Seltyiel and Spellmaster's Tricorne

[mercviper]

Okay, I looked everywhere and didn't see an answer relating to this so I must ask; Can you use Spellmaster's Tricorne to trigger Seltyiel's Marauder power and draw cards when recharging a spell?

I bring it up because nowhere else do I see a use for adding swashbuckling when recharging spells (Jirelle can't do this), yet the Tricorne only adds the trait to the check, whereas Seltyiel's power specifies that the card needs to be swashbuckling.

[Hawkmoon269]

No. Seltyiel's Marauder power cares about the traits on the card itself. If you are putting a card into your discard pile or you are recharging a card and that card has the required trait, you can draw a card. It doesn't matter what the traits of the check to recharge the spell where, only what the traits on the spell card itself are.

As to why you would add that trait to the recharge check, not that it also adds to the check to acquire. Jirelle having this card would have 2 shots at acquiring spells. And there are also lots of other things that care about when your check has the Swashbuckling trait.

Seltyiel might want to stock up on Blessing of Besmara if he has the Spellcaster's Tricorne.

[mercviper]

Hawkmoon269 wrote:

No. Seltyiel's Marauder power cares about the traits on the card itself. If you are putting a card into your discard pile or you are recharging a card and that card has the required trait, you can draw a card. It doesn't matter what the traits of the check to recharge the spell where, only what the traits on the spell card itself are.

As to why you would add that trait to the recharge check, not that it also adds to the check to acquire. Jirelle having this card would have 2 shots at acquiring spells. And there are also lots of other things that care about when your check has the Swashbuckling trait.

Seltyiel might want to stock up on Blessing of Besmara if he has the Spellcaster's Tricorne.

Cool. I've been playing as if it hadn't worked due to the distinction but I felt it was something that was riding on the line and worth a shot asking.

What I have been doing is changing out my weapon armory from holding falcatas to pistols & rapiers, as well as prioritizing pirate allies like Giffer Tibbs for her discard to draw the bottom card of your deck ability(after marauder triggers). Displaying a sphere and drawing on a weapon recharge for every combat means each weapon is potentially another explore if I draw a blessing/ally out of it.

Once I get the 2 cards per recharge, Seltyiel is going to be heavily frontloaded for knocking out locations.

Re: Besmara, I think that's a pretty poor idea since with the +2 and skill bonuses, Seltyiel doesn't really need that second die to recharge or acquire a card. Especially for recharges since he gets a second chance at the end of his turns.

[Hawkmoon269]

Yeah. I wasn't saying Besmara was the best idea, just that it was something that would care about Swashbuckling in a recharge check.