, discard three cards at random from your hand (and draw
up to your hand size afterward).
Is the "and draw up to your hand size afterward" an instruction or
simply reminder text? For example, if Meddling of Semsith is in play
targeting you and you play Sudario Refraction, would the directive to
"draw up to your hand size" override the Meddling effect? Or is it just
reminder text?
#7. Bujo
Political Action (Rare)
Ravnos
+1 stealth political action.
Choose a political action card in another Methuselah's ash heap. Call
the referendum given on that card (this Ravnos must meet the
requirements of that political action, if any) and remove that card
from the game. This vampire gains 3 additional votes in this
referendum.
What happens if you play a Bujo, choosing another Bujo? The Bujo is a
political action card but has no referendum on the card.
#8. Inquisition
Action (Starter Gangrel antitribu)
Requires a ready Sabbat vampire. +1 stealth action.
(D) Choose one or more bishops. Each of the chosen bishops loses his or
her title and takes 2 unpreventable damage. The controllers of the
chosen bishops may attempt to block in addition to the normally
eligible blockers.
This odd cards seems to play havoc with standard targeting rules.
Previous precedent seems to have ruled that if an action has multiple
targets controlled by different Methusalehs, then the action is
undirected. For example, using Mehemet's special on a vampire and
discipline card both controlled by your prey is directed. But using his
special on a vampire controlled by your prey and a discipline card
controlled by your predator makes the action undirected.
Inquisition has a "(D)" sign. But since you can choose multiple bishops
controlled by different players, does this make it a (D) action
targeting every other Methusaleh who controls a minion you have chosen
or just an undirected action (the clause allowing additional blockers
seems to imply this)? This may be especially important for cards like
inferior Sonar and Warnings Signs which only work on directed actions.
Based on the previous Mehemet precedent, I would argue that if you play
Inquisition on a bishop controlled by your grandprey and a bishop
controlled by your grandpredator, then the action is an *undirected*
action that your grandprey, grandpredator, predator, and prey can all
attempt to block. Correct?
#9. Anarch Secession (grupo 4)
Action (Rare)
+1 stealth action. Requires a ready non-anarch, titled vampire.
Put an anarch counter on this acting vampire. This vampire becomes
anarch (and Independent). If he or she had a city title, he or she
becomes the baron of the same city as his or her previous title.
Minions without titles cannot block this action. Burn the anarch
counter if this vampire changes sects.
Currently, the only "city titles" are Prince, Archbishop, and Baron.
(Though Barons cannot play Anarch Secession). Correct?
#10. Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario
Master (Rare)
Cost: 4 pool.
Master: unique location. Hunting ground.
During your untap phase, you may move 1 blood from the blood bank to a
ready vampire you control. Any other Methuselah may give you a pool
during his or her untap phase to tap this card to move 1 blood from the
blood bank to a ready vampire he or she controls. A vampire can gain
blood from only one Hunting Ground card each turn.
If multiple Methuselahs want to give you a pool to gain a blood, then I
assume the order of priority is based on standard procedure (clockwise
from the acting player)? So a player's prey will have the chance to use
it before the player's predator can, correct?
#11. Not to Be
Master (Rare)
Cost: 1 pool
Master: out-of-turn.
Cancel an event card as it is played (no cost is paid). Put this card
in play. During your master phase, you get one additional master phase
action. During your discard phase, you get one fewer discard phase
action, and this card is burned.
If a player manages to gain control of multiple Not to Be's, what
happens if he has a negative number of discard phase actions? For
example, a player controls 3 Not to Be's. During his discard phase, he
would have -2 discard phase actions. Also, if he then taps Powerbase:
Los Angeles to gain a discard phase action, does he get to use it or is
it instantly eaten up by one of the Not to Be's?
#12. Threestar Cab Company
Master (Starter Anathema)
Cost: 3 pool.
Master: unique location. Hunting Ground.
Tap during your master phase to move a blood from the blood bank to
this card. Tap during your untap phase to move 1 blood from this card
to your pool or to a ready vampire you control. A vampire can only gain
blood from one Hunting Ground card each turn.
You can use the Church of the Order of St. Blaise on Threestar Cab
Company, right?
#13. Trophy: Clan Respect
Master (Rare)
Master. Trophy.
When this card enters play, choose a clan. Vampires of the chosen clan
cannot block the vampire with this card.
If Ventrue is chosen as the Trophy Clan, Sonja Blue can still attempt
to block right? (Since she would be blocking as an ally and not as a
member of the chosen clan).
#14. Sonja Blue (grupo 4)
Ventrue (Uncommon)
Capacity: 5
[CEL] [FOR] [PRE] [dom] [pot]
Independent: Gain 4 pool when Sonja is moved to the ready region in
your influence phase. Sonja may remove a vampire's title as a (D)
action. She may block as an ally (but remains a vampire in combat).
During your prey's discard phase, your predator may burn 1 pool to move
Sonja to his or her ready region. If Sonja leaves play, remove her from
the game.
If Sonja Blue "blocks as an ally" when Caiaphas Smith is acting, what
happens? Does the world explode?
