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Offline Sean

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Clinging to Power is a Taunt card?
« on: March 24, 2023, 01:16:12 PM »
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Clinging to Power
Territory Class
"You may take an evil card with a band or protect ability from deck or Reserve. You may add that card to battle, reserve a Hero in battle or underdeck this card."

Can you use Clinging to Power to start a Taunt battle with an Evil Character? I'm thinking no because shenanigans but it would also be a pretty sweet use of the card.

From REG, emphasis mine:
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Add to Battle
Last Updated: 3/1/2023 (v8.3.0)
Released: 8/23/2016 (v4.0.0)
How to Play
● An add to battle effect brings cards into the current battle and activates their special abilities.

I think the only argument against this is that there is not a current battle if you play Clinging to Power in territory in your prep phase. (or discard phase for that matter)

Verdict?
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Re: Clinging to Power is a Taunt card?
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2023, 04:01:57 PM »
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I would say you worked through that thought pretty well and came to the proper conclusion. The REG could probably use a clarifying sentence in the "Add to Battle" entry that specifices add to battle abilities can only be activated/resolved during the battle phase to clear that up. Could be a fun interaction to set up a taunt battle, but I'm sure there's valid reasons to exclude add to battl abilities from triggering the start of a battle phase as that would let one player resolve an enhancment to move to the next phase and circumvent Dominant Initiative before changing the phase.
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Re: Clinging to Power is a Taunt card?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2023, 05:08:47 PM »
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You could also use the line about having to add to a side of the battle you control, since you don't control any side of the battle if there's not one currently happening.

It should be easy enough to expand the Clarification about not adding in battle resolution to include something about the battle having had to begun.
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