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"Pat" <patrick.lusk.nospam@comcast.nyetspam.net> wrote in message
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> "LSJ" <vtesrepSPAM@TRAPwhite-wolf.com> wrote in message
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>> Raille wrote:
>>> "LSJ" <vtesrepSPAM@TRAPwhite-wolf.com> wrote in message
>>>>"Daneel" <daniel@eposta.hu> wrote in message
>>>>>If I control Smiling Jack, during my untap phase I move a
>>>>> counter from my pool to the card, and then give the card
>>>>> to another Methuselah with the Succubus Club, will I need
>>>>> to burn a blood/pool for each counter the card has during
>>>>> the same untap phase?
>>>>
>>>>Yes.
>>>
>>> Would it be legal to declare that you have paid that penalty before you
>>> send the card off to another player? You *do* have the option of
>>> ordering your phase as you see fit. There seems to be nothing from
>>> stopping a player from declaring the Jack penalty even if it does not
>>> currently effect them.
>>
>> Card text. Only "other" Methuselahs pay the penalty in question.
>>
>> You can move Smiling Jack before you pay your one pool "you" penalty,
>> but you'll still have to pay the X pool/blood "others" penalty when
>> you are among the "others".
>>
>> --
>
> Another way to look at it is that you can't finish your untap (or any
> other
> phase) without handling all the things that are pending in that phase.
>
> You handle the "you" penalty by transferring SJ, so no need to move the
> one
> pool to Jack. But that queues up another untap phase thing that you have
> to
> handle before you can move to your master phase.
>
> I'm not saying anything different about the specific Succubus Jack
> situation, of course, but Josh Duffin explained something similar this way
> to me once, and I've found it's a good general rule for all sorts of
> things.
>
> Josh is useful that way.
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>
> - Pat
Looks clear enough for me. I didn't take the time to pull up the specific
card text.
Raille