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I'm pretty sure that if you have mayhem and they play a card first then you play mayhem they have to put it back because dominants take presidence so unless they put guardian or SoG down no matter what if they haven't started their next phase you can play mayhem.

Is it fair to slap all my arts down face up before my opponent plays Mayhem on RTS?

I guess the thing is, when can mayhem be played. I see the advantage going to the one with mayhem and the guy trying to slap down cards shouldn't be able to imo, especially if it's been announced that mayhem would be played after the d3.

If someone is d3'n and the opponent plays mayhem, but you're still trying to place down all the LSs and draw cards to replace those, how would that work?

Souls go down, redraw, repeat steps 1 and 2 until no more souls drawn, then Mayhem is carried out.

The one exception to this would be if a player had dominants in their hand that they wanted to play immediately after their own draw.  For example if they had NJ in their hand and just needed to draw SoG for the win.  Then when they draw SoG, they of course are going to play it immediately.

So in that case, they d3, put down LSs, redraw for the LSs, and then you have a case where both players want to immediately play a dominant.  I would rule that the player who drew the cards (including the SoG) would get to play first, because in a slapjack situation, you go with the player who is responding to their own action (in this case drawing SoG).

Correct and I agree with the professor.

They can only use a dominant they were intending to play right away. Usually it's pretty obvious (a GoyS or a SoG/NJ generally), and it's easy to tell if your opponent's only playing them because you played Mayhem (starts AotL'ing, CM'ing, Burying right when the turn starts).

I also agree with Prof U and Pol.

depends if its a n00b or a pro using the burial.

We really need an intro prep in type 1.