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What details about a character fall under the "identifier" heading? Do testament, gender, species, and the like count as identifiers, or just unique/generic, civilization, and role? I know they are listed under "Identifiers" in the REG, but I'm wondering specifically for gameplay targeting purposes.

If I wanted to refer to a group of people by role or civilization identifier (like musician or Assyrian) but not by gender, species, testament, etc., is there a way I could word it?

1.) Yes, those are all identifiers.

2.) I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do here...

Here's what I'm referring to:

Workers Together
[Rainbow GE | 3/3 | 2 Corinthians 6:1]
If used by a hero that shares an identifier with at least 4 other of your heroes, interrupt the battle and return up to 3 of your cards in set aside or removed from the game to their previous location(s). Cannot be negated.

I don't want it to work if you just have 4 humans, I want the benefit to work only if you're using a theme like role or civilization, but I don't know how to refer to more than one but less than all identifiers.

There's no current way to do that without elaborate wording.

I think it might be easiest to list exceptions. 

If used by a hero that shares an identifier with at least 4 other of your heroes except human, angel, testament, or gender.....

It adds a little length to it but I think it is usable and basically covers what you want.

P.S. you can't have an ability that returns cards removed from the game.

Quote from: galadgawyn on June 11, 2011, 05:46:01 PM

P.S. you can't have an ability that returns cards removed from the game.

Why not? Cards break game rules, that's what they're for.

Even if you can (and I think you can) there should be a way to keep certain things gone, discard hardly means anything anymore.

@Smokey - My making one card that lets you maybe get cards back from rfg (if you even have any cards there) does not affect, in any way, the impact of discard on the game.

@Kittens - LOL.

Faith as a Mustard Seed has a high cost?

JiP on my Sadds isn't a "high cost"

The point of removal from the game is ensure that removed cards can never be used again in the game. That is why cards like The Destroyer and Wickedness Removed remove themselves, since we want to make sure they don't get reused.