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A player, 15 July 2009
My opponent uses an action: "Battle: Ranged 2 Attack" targetting my 4F personality. Has my opponent successfully resolved a battle action for Ring of Water purposes?
My opponent uses a Ranged 2 attack targetting my 4F personality, and I use the reaction on Outer Walls to lower the ranged attack's strength by 2. Have I successfully resolved an action for Ring of the Void purposes? Part of me wants to say yes because I changed some numerical value, but part of me wants to say no because I didn't change the final outcome (the personality wasn't dying either way).
Final question: My opponent uses a Ranged 2 attack targetting my 2F personality. I use one copy of Outer Walls to reduce its strength by 2, and then I use the reaction on a 2nd copy of Outer Walls. Does the 2nd copy of Outer Walls count as a successfully resolved action? I'm not sure because the strength was already zero. Would anything change if the target was a 0F personality?
Thanks for any help!
Dan Jacobson (rules official), 24 July 2009
My opponent uses an action: "Battle: Ranged 2 Attack" targetting my 4F personality. Has my opponent successfully resolved a battle action for Ring of Water purposes?
My opponent uses a Ranged 2 attack targetting my 4F personality, and I use the reaction on Outer Walls to lower the ranged attack's strength by 2. Have I successfully resolved an action for Ring of the Void purposes? Part of me wants to say yes because I changed some numerical value, but part of me wants to say no because I didn't change the final outcome (the personality wasn't dying either way).
Final question: My opponent uses a Ranged 2 attack targetting my 2F personality. I use one copy of Outer Walls to reduce its strength by 2, and then I use the reaction on a 2nd copy of Outer Walls. Does the 2nd copy of Outer Walls count as a successfully resolved action? I'm not sure because the strength was already zero. Would anything change if the target was a 0F personality?
Thanks for any help!
Ranged Attacks' effects are conditional destruction. Did they destroy anything?
If the answer is no, then the action is not successful.
As for the Second Outer Walls: Was the Ranged Attack's Strength reduced? In the case of Outer Walls, barring stuff like Fall on Your Knees, it will always be successful. A Ranged 2 Attack who had its strength reduced by two Outer Walls would need it's strength increased by 4 to reach its original strength.
A player, 24 July 2009
In response to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=77491
I have a follow-up question:
I use a Ranged 4 attack targetting a 4F personality. My opponent uses the reaction from Hiruma Gohachiro, negating the personality's destruction. Have I successfully performed an action?
I guess the general question is: Is a ranged attack only a successfully performed action if it destroys its target? (I'm only looking at Celestial Edition cards, so feel free to ignore what would happen if Kyuden Ashinagabachi was involved)
Dan Jacobson (rules official), 24 July 2009
I guess the general question is: Is a ranged attack only a successfully performed action if it destroys its target? (I'm only looking at Celestial Edition cards, so feel free to ignore what would happen if Kyuden Ashinagabachi was involved)
Correct.