Cactus Game Design Message Boards

Modifiers
A modifier is part of a special ability that modifies abilities or effects. Modifiers are not
themselves abilities, but alter the behavior of abilities or effects. Whether a modifier targets an
ability or effect depends on the type of modifier. If a modifier is granted to abilities or effects on
other cards, the modifier persists through the end of the current phase by default. Since modifiers
are not abilities, they cannot be targeted by interrupt, prevent or negate effects.
If a modifier targets an ability, it modifies all parts of the ability unless some types of abilities
are specified to gain or not gain the modifier. If a modifier targets (or specifically doesn’t target)
a type of ability (“X abilities”), then it does not modify any other effects an ability might have. A
modifier that targets “discard abilities” would modify the discard effect of an ability with “negate
and discard” effects, but does not modify the negate effect. If the modifier targets the ability,
then all parts except the negate effect would be modified. If the modifier only targets the discard
effect, then only the discard effect is modified.
A modifier may have one or more conditions included as part of the modifier.