Blasphemy demon, bone diviner Grazzle, and the armor of the pious

[AkbarabkA]

Bone diviner Grazzle can recharge cards with the Divine trait from his hand to examine 1 or 2 cards from the top of an occupied location deck.

Grazzle wrote:

You may recharge a card that has the Divine trait to examine the top card (or top 2 cards) of a location deck at any occupied location.

If Grazzle examines a Blasphemy Demon using this power, does he have to bury the card he would otherwise have recharged?

Blasphemy Demon wrote:

The Blasphemy Demon is immune to the Electricity and Poison traits. If you play a boon that has the Divine trait in a check against the Blasphemy Demon, bury it.

If undefeated, banish a weapon, an item, or an armor that has the highest adventure deck number from your discard pile.
If you played a boon to examine this card, bury the boon.

My understanding was that you are only playing a card when you use the card to activate one of the powers on the card itself. So recharging a card for a character power would not be playing it, and so the card that you recharged to examine would not be buried if it caused you to examine the Blasphemy Demon, because you only burying boons you have played for that examination.

If you do need to bury card, does that mean recharging cards for this power counts as playing them? And if so, could Grazzle recharge a Blessing of Iomedae to examine a deck, and then reveal the armor of the pious to activate the armor's healing ability? The armor of the pious text goes something like 'When you play a blessing with the Iomedae trait, you may reveal this armor and a character at your location can shuffle 1 random card from their discard pile into their deck.'

Sorry for the lack of card text, I'm not sure how I can source that without owning the game, and I've been playing with a friend using their copy of WotR.

[Hannibal_pjv]

You Are not doing a check against the demon when you Are spying the location deck so no bury in this spesific case.

[elcoderdude]

+1 (sorta).

@Hannibal: The OP is not concerned by the second sentence of the Blasphemy Demon text, but rather the last sentence: "If you played a boon to examine this card, bury the boon." Blasphemy Demon is the precursor of all those wonderful Mummy's Mask Triggers. You might call him The Father of All Triggers.

@AbarbkA: You were right the first time (about playing cards).

Mummy's Mask rulebook p.8 wrote:

Playing a card means using a power on that card by performing an action with that card that is specified by the card itself (see Boons, page 23). Choosing to activate a power on a displayed card also counts as playing it.

Grazzle is not playing the card he recharges to fuel his examine.

(Note: the rulebooks are online at http://paizo.com/pathfinder/cardgame/downloads)

[AkbarabkA]

OK, thanks Hannibal and elcoderdude for the replies.

Examination is already really strong, if my history is correct that's why they introduced the trigger mechanic in Mummy's Mask, and the wording of Blasphemy Demon makes him pretty toothless against Grazzle. Maybe we'll houserule Grazzle has to bury a card when he examines the Blasphemy Demon just to keep things interesting.

I was really hoping the examination would count as playing a card, the interaction between Grazzle and armor of the pious is so nice. It can be hard to keep bone diviner Grazzle on his feet, everyone wants a piece of that 2-for-1 healing action.

[Longshot11]

AbarabkA wrote:

I was really hoping the examination would count as playing a card

Hah, you would think that NOW, but if it was so, you would soon discover that it had a lot more drawbacks that the occasional situational advantage for Grazzle... :D