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Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« on: June 24, 2016, 05:21:00 PM »
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Messenger of Satan (TEC):
You may draw X from the bottom of your deck. May band to a human Evil Character. Cannot be prevented.

Music Leader:
If an opponent uses a draw or search ability (except on a musician), you may search deck or discard pile for up to 2 good cards that involve music.

Word of Christ:
If you control a clay hero, negate an evil or neutral card.  Hero ignores up to X evil brigades in battle or you may draw X (limit 3).  Cannot be prevented.  (X = # of musicians in battle)

We had this scenario come up in booster draft today:
I rescue with Music Leader.  Opponent blocks with Messenger of Satan, draws and band to The Murdering Pharaoh.  I search for Word of Christ off the draw, to negate Messenger of Satan and ignore Orange.  Opponent plays Egyptian Horses on The Murdering Pharaoh, but doesn't play an enhancement, so the ignore wins the battle.

1) What should have happened to Word of Christ once it negated Messenger of Satan?  Negating the draw means the search shouldn't have triggered off it.
2) Is Egyptian Horses actually playable in this scenario?  The REG says SI is only granted when your are being left with no characters in battle, and Messenger would still be present.
3) Since Horses interrupts Music Leader (in battle, at least), does he get another search from the draw on Horses?

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2016, 06:00:18 PM »
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1) What should have happened to Word of Christ once it negated Messenger of Satan?  Negating the draw means the search shouldn't have triggered off it.
2) Is Egyptian Horses actually playable in this scenario?  The REG says SI is only granted when your are being left with no characters in battle, and Messenger would still be present.
3) Since Horses interrupts Music Leader (in battle, at least), does he get another search from the draw on Horses?

Wow, what a scenario.  Let me give this a shot.

1.  Music Leader isn't CBI, so he can be cascade-negated.  This scenario, like Jacob banding to TSA, kicks the negate out of battle, but the negate remains.  So Word of Christ gets shuffled back into deck and MoS remains negated.

2.  There would be no SI, because MoS was still in battle.  Ignore is a battlewinning ability that doesn't grant SI, because the character(s) stay in battle.

3.  Although Egyptian Horses couldn't have been played, if it is played when ML is in battle, ML doesn't trigger off of it.  ML has an ongoing ability, which is interrupted by Horses.  By the time Horses completes and ML is no longer interrupted, the Draw is done and ML doesn't trigger.
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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2016, 06:13:25 PM »
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I thought you could not un play cards? So even if ML got negated later, if you played the card you searched for wont it just stay activated and in battle?
Also how did you play Horses on the pharaoh if messenger was negated?
Doesn't the card have to be orange?
Or am I completely wrong on all of this? lol

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2016, 06:22:20 PM »
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I'm pretty sure jmhartz nailed it.
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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2016, 06:28:53 PM »
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I thought you could not un play cards? So even if ML got negated later, if you played the card you searched for wont it just stay activated and in battle?

Play abilities are CBI.  It gets squishy when the ability that acquired a played card (draw/search) is negated, regardless of how it was played.  CBN cards stick, I believe, but everything else is returned to the location.  Which is really why I asked the question.

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Also how did you play Horses on the pharaoh if messenger was negated?
Doesn't the card have to be orange?
Or am I completely wrong on all of this? lol

We screwed up.  Didn't realize at the time that SI was only granted when the last character was being removed, not when any SA gave initiative.

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I'm pretty sure jmhartz nailed it.

With a clear mind after the game, I agree (barring other elders with the opposite opinion on 1).  Mid-battle, we whiffed on all 3, not that it made a whole lot of difference in the context of the game.

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2016, 06:49:08 PM »
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I "wiff" more often than I care to admit while I'm in the middle of a game. Just look at any of the HLP videos on LoR as proof.  ;)

It's much easier to think through and look things up when they're asked here than it is to catch everything when you're playing/judging several games in one day.
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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2016, 09:05:24 PM »
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I concur with jmhartz (and Gabe) except that I don't think MoS would be being ignored. If WoC is returned to deck everything except the negate should be cascade negated along with Music Leader (the negate is excepted to prevent a continuous loop). As such, the ignore would no longer be in effect (since it was as though WoC was never played, aside from the negate).

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2016, 12:40:01 AM »
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Yeah as the other part of this battle we screwed up on a quite a few things there. It really didn't affect the outcome which was at least good. Just a really absurd situation for a draft and in the moment our judgement was a bit off.

I concur with jmhartz (and Gabe) except that I don't think MoS would be being ignored. If WoC is returned to deck everything except the negate should be cascade negated along with Music Leader (the negate is excepted to prevent a continuous loop). As such, the ignore would no longer be in effect (since it was as though WoC was never played, aside from the negate).
I'm actually not sure if I agree since it would also mean the negate is no longer in play too? If the negate takes effect I feel the rest of the cards abilities should complete as well. They are separate abilities on the card though so you very well could be correct. Just a weird scenario.

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2016, 10:25:36 AM »
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I concur with jmhartz (and Gabe) except that I don't think MoS would be being ignored. If WoC is returned to deck everything except the negate should be cascade negated along with Music Leader (the negate is excepted to prevent a continuous loop). As such, the ignore would no longer be in effect (since it was as though WoC was never played, aside from the negate).