And finally, not exactly a new KMW card but...
#15. Carver's Meat Packing and Storage [Gehenna:R]
Cardtype: Master
Cost: 1 pool
Master. unique location.
When a vampire of capacity below 4 goes to torpor, put a hostage
counter on him. Hostages cannot be moved to the ready region or be
diablerized. During your master phase, you may tap this card to move X
blood from the blood bank to a ready vampire you control where X is the
number of hostages in torpor. Any ready vampire may burn 2 blood to
burn any vampire's hostage counter during any untap phase. Burn all
hostage counters if this card leaves play.
Card text states that "hostages cannot be moved to the ready region."
Clearly this means that a hostage cannot take the leave torpor action
or be rescued by another vampire, or even moved to the ready region by
Alia. But what happens if a hostage in torpor is moved to the
uncontrolled region (via Banishment of Peace of Khetamon) and then
influenced out again? He/she is still a hostage and Carver's says that
the hostage cannot be moved to the ready region. Does the vampire
remain in a state of limbo or does he stay in the uncontrolled region?
Okay, that's about it for now. I look forward to reading the answers!
With regards,
Eric Chiang
#1. Benedict Giovanni, Agent (grupo 4)
Giovanni (Uncommon)
Capacity: 6
[FOR] [POT] [cel] [dom] [nec]
Independent: During your untap phase, any Giovanni older than the
oldest ready Giovanni you control can burn 1 blood to take control of
Benedict. Benedict cannot block undirected actions.
Am I correct in assuming that the "taking control" of Benedict is
permanent? Since no length of time is mentioned, I'm guessing it is
permanent (or at least until control is stolen again).
#2. Scalpel Tongue
Action Modifier/Reaction (Common)
Celerity/Presence
Costs: 1 Blood
Only usable during a referendum.
[cel] [pre] Choose a vampire who has cast one or more votes in this
referendum. The chosen vampire is tapped and abstains during this
referendum (this cancel's that vampire's votes).
[CEL] [PRE] As above, and the chosen vampire burns 1 blood.
Am I correct in reading that you can choose *any* vampire who has cast
a vote (unlike Telepathic Vote Counting, Under the Skin, and Kindred
Manipulation which all require a *younger* vampire)? Just wanted to
make sure that Mazz can indeed tap and cancel the votes of Gwendolyn.
#3. Just checking that since card text does not specify otherwise, both
Fatuus Mastery and Soul Decoration are stackable. Right?
If so, then stack a few Fatuus Masteries and you can play Sensory
Deprivation every turn at no cost! Alternatively, obtain multiple Soul
Decorations and no one will be able to block you with Auspex. Kinda
harsh when you can freely cancel 2 or 3 Auspex cards each time you act!
#4. Deviki Prasanta
Ally (Rare)
Assamite
Unique ghoul with 2 life, 1 strength, 0 bleed.
If Deviki is ready during your master phase, you may tap Deviki to
search your library or ash heap for a master: Discipline card and place
that card on a ready Assamite you control.
Since you place the card on the Assamite (which differs from "playing"
the card), I assume that you can give a vampire a discipline he already
has at superior just for the capacity increase? For example, give
Harika 10 Quietus skill cards to give her super-duper Quietus and
capacity 13?
#5. Dis Pater
Master (Rare)
Giovanni
Unique master.
Put this card in play. Once each action, when a Giovanni you control
successfully bleeds your prey, you may remove seven cards in your ash
heap from the game to give that action +1 bleed
Since using the ability requires "successfully bleeding your prey," am
I correct in assuming it has a similar timing window as Spying Mission,
and thus one cannot Deflect or Telepathically Misdirect when Dis Pater
is used (since it would be too late)?
#6. Sudario Refraction
Action (Rare)
Giovanni
+1 stealth action.
Choose three cards in your ash heap and move them to the top of your
library. Then, discard three cards at random from your hand (and draw
up to your hand size afterward).
Is the "and draw up to your hand size afterward" an instruction or
simply reminder text? For example, if Meddling of Semsith is in play
targeting you and you play Sudario Refraction, would the directive to
"draw up to your hand size" override the Meddling effect? Or is it just
reminder text?
#7. Bujo
Political Action (Rare)
Ravnos
+1 stealth political action.
Choose a political action card in another Methuselah's ash heap. Call
the referendum given on that card (this Ravnos must meet the
requirements of that political action, if any) and remove that card
from the game. This vampire gains 3 additional votes in this
referendum.
What happens if you play a Bujo, choosing another Bujo? The Bujo is a
political action card but has no referendum on the card.
#8. Inquisition
Action (Starter Gangrel antitribu)
Requires a ready Sabbat vampire. +1 stealth action.
(D) Choose one or more bishops. Each of the chosen bishops loses his or
her title and takes 2 unpreventable damage. The controllers of the
chosen bishops may attempt to block in addition to the normally
eligible blockers.
This odd cards seems to play havoc with standard targeting rules.
