I am thinking the answer is NO to this question but just wanted to make sure... since I finally got Simoun to her Role card. (Yay!)
Can she invoke her "When you would bury, discard, banish a boon that has the Electricity trait for its power, you may recharge it instead" to recharge the Shocking Scimitar when she discards it to add 1d8 and the Electricity trait to her Combat Check?
Thanks!
Dave
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1. Are you playing the card for its power?
2. Is the card a boon with the Electricity trait?
3. Is the card being buried, discarded, or banished?
If the answer to all 3 questions is yes, then Simoun’s power applies. Therefore in the scenario you posed above, you would indeed be able to recharge the scimitar instead of discarding it.
skizzerz wrote:
2. Is the card a boon with the Electricity trait?
This is the part I'm unclear about. The Shocking Scimitar+2 (and the similar Javelin of Lightning) don't have the word "Electricity" printed on the card as a trait and I wasn't sure if adding the Electricity trait by using the weapon's power only added the Electricity trait to the check only? Or if adding the Electricity trait in this case applied to the weapon as well.
Thanks,
Dave
You're correct, adding the trait to the check is not the same thing as adding the trait to the card. So going by the quoted wording you can't use that ability on the Shocking Scimitar.
I imagine skizzerz just assumed that the boon would have had the Electricity trait. But there's quite a few weapons which add a particular type of damage without it being a trait of the card itself.
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Yeah, I just assumed it had the trait—didn’t check my cards. My bad.
A card has a trait if it’s listed in the top left of the art. The type of damage a card deals does not necessarily mean it has that trait.
OK, thanks, that's what I thought. Makes her ability a bit less useful than I had hoped it could be, but at least those Blessings of Horus will work with it!
Dave
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