Deadly Dealer and Enhancements

[UnitedWeStand]

The final paragraph of the "Deadly Dealer" feat reads:

Quote:

A spellcaster with this feat can enhance a deck of cards as though it were a ranged weapon with 54 pieces of ammunition. This enhancement functions only when used in tandem with this feat, and has no affect on any other way the cards might be used. Only a character who possesses this feat can make use of an enhanced deck of cards, and must still use the Arcane Strike feat to activate the cards’ enhancement.

When I first looked at the feat it seemed to me that in order to use this feat one would have to pay for the enhancements as if the cards were ammunition. However upon reading that paragraph I'm not quite as convinced.

So my question is this: does this feat allow us to treat a deck as a weapon for which we simply have to buy more ammunition for in order for the enhancements to stay with us or do we have to spend gold on enhancing the cards as if they were ammunition?

[Darksol the Painbringer]

UnitedWeStand wrote:

The final paragraph of the "Deadly Dealer" feat reads:

Quote:

A spellcaster with this feat can enhance a deck of cards as though it were a ranged weapon with 54 pieces of ammunition. This enhancement functions only when used in tandem with this feat, and has no affect on any other way the cards might be used. Only a character who possesses this feat can make use of an enhanced deck of cards, and must still use the Arcane Strike feat to activate the cards’ enhancement.

When I first looked at the feat it seemed to me that in order to use this feat one would have to pay for the enhancements as if the cards were ammunition. However upon reading that paragraph I'm not quite as convinced.

So my question is this: does this feat allow us to treat a deck as a weapon for which we simply have to buy more ammunition for in order for the enhancements to stay with us or do we have to spend gold on enhancing the cards as if they were ammunition?

By RAW, the bolded part answers your question.

You can enhance it as if it were a ranged weapon that comes with a 54-ammunition "holster" (which is the pack that the deck of cards comes from). Once you burn through those 54 cards, you have to restock them as if they were any other ammunition.

To be honest, this not only seems inoptimal, but quite unclarified; what damage does a single card do? What about type, critical multipliers, properties, etc.? Should it be a thrown weapon for damage calculations?

There's so much more wrong with this than the question you asked.

[Duiker]

It's very cut and dry if you read the entire feat:

"You can throw a card as though it were a dart, with the same damage, range, and other features. You must use the Arcane Strike feat when throwing a card in this way, or else the card lacks the magical force and precision to deal lethal damage. A card is destroyed when thrown in this way."

[UnitedWeStand]

Alright thanks guys :)