Cactus Game Design Message Boards

Zebulun: 3/3 Hero, "Draw a card. If all of your Heroes in play are Genesis Heroes, Zebulun ignores Evil Characters with toughness greater than the number of cards in your hand."

Silly Women: */* EC, "Character's abilities (*/*) are equal to the number of all Evil Characters in play."

Self: */* EC, "Abilities (*/*) match the abilities of one of opponent’s Heroes in play. If that Hero leaves the field of play, abilities become 0/0."

Question 1:
Zebulun attacks, and the attacker has 5 cards in hand after drawing. There are 5 ECs in play. Can Silly Women block from hand (and then be ignored)?

Question 2:
Zebulun attacks, and the attacker has 5 cards in hand after drawing. Can Self block from hand? If so, can Self copy the 11/8 Simeon in his opponent's territory, or must he choose someone */5 or less (like Zebulun)?

Question 3:
Zebulun attacks, and the attacker has 1 card in hand after drawing. There are no Heroes below */2 in opponent's control. Can Self block from hand?

Tricky questions but I'll bite...

1) Silly Women wouldn't be ignored until she is already in battle blocking.

2 & 3) You don't have to announce the Hero your copying until Self enters play.  At that point he's already in battle.  You can choose any Hero to copy.  You may or may not be ignored depending on the Heroes toughness.

Hey,

I would say that Self has no numbers (similar to how demonic blockade makes sites have no brigade) until it is declared what character he is matching.  As such he does not have a toughness to compare to the number of cards in the opponent's hand until after he is in battle, meaning he is not ignored until he enters battle.

Which then begs the question is Silly Women 5/5 in your hand because her */* is fixed not chosen, or does Silly Women, like Self, have no numbers when she is in your hand because she is */*.  I would suggest that any * or X in an "at face value" location (i.e. draw pile, discard pile, hand) has no numerical value.  Which means not only could Silly Women block in the example in your question, but she could also block if the attacker had 5 cards in hand and there were already six evil characters in play.

This suggestion is made in part from the consideration of a hypothetical ability "Return all Evil Characters of */8 or greater in all discard piles to their owner's draw piles."  And how Silly Women would interact with a card like that.

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly, WildCard Secretary of Defense
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