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Hey Guys, 

My friend and I were playing recently and this question came up during the game. 
The special ability of the Priestly breastplate artifact in the Priest expasion states, "Negate all ignore and repel abilities on Characters and Enhancements. May be placed on a good Hight Priest when activated."

Does this mean if I place it on a good High Priest, I can activate another artifact in the artifact pile. The reason I ask is because the rule for artifacts state that only one can be active in the pile. Technically, it is not in the pile, so then it gives the possibility to activate another one.
What do you guys think?

~Wings 

Thank you very much! 

Actually....you can't.

Because of the wording on it, you have to activate it on the artifact pile and then move it to the High Priest.

rust me, I know...I tried this in my T2 deck but was told I couldn't (not only that, but if you do put it on the priest, the next turn, you have to deactivate it in your artifact pile).

Ok, now I am confused...

Here's the tread with the ruling.

Ok that clears it up a little...but if there is no advantage to it for the activation of other artfiacts, I guess the ability to place it on a high priest is useless...

It isn't useless.  PB remains active on your High Priest indefinitely..right?  Then you could activate a different artifact next turn.

Not according to the thread linked to above.  I'm not sure if it is the correct ruling since a PTB didn't get involved, but if it's right, then PB is close to useless.

Sir Nobody is not official, and tons of objections have been brought up to how he describes Arts working. I forget what it is now, but there was one example that showed he was just plain wrong. But the PTB have still not actually ruled one way or the other.

Sir Nobody is as official as they come without being named Rob or Bryon.

He's a playtester, high-level tournament host, writer of the new REG, and moderator of this section.

He's more official than you. And as of the current moment he's more official than Gabe. I won't argue Scheaf though. And no he doesn't have rubber-stamp, but until one of the other big guys says contrary to him his ruling should be considered official.

You're saying that your word should be considered more official than Tim's? Last time I checked you weren't a playtester, writer of the new REG, or the moderator of this board.

Tim is wrong there if an Artifact is active it re-actavates evey round with turning face up or down so i can re-flip a new art but if that's not the case then i'v been doing it wrong for years.

He's hosted multiple state tournaments. He's also judged at nationals.

I think thats a wonderful idea, It would be nice to see Arkansas on the map. And in my mind, State is high-level. We only have 5 levels..... So it's right in the middle, and you can only have one per state. So its more restricted then local's and districs.

Fair enough. Even if we remove that he is still more official than anyone else except Bryon/Rob/Schaef, and I'll add Mike Berkenpas to that list.