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A player, 4 August 2014
Per the CR on "Enemy":
Enemy: Referring to the player on the opposing side to the player of reference during a battle (also, the “enemy leader”), and to cards in units he or she controls. Cards not in units, such as Holdings or Terrains, are not “enemy cards.”
I would like to ask this because i am having a rules debate with another member of my playgroup on cards like Entrenched Position that say Bow an Enemy card without attachments and nowhere on the CR on Enemy does it say that enemy cards have to be units at the battlefield. So he says he can use Entrenched Position to bow a card in a unit not at the current battlefield which feels completely wrong to me.
I would humbly like to get an official ruling and more indepth explanation on this to settle the debate and if the CR requires updating i would also request that the CR be updated to more accurately reflect what makes an enemy card an enemy card.
Regards
Alex Jones (rules official), 5 August 2014
Per the CR on "Enemy":
Enemy: Referring to the player on the opposing side to the player of reference during a battle (also, the “enemy leader”), and to cards in units he or she controls. Cards not in units, such as Holdings or Terrains, are not “enemy cards.”
I would like to ask this because i am having a rules debate with another member of my playgroup on cards like Entrenched Position that say Bow an Enemy card without attachments and nowhere on the CR on Enemy does it say that enemy cards have to be units at the battlefield. So he says he can use Entrenched Position to bow a card in a unit not at the current battlefield which feels completely wrong to me.
I would humbly like to get an official ruling and more indepth explanation on this to settle the debate and if the CR requires updating i would also request that the CR be updated to more accurately reflect what makes an enemy card an enemy card.
Regards
The definition of "Enemy", which you quote, states that only cards in units are "enemy cards". The Rule of Location states on p38 that, during battle, cards in units must be at the current battlefield to be targeted by an action.
Putting these together, a action which targets an enemy card must target a card at the current battlefield.