Different Favoured Card Question

[SentientShadow]

So, in the new Core Set we've encountered a favoured card issue that I can't seem to find a resolution for online; if there is one, just link me to it and I'll edit this post to reflect it.

Using Valeros as our example, his favoured card type is 'Sword Weapon'. So the issue we've encountered is that not every weapon is also a sword and that it is quite easy to not have any Swords in his deck.

If this occurs, what happens during Valeros's initial hand?

By the rules as written, it would seem to be an infinite loop of Valeros drawing his hand, not having a 'sword weapon', drawing hands until he runs out of cards in his deck, re-shuffling and drawing then looping with no end as without a 'sword weapon' in his deck, he will *never* draw his favoured weapon into his starting hand and thus can never stop trying to draw his starting hand.

How do we resolve this loop?

[zeroth_hour2]

Yes it'll cause an infinite loop. That being said, you're also choosing the replacements in his deck - the only way you're forced to have an illegal deck is if you banished the only Sword(s) in Valeros' deck and you picked up a non-weapon Sword in the scenario (so you can't replace it with a choice of cards).

In a home game, you'd probably just houserule the replacement of a level 0 Sword or something like that to keep your deck from going infinite.

[SentientShadow]

zeroth_hour2 wrote:

Yes it'll cause an infinite loop. That being said, you're also choosing the replacements in his deck - the only way you're forced to have an illegal deck is if you banished the only Sword(s) in Valeros' deck and you picked up a non-weapon Sword in the scenario (so you can't replace it with a choice of cards).

In a home game, you'd probably just houserule the replacement of a level 0 Sword or something like that to keep your deck from going infinite.

But it's not an 'illegal' deck as you put it. I found nothing in the rules that states you 'must' have a favoured card in your deck; the fact that this possibility exists at all means it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

[Brother Tyler]

The way I would address it would be to require that the character must have at least one card of their favored type when building/rebuilding their deck. That's the obvious RP intent to represent the theme of the character.

Sometimes we just need to follow the "Keep it Simple" concept instead of trying to complicate things.

[zeroth_hour2]

Actually, as it turns out, this was FAQ'd in the Mummy's Mask set where this first appeared.

And actually selecting a Sword to replace another weapon where your deck couldn't support the favored card type is a-okay.

[SentientShadow]

zeroth_hour2 wrote:

Actually, as it turns out, this was FAQ'd in the Mummy's Mask set where this first appeared.

And actually selecting a Sword to replace another weapon where your deck couldn't support the favored card type is a-okay.

Ha ha ha, gotta admire there balls for not disallowing you to build a deck without a favoured card.

Thanks for the find, wouldn't've thought to look at Mummy's Mask as it's the one version I've not played.

[Mike Selinker]

Some ideas never get old.