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A player, 30 January 2015
the way invest works is that it creates a delayed effect for when the personality enters play.
"Before paying for a card entering play, a player may permanently increase the card’s Gold Cost by the additional cost in its Invest trait, once, to get an additional effect after it enters play (for example, “Gain 1 Honor” or “Give this card a +2F token.”)"
so, in my dynasty i declare a recruit action, choose to invest, but fail to recruit the personality, the personalities gold cost is increased, and he has a delayed effect in place for when he enters play. if i repeat this for several turns (lets say 4), then finally recruit the personality. will i get 4 x the invest effect when he finally enters play?
Roger Giner-Sorolla (rules official), 15 February 2015
the way invest works is that it creates a delayed effect for when the personality enters play.
"Before paying for a card entering play, a player may permanently increase the card’s Gold Cost by the additional cost in its Invest trait, once, to get an additional effect after it enters play (for example, “Gain 1 Honor” or “Give this card a +2F token.”)"
so, in my dynasty i declare a recruit action, choose to invest, but fail to recruit the personality, the personalities gold cost is increased, and he has a delayed effect in place for when he enters play. if i repeat this for several turns (lets say 4), then finally recruit the personality. will i get 4 x the invest effect when he finally enters play?
Thanks for the question. Can you give an example of how you are "failing" to recruit the Personality if the Recruit action was declared in Good Faith, especially keeping in mind section 0.6 of the Good Faith Rule?