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A player, 27 May 2014
After this recent question (viewtopic.php?f=59&t=108471), I wondered about reversing the situation.
That is to say, if I discard a 4FV card to Tactical Advantage on a personality with Aramasu's Mask, and then my opponent plays a strategy with 3FV, may I interrupt his action with Voice of Experience or Reverse Fate in order to increase the FV of his strategy to 4, and then interrupt with Aramasu's mask to negate it?
I guess the core of the question comes down to: does playing a strategy count as "discarding" it?
Ben Higgins (rules official), 27 May 2014
After this recent question (viewtopic.php?f=59&t=108471), I wondered about reversing the situation.
That is to say, if I discard a 4FV card to Tactical Advantage on a personality with Aramasu's Mask, and then my opponent plays a strategy with 3FV, may I interrupt his action with Voice of Experience or Reverse Fate in order to increase the FV of his strategy to 4, and then interrupt with Aramasu's mask to negate it?
I guess the core of the question comes down to: does playing a strategy count as "discarding" it?
Playing a strategy for it's action is not the same as discarding or showing it as an effect of an action.
You cannot use Voice of Experience to pump the Focus Value of a Fate card being played.