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A player, 7 March 2013
I wanted to request a clarification based on this ruling to make sure I am correct because I think it will come up eventually: viewtopic.php?p=1344008#p1344008
Is it actually possibly to save a personality from Chi Death with Feign Death if that personality has 2C or higher?
So take a Personality with 2C. You play Suck the Marrow, its action resolves (gives the -1F/-1C) and sets up a continuous (or is it delayed?) effect to give -1F/-1C. So to my understanding, this is similar to Isawa Fosuta - exp ability in CE.
It was ruled in CE (viewtopic.php?p=1153810#p1153810) that you could not react with Udo to a personalities Chi death destruction from Fosuta because the action generally had resolved several turns earlier.
Does the same apply to FD for a personality with 2C or higher? FD looks for the resolution of an action that destroyed the personality, but for a 2C or higher doesn't the resolution of Suck the Marrow happen on a previous turn and is therefore no longer a valid trigger for FD?
Thank you
Jon Palmer (rules official), 8 March 2013
I wanted to request a clarification based on this ruling to make sure I am correct because I think it will come up eventually: viewtopic.php?p=1344008#p1344008
Is it actually possibly to save a personality from Chi Death with Feign Death if that personality has 2C or higher?
So take a Personality with 2C. You play Suck the Marrow, its action resolves (gives the -1F/-1C) and sets up a continuous (or is it delayed?) effect to give -1F/-1C. So to my understanding, this is similar to Isawa Fosuta - exp ability in CE.
It was ruled in CE (viewtopic.php?p=1153810#p1153810) that you could not react with Udo to a personalities Chi death destruction from Fosuta because the action generally had resolved several turns earlier.
Does the same apply to FD for a personality with 2C or higher? FD looks for the resolution of an action that destroyed the personality, but for a 2C or higher doesn't the resolution of Suck the Marrow happen on a previous turn and is therefore no longer a valid trigger for FD?
Thank you
Unless the Personality's Chi is 1 when Suck the Marrow is played (reducing them to 0 as part of its resolution), Feign Death will not be able to be played in reaction to destruction from Suck the Marrow. If another effect reduces the Personality to 0 later (say, a 4C Personality with 3 Suck the Marrow tokens is hit with Frozen in Place), you will be able to Feign Death them then, which will remove all of the tokens but not the ongoing effect of Suck the Marrow.