Previous precedent seems to have ruled that if an action has multiple
targets controlled by different Methusalehs, then the action is
undirected. For example, using Mehemet's special on a vampire and
discipline card both controlled by your prey is directed. But using his
special on a vampire controlled by your prey and a discipline card
controlled by your predator makes the action undirected.
Inquisition has a "(D)" sign. But since you can choose multiple bishops
controlled by different players, does this make it a (D) action
targeting every other Methusaleh who controls a minion you have chosen
or just an undirected action (the clause allowing additional blockers
seems to imply this)? This may be especially important for cards like
inferior Sonar and Warnings Signs which only work on directed actions.
Based on the previous Mehemet precedent, I would argue that if you play
Inquisition on a bishop controlled by your grandprey and a bishop
controlled by your grandpredator, then the action is an *undirected*
action that your grandprey, grandpredator, predator, and prey can all
attempt to block. Correct?
#9. Anarch Secession (grupo 4)
Action (Rare)
+1 stealth action. Requires a ready non-anarch, titled vampire.
Put an anarch counter on this acting vampire. This vampire becomes
anarch (and Independent). If he or she had a city title, he or she
becomes the baron of the same city as his or her previous title.
Minions without titles cannot block this action. Burn the anarch
counter if this vampire changes sects.
Currently, the only "city titles" are Prince, Archbishop, and Baron.
(Though Barons cannot play Anarch Secession). Correct?
#10. Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario
Master (Rare)
Cost: 4 pool.
Master: unique location. Hunting ground.
During your untap phase, you may move 1 blood from the blood bank to a
ready vampire you control. Any other Methuselah may give you a pool
during his or her untap phase to tap this card to move 1 blood from the
blood bank to a ready vampire he or she controls. A vampire can gain
blood from only one Hunting Ground card each turn.
If multiple Methuselahs want to give you a pool to gain a blood, then I
assume the order of priority is based on standard procedure (clockwise
from the acting player)? So a player's prey will have the chance to use
it before the player's predator can, correct?
#11. Not to Be
Master (Rare)
Cost: 1 pool
Master: out-of-turn.
Cancel an event card as it is played (no cost is paid). Put this card
in play. During your master phase, you get one additional master phase
action. During your discard phase, you get one fewer discard phase
action, and this card is burned.
If a player manages to gain control of multiple Not to Be's, what
happens if he has a negative number of discard phase actions? For
example, a player controls 3 Not to Be's. During his discard phase, he
would have -2 discard phase actions. Also, if he then taps Powerbase:
Los Angeles to gain a discard phase action, does he get to use it or is
it instantly eaten up by one of the Not to Be's?
#12. Threestar Cab Company
Master (Starter Anathema)
Cost: 3 pool.
Master: unique location. Hunting Ground.
Tap during your master phase to move a blood from the blood bank to
this card. Tap during your untap phase to move 1 blood from this card
to your pool or to a ready vampire you control. A vampire can only gain
blood from one Hunting Ground card each turn.
You can use the Church of the Order of St. Blaise on Threestar Cab
Company, right?
#13. Trophy: Clan Respect
Master (Rare)
Master. Trophy.
When this card enters play, choose a clan. Vampires of the chosen clan
cannot block the vampire with this card.
If Ventrue is chosen as the Trophy Clan, Sonja Blue can still attempt
to block right? (Since she would be blocking as an ally and not as a
member of the chosen clan).
#14. Sonja Blue (grupo 4)
Ventrue (Uncommon)
Capacity: 5
[CEL] [FOR] [PRE] [dom] [pot]
Independent: Gain 4 pool when Sonja is moved to the ready region in
your influence phase. Sonja may remove a vampire's title as a (D)
action. She may block as an ally (but remains a vampire in combat).
During your prey's discard phase, your predator may burn 1 pool to move
Sonja to his or her ready region. If Sonja leaves play, remove her from
the game.
If Sonja Blue "blocks as an ally" when Caiaphas Smith is acting, what
happens? Does the world explode?
And finally, not exactly a new KMW card but...
#15. Carver's Meat Packing and Storage [Gehenna:R]
Cardtype: Master
Cost: 1 pool
Master. unique location.
When a vampire of capacity below 4 goes to torpor, put a hostage
counter on him. Hostages cannot be moved to the ready region or be
diablerized. During your master phase, you may tap this card to move X
blood from the blood bank to a ready vampire you control where X is the
number of hostages in torpor. Any ready vampire may burn 2 blood to
burn any vampire's hostage counter during any untap phase. Burn all
hostage counters if this card leaves play.
Card text states that "hostages cannot be moved to the ready region."
Clearly this means that a hostage cannot take the leave torpor action
or be rescued by another vampire, or even moved to the ready region by
Alia. But what happens if a hostage in torpor is moved to the
uncontrolled region (via Banishment of Peace of Khetamon) and then
influenced out again? He/she is still a hostage and Carver's says that
the hostage cannot be moved to the ready region. Does the vampire
remain in a state of limbo or does he stay in the uncontrolled region?
Okay, that's about it for now. I look forward to reading the answers!
With regards,
Eric Chiang