Kyra's healing ability

[sador42]

Since Kyra's healing ability states it should be used "Instead of your first exploration on a turn," do you have to be able to explore in order to use it?

In other words, if Kyra is at a closed location with no cards to explore, can she use her explore phase to still heal even though there are no cards to explore?

[austinmonster]

I would imagine. I can't think of a scenario where she can't explore though. Move comes before explore, so she should always be able to move to a location that she can explore.

[Mike Selinker]

Yeah, she can do that even if she stays at the closed location. She still gets the "You may explore once per turn" at the location, even though no card is there to explore. So she can swap it out for healing.

[Blue_Hill]

I have question about this ability too. Can Kyra use her ability on herself? It says that she chooses character on her location, so can she choose herself? I can see reasons for both rulings but official/semi-official answer would be nice. It is very powerful ability if she can use it to herself.

[Mechalibur]

Blue_Hill wrote:

I have question about this ability too. Can Kyra use her ability on herself? It says that she chooses character on her location, so can she choose herself? I can see reasons for both rulings but official/semi-official answer would be nice. It is very powerful ability if she can use it to herself.

Yes. This applies to all similarly worded effects.

[Kirk Bauer]

There are some scenarios where you might want to stay in a place where you can't explore. Perhaps you are close to death and scenario is almost over and you don't want to risk getting group damage. Perhaps another player can heal you on their turn and they are already there. Perhaps another player already with you wants to give you a card at the start of their turn.

[TClifford]

She is a character and she is in the same location with herself, so she can use the power on herself. It doesn't say other character like say Lem's power.

[Ogee]

Though I find Kyra's healing ability very very useful. I have found that it can be a bane too. You can use up turns that could end up very needed toward the end of the scenario. So, it is best, if your cards allow, to also be able to discard another card after the heal, to get at least one exploration done on the turn.

[Myriade]

Ogee wrote:

Though I find Kyra's healing ability very very useful. I have found that it can be a bane too. You can use up turns that could end up very needed toward the end of the scenario. So, it is best, if your cards allow, to also be able to discard another card after the heal, to get at least one exploration done on the turn.

Yes, but that's what is great about this game. You have to use strategy, and balance between taking risks (in this exemple not healing) and running out of time (i.e. healing too much).

[TClifford]

Yea, that is why a lot of people think that Lem is the better healer. Because he has the ability to pull Cure spells out of the discard pile when ever he discards a spell card, he can Cure on the fly.