Well, there is that.  ::)

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2016, 02:03:53 AM »
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Since when can you "un-play" cards? I draw Abe's Servant to Ur with Book of Hozai and then play it, does Abe's Servant to Ur go back on top with the other two cards? Or if I draw Guardian in those three cards, choose not to play next, play Guardian, and then my opponent plays Foolish Advice, Guardian doesn't go back, does it? I don't think I've ever played that way...

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2016, 02:17:13 AM »
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See Aggie's last post.
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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2016, 02:53:13 AM »
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See Aggie's last post.
So Guardian would obviously stick since it's CBN, but would Abe's Servant stick because it was played off of BoH's CBI play ability or go back because of BoH's negatable draw ability?

Say my opponent attacks with Paul's Nephew. I block with Pharisees. Opponent plays Generous Giving so we both draw 3, one of mine being Gameliel's Speech, and then he relinquishes initiative. If I play Gam's Speech, place it in territory, and then discard it to negate Generous Giving, would Speech go from my discard pile back on top of my deck? Maybe there's something about Speech that makes it inherently CBI and obviously this is super hypothetical, but I'm just trying to find situations in which it just doesn't make sense for a card played to be able to be "un-played."

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2016, 09:57:42 AM »
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See Aggie's last post.
So Guardian would obviously stick since it's CBN, but would Abe's Servant stick because it was played off of BoH's CBI play ability or go back because of BoH's negatable draw ability?

Say my opponent attacks with Paul's Nephew. I block with Pharisees. Opponent plays Generous Giving so we both draw 3, one of mine being Gameliel's Speech, and then he relinquishes initiative. If I play Gam's Speech, place it in territory, and then discard it to negate Generous Giving, would Speech go from my discard pile back on top of my deck? Maybe there's something about Speech that makes it inherently CBI and obviously this is super hypothetical, but I'm just trying to find situations in which it just doesn't make sense for a card played to be able to be "un-played."

There's a difference between playing an enhancement via regular initiative, and play an enhancement via a Play ability.  The first has no special rules surrounding it; cards played via regular initiative can be removed from battle if the ability that searched/drew that card is negated.  Not so with Play abilities - the card played sticks, no matter what else is negated.
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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2016, 11:44:47 AM »
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See Aggie's last post.
So Guardian would obviously stick since it's CBN, but would Abe's Servant stick because it was played off of BoH's CBI play ability or go back because of BoH's negatable draw ability?

Say my opponent attacks with Paul's Nephew. I block with Pharisees. Opponent plays Generous Giving so we both draw 3, one of mine being Gameliel's Speech, and then he relinquishes initiative. If I play Gam's Speech, place it in territory, and then discard it to negate Generous Giving, would Speech go from my discard pile back on top of my deck? Maybe there's something about Speech that makes it inherently CBI and obviously this is super hypothetical, but I'm just trying to find situations in which it just doesn't make sense for a card played to be able to be "un-played."

There's a difference between playing an enhancement via regular initiative, and play an enhancement via a Play ability.  The first has no special rules surrounding it; cards played via regular initiative can be removed from battle if the ability that searched/drew that card is negated.  Not so with Play abilities - the card played sticks, no matter what else is negated.
So in this scenario Gam's Speech was played by regular initiative so it would indeed go back on top of my deck even though it has been used and discarded in the process?

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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2016, 12:04:50 PM »
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So in this scenario Gam's Speech was played by regular initiative so it would indeed go back on top of my deck even though it has been used and discarded in the process?

Correct.  To prevent loops, the Negate sticks. 

It's the same as Dan drawing 2, drawing Abe's Servant to Ur, and playing it with regular initiative during battle.  AStU goes back with the other card Dan drew, but AStU's ability sticks.
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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2016, 08:11:16 PM »
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I, too, remember the times where the rule was succinctly expressed as "you cannot unplay a card." Does anyone know when and why we moved away from that to the more convoluted "you cannot unplay a card that was played by a play ability unless X Y or Z has happened?"
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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2016, 08:24:25 PM »
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I, too, remember the times where the rule was succinctly expressed as "you cannot unplay a card."  Does anyone know when and why we moved away from that to the more convoluted "you cannot unplay a card that was played by a play ability unless X Y or Z has happened?"

I really think that expression was never really true, and this has always been the rule.  Just doesn't seem to come up that often.

And I'm pretty sure the rule is you can't unplay a card that was played by a play ability - which would be indirectly negating the CBI play ability.

It's the cards played by regular initiative that can be unplayed, since there's no CBI ability to keep it on the table.


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Re: Music Leader vs. Negated Draw/Search
« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2016, 12:12:46 PM »
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I, too, remember the times where the rule was succinctly expressed as "you cannot unplay a card." Does anyone know when and why we moved away from that to the more convoluted "you cannot unplay a card that was played by a play ability unless X Y or Z has happened?"

I remember this too.  There was a ruling, maybe 5 years ago, where Sin in the Camp was played off of 2KH, and then a good "Negate all" was played.  It was ruled that if SitC was in hand, it stayed in battle because Play abilities were CBI, but if SitC was drawn off of 2KH, since the draw wasn't CBI, SitC would go back to on top of deck.  I specifically remember you arguing that SitC would remain in battle no matter what.

I finally got a member of the PTB to agree with us here:  http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/ruling-questions/complex-cascade-negate/  However, I have not heard from them, or seen any follow-up on this.
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