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A player, 5 March 2015
Don't know if this question was already asked here but I wanted to know if straightening a bowed personality is a cost to play Way of the Crab?
Card Text: If you are a Crab Clan player, this Strategy has Discipline (1).
Battle: Straighten your target Personality. Negate all Force penalties on him. He has +2F while his army is opposed. Destroy him before the turn ends.
Does the personality targeted have to be bowed to receive the following effects of Way of the Crab? "Straighten you bowed personality." essentially becoming the cost? Or can the personality I target be straightened and still receive the effects?
Thanks in advance!
Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 March 2015
Don't know if this question was already asked here but I wanted to know if straightening a bowed personality is a cost to play Way of the Crab?
Card Text: If you are a Crab Clan player, this Strategy has Discipline (1).
Battle: Straighten your target Personality. Negate all Force penalties on him. He has +2F while his army is opposed. Destroy him before the turn ends.
Does the personality targeted have to be bowed to receive the following effects of Way of the Crab? "Straighten you bowed personality." essentially becoming the cost? Or can the personality I target be straightened and still receive the effects?
Thanks in advance!
Nope. The only costs nowadays are bowing and gold, denoted by the appropriate icons. If the Personality is unbowed, the straighten effect will simply fail.