The Real Rabbit Prince as Ally

[Jenceslav]

This power of the Real Rabbit Prince promo has me somewhat confused:

The Real Rabbit Prince wrote:

While this card is in your hand or when you play it, treat it as either an ally or a blessing.

First, when some card like a Traitor discards an Ally, can we choose to treat the RRP as blessing and not an ally (either, or) and the other way around (such as "when discarding cards as damage, discard blessings first")?

And more importantly, is it supposed to work when rebuilding your deck as well? That is, can it be added to the deck instead of an Ally? The only two similar cards are Bound Imp (which can be considered a Monster card, but that is not in any character's card list) and Serithtial with a different wording that specifically says that it can be treated as an ally during rebuilding.

Is there any official guidance or a tiny rule mention of that? My Zorro Hakon with 3 blessings would benefit from a 4th blessing, errr, a special Ally. If it is not possible, I suppose he might have to take the Djinn or Naval Hero instead.

[Yewstance]

Jenceslav wrote:

This power of the Real Rabbit Prince promo has me somewhat confused:

The Real Rabbit Prince wrote:

While this card is in your hand or when you play it, treat it as either an ally or a blessing.

First, when some card like a Traitor discards an Ally, can we choose to treat the RRP as blessing and not an ally (either, or) and the other way around (such as "when discarding cards as damage, discard blessings first")?

Absolutely! When you're encountering the Traitor, it's "in your hand", after all, so you as the player gets to choose one or the other at any time.

Jenceslav wrote:

And more importantly, is it supposed to work when rebuilding your deck as well? That is, can it be added to the deck instead of an Ally? The only two similar cards are Bound Imp (which can be considered a Monster card, but that is not in any character's card list) and Serithtial with a different wording that specifically says that it can be treated as an ally during rebuilding.

No; when it's not in your hand and not being played it's clearly a blessing. There doesn't really need to be a rulebook excerpt to support that statement, because the card itself says it only can count as anything other than a blessing when it's in your hand or when it's being played.

During rebuilding it's in neither situation, though for the sake of argument I'll quote the most relevant paragraph on deck rebuilding.

Core Rulebook, Page 17 wrote:

After each scenario, whether you won or lost, you must rebuild your deck. Start by combining your discards with your hand, your deck, your bury pile, and any cards you displayed; you may then trade cards with other characters. Your deck must end up meeting the deck list requirements on your character. You may not keep cards whose level is higher than the most recently played scenario’s #, with the exception of Loot cards (see Loot on page 17).

Note that all cards are in your 'deck' when rebuilding, not in any other zone.

Similarly, since you're playing Hakon, you cannot discard an ally from your hand to draw it from your discards with Hakon's power, because whilst it's in your discards it doesn't have any effect that lets you redefine its card type.

[Jenceslav]

OK, thank you very much. I suspected as much (and it would not cross my mind to even try to grab RRB from discards with an ally, I would rather pick up a Cure spell in exchange for some other support spell in his hand - not to mention that the blessing might end up in somebody else's discards).
Well, it seems that Hakon will have to make do with some other Ally picked up during the scenario, after all. Nevermind, once we get to Serithtial, he will have a suitable spot for that "ally", totalling (so far) 7 weapons in his deck - he is Zorro … Batman … Blackjack after all.

[eddiephlash]

My Kess in my home Curse game loves having the Real Rabbit Prince as an extra ally at their disposal!

[JohnF-1017 Quinn]

eddiephlash wrote:

My Kess in my home Curse game loves having the Real Rabbit Prince as an extra ally at their disposal!

You might see Quinn pull a (real) Rabbit out of his hat at some time ...