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I Am Sustainer (AW)Type: Covenant • Special Ability: Protect holder's Heroes from having their abilities reduced. Restore all of holder's Heroes to full abilities. • Play As: Protect holder's Heroes from having their abilities reduced. Heal all of holder's Heroes to full abilities.Incurable (Pi)Type: Curse • Special Ability: Protect Heroes in territories from healing. An opponent may discard two good Enhancements from hand to discard this card. • Play As: Protect Heroes in territories from heal abilities. An opponent may discard two good Enhancements from hand to discard this card.Plagued with Diseases (Pi)Type: Curse • Special Ability: Decrease all opponents’ Heroes by 0/2 (or 0/3 if you have the fewest Redeemed Souls). • Identifiers: OT, DiseaseFace of Death (Ap)Type: Evil Enh. • Brigade: Brown • Special Ability: All Heroes currently poisoned or diseased are immediately discarded. • Play As: All Heroes in play currently poisoned or diseased are immediately discarded.
Incurable will protect against the "restore" part of I am Sustainer, but not against the "protect" part. So if IaS is active, PwD will not reduce the opponent's heroes even if Incurable is active. Therefore Face of Death will not discard them, because the heroes are not being affected by PwD.
Quote from: Professoralstad on September 23, 2011, 09:47:05 AMIncurable will protect against the "restore" part of I am Sustainer, but not against the "protect" part. So if IaS is active, PwD will not reduce the opponent's heroes even if Incurable is active. Therefore Face of Death will not discard them, because the heroes are not being affected by PwD.What if I have used bad figs prior to them activating IaS, thus reducing abilities prior to the protect while having Incurable active? Does that mean the reduction will remain but not continue to reduce until IaS is deactivated?
The "play-as" on IaS is actually errata, so it is to be disregarded. IaS is not a "heal" ability and Incurable does not protect from it. The only way I could see it being any differently is if "restored" is actually defined as the same as "heal."
