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A player, 8 March 2005
Sejmitar wrote:
Can I use tacticians in battlefield A ro 'rain a death' on units in battle B ?
Yes.
As above, but i try to RoD units in battlefield B with tacticians in home / battlefield B / other.[/quote]
Fine.
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Zen Faulkes! * Crab Clan Scholar * Unaligned Archivist
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Ummmm... Zen where is this coming from?
Does this mean that anyone producing a range attack can shoot anyone, anywhere, anytime? Cause it has NEVER been that way. You need a specific card effect, No Hiding Place for example, to do crazy things like that. Range Attacks target cards opposing the card producing the range attack. Simple as that.
If your going on the entire idea that, RoD doesn't "oppose" anyone, your being uber liberal with the rules, and creating a bad precedent. Though this would then apply to Tsuruchi Tech, as it does not "oppose" another card and it produces a range attack.
I honestly think your wrong in this.
Though I am sure every person playing Castle of the Wasp just wet their pants...
Martin Lund (rules official), 8 March 2005
Sejmitar wrote:
Can I use tacticians in battlefield A ro 'rain a death' on units in battle B ?
Yes.
As above, but i try to RoD units in battlefield B with tacticians in home / battlefield B / other.[/quote]
Fine.
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Zen Faulkes! * Crab Clan Scholar * Unaligned Archivist
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Ummmm... Zen where is this coming from?
Does this mean that anyone producing a range attack can shoot anyone, anywhere, anytime? Cause it has NEVER been that way. You need a specific card effect, No Hiding Place for example, to do crazy things like that. Range Attacks target cards opposing the card producing the range attack. Simple as that.
If your going on the entire idea that, RoD doesn't "oppose" anyone, your being uber liberal with the rules, and creating a bad precedent. Though this would then apply to Tsuruchi Tech, as it does not "oppose" another card and it produces a range attack.
I honestly think your wrong in this.
Though I am sure every person playing Castle of the Wasp just wet their pants...
You can perform the Tactical Action with a Tactician at any location.
You must, however, still target the Ranged Attack from the Formation against cards in the Current Battle, opposing cards you control.
Oh, and Tsuruchi Technique fails the Rule of Relevance if it targets anything outside of the Current Battle.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 8 March 2005
Ummmm... Zen where is this coming from?
People are trying to make this more general than it is. This is very specific to Rain of Death and how that card is worded.
Jeff Alexander (rules official), 8 March 2005
More specifically, it is a result of trying to tighten the definition of "opposing" down from its traditional, highly context-sensitive usage to one where we can state only one definition for it that accurately covers how the word is used on every single card that doesn't explicitly address "opposing what".