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Hooloovoo |
A follow up on this, since my brain is in 'exact rules' mode at the moment. A little imp in my head asked me the following questions and I don't have a good answer for it:
"When you summon a card, you are supposed to put it back in the box after you are done with it unless the card doing the summoning explicitly states otherwise. So, when you 'summon and acquire' a boon to close a location, is the 'acquired' boon put in your hand or put back in the box?
As a follow-up, if Balazar has to 'summon and defeat' a monster, can he use his power to put the defeated summoned monster in his hand, or should it be put back in the box?"
The imp in my head cheerfully points out that the answer to the first question seems like it should be 'Of course it goes in your hand' while the answer to the second question seems like it should be 'Nope, it was summoned, so it goes back in the box.' Then the imp cackles gleefully while declaring that the answers to both questions should be exactly the same.
Can anyone help me parse out a resolution? Or at least explain why one of my seeming answers does not really make sense? Thanks for your help in rules imp squishing!
Riff Conner |
Cards have precedence over the rulebook. So a location telling you to acquire a card overrules the rule to return the card to the box, and Balazar telling you to put the monster in your hand does likewise.
edit: interestingly, locations have higher precedence than characters, so if for some reason a condition to close was worded as "summon and encounter a monster, and then return it to the box", Balazar couldn't have it.
Hawkmoon269 |
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After evading a summoned card or resolving the encounter with it, never put it anywhere other than back in the box unless the card that caused you to summon it instructs you otherwise.
When a location says "summon and acquire" the card that instructed you to summon a card tells you to do something with it, acquire it by succeeding at the check to acquire it. And acquiring it means putting it in your hand. So you are being instructed otherwise by the summoning card.
For Balazar, the card that instructed you to summon a monster isn't Balazar's card, so his card can't instruct you to do something different.
So, no, he can't add summoned monsters to his hand.
Sandslice |
Cards have precedence over the rulebook. So a location telling you to acquire a card overrules the rule to return the card to the box, and Balazar telling you to put the monster in your hand does likewise.
Never is a critical term, and trumps all other considerations. Because the general instruction is a "never" instruction, ONLY the summoning card is allowed to have an exception to it. :)
Frencois |
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When a location says "summon and acquire" the card that instructed you to summon a card tells you to do something with it, acquire it by succeeding at the check to acquire it. [...]
If not-this-Mike didn't want you to keep the boon, he would have written something like "summon a random boon from the box. Succeed at a check to acquire that boon to close this location.""