LSJ Status Perfectus question

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With this card in play by player C.

A is acting.

B blocks with an anarch minion.

Can C envoke the special text to enter combat with A?

Raille

 

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"When a blocking anarch has just completed combat with an acting
minion, you may tap this card and choose a ready untapped anarch you
control other than the blocking anarch"

i think that this sentence clarifies that the blocking minion must be
yours

 

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ThE OnLy VipeR wrote:
> "When a blocking anarch has just completed combat with an acting
> minion, you may tap this card and choose a ready untapped anarch you
> control other than the blocking anarch"
>
> i think that this sentence clarifies that the blocking minion must be
> yours

You are incorrect.

"When a blocking anarch has just completed combat" does not include any
limitation on the controller of that blocking anarch.

The only limit on the control of the vampires imposed by the card text
is that you must control the anarch being selected to enter the new
combat.

You must choose an anarch you control to enter combat, and that anarch
cannot also have been the blocking minion. But you can jump your minion
into a follow-up combat after somebody else's anarch blocks freely.

(Note that you can't enter combat with your own minion by the rules,
still, so if your acting vampire gets blocked by an anarch you can't
subsequently use TSP to enter combat with your own minion.)

-John Flournoy

 

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"John Flournoy" <carneggy@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1109871360.787899.60060@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> ThE OnLy VipeR wrote:
> > [Re: Status Perfectus]
> > "When a blocking anarch has just completed combat with an acting
> > minion, you may tap this card and choose a ready untapped anarch you
> > control other than the blocking anarch"
> >
> > i think that this sentence clarifies that the blocking minion must be
> > yours
>
> You are incorrect.
>
> "When a blocking anarch has just completed combat" does not include any
> limitation on the controller of that blocking anarch.
>
> The only limit on the control of the vampires imposed by the card text
> is that you must control the anarch being selected to enter the new
> combat.
>
> You must choose an anarch you control to enter combat, and that anarch
> cannot also have been the blocking minion. But you can jump your minion
> into a follow-up combat after somebody else's anarch blocks freely.
>
> (Note that you can't enter combat with your own minion by the rules,
> still, so if your acting vampire gets blocked by an anarch you can't
> subsequently use TSP to enter combat with your own minion.)

Correct.

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