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A player, 13 April 2005
The Rulebook has this to say about bringing in holdings:
You buy holdings during your Dynasty Phase. All Holdings except Fortifications enter play bowed.
Does the bowed bit apply all the time, or just during the Dynasty Phase (like how you get cost reduction or personal honor from a buying a personality only during the Dynasty Phase)?
As Strange Magics doesn't say specifically that a holding bought comes in bowed, and other cards do -like Osei & Restoring the Doji Treasury- I was wondering if either...
* Strange Magics is saving space and Osei, et al. simply have Bowed in their text for clarity's sake,
--OR--
* Strange Magics really does let a holding enter play unbowed and the Bowed clause on Osei & RtDT is actually necessary.
Martin Lund (rules official), 14 April 2005
The Rulebook has this to say about bringing in holdings:
Does the bowed bit apply all the time, or just during the Dynasty Phase (like how you get cost reduction or personal honor from a buying a personality only during the Dynasty Phase)?
As Strange Magics doesn't say specifically that a holding bought comes in bowed, and other cards do -like Osei & Restoring the Doji Treasury- I was wondering if either...
* Strange Magics is saving space and Osei, et al. simply have Bowed in their text for clarity's sake,
--OR--
* Strange Magics really does let a holding enter play unbowed and the Bowed clause on Osei & RtDT is actually necessary.
It applies all the time.