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A player, 23 August 2009
This may have (likely was) already covered, but 15 minutes of searching has not found it, so I will ask here;
Do permanent stat bonuses and negatives remain on personalities after they die?
Specifically... If I use a card to permanently set Houhou's force to some number (say, 7), and then at the end of the turn, Houhou dies... When I bring him back into play on my next limited phase, is his force 7? Or is it 2 again? etc.
I understand that "Permanently set a target personality's force to 7" actually means "Give a personality a penalty or bonus to his force so that it is 7" and thus, if Houhou's strength is 2, and that card is played it becomes a permanent +5 bonus, or if it force is -6, and that card is played, he gains a permanent +13 bonus to his force... But do permanent card effects actually survive death?
They did in Samurai, but do they in Celestial?
Sorry if this has been answered 100 times.
A player, 23 August 2009
Do permanent stat bonuses and negatives remain on personalities after they die?
Yes.
Specifically... If I use a card to permanently set Houhou's force to some number (say, 7), and then at the end of the turn, Houhou dies... When I bring him back into play on my next limited phase, is his force 7?
Yes. Aside: Houhou is a female (cf. card text: "She rises from the ashes. Bring her into play").
This may have (likely was) already covered, but 15 minutes of searching has not found it
You must have missed "Ritual of Summoning - Redux" where you can read this.
Zen Faulkes wrote:DojiHoturi wrote:(I)f I manage to kill Hou Hou, later they can use it's ability to bring it back and it will include the changes set for by the Ritual of Summoning due to it never being considered face down, from in play to dead to in play again?
Yes.