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A player, 8 May 2006
Searching through old posts I came to this thread
http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38524&highlight=chitik
I'm a little confused over the "appropriate time". Just to be explicitly correct here, an immideate terrain would resolve and then be removed from the game, but a delayed terrain would stay in play until the end of the battle and then be removed after it resolved. Is that correct?
Another question just came to mind as well... You can't play formations off chitik because he doesn't allow you to use the rule book action to put them into play. Could you use the Castle of the Swift Sword trait to just play it as an action?
Relevant Text:
Once per turn, if you control a Tactician at the current battlefield, you may play a Formation as a normal Action card for one of its abilities, ignoring Formed By requirements.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 8 May 2006
Chitik: Just to be explicitly correct here, an immideate terrain would resolve and then be removed from the game, but a delayed terrain would stay in play until the end of the battle and then be removed after it resolved. Is that correct?
No. Terrains stay in play until the Resolution Segment.
You can't play formations off chitik because he doesn't allow you to use the rule book action to put them into play. Could you use the Castle of the Swift Sword trait to just play it as an action?
With Chitik, yes.