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A player, 10 January 2011
Equip: (Equip) Limited: Any number of times per turn, target one of your Personalities: Attach a target attachment card from your hand to him.
Swift Counterattack: Reaction: Before the resolution of a Battle action that was taken as an additional action: Its effects do not happen.
I take an additional battle action. 1.) Announce my target: Shugenja 2.) Payment step: pay 4 gold (for example). 3.) Resolution. Swift Counterattack negates the effects, which were to attach the spell.
Question: a.) Am I out the 4 gold? b.) Where does the spell go? Discard pile or hand?
Thanks!
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 10 January 2011
I take an additional battle action. 1.) Announce my target: Shugenja 2.) Payment step: pay 4 gold (for example). 3.) Resolution. Swift Counterattack negates the effects, which were to attach the spell.
Am I out the 4 gold?
You've paid. Yes. (See also here: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=87587) (Correction: Gold cost hasn't been paid yet; see post below.)
A player, 11 January 2011
In response to: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=88277
I just wanted know. For the Equip Action, the only Mandatory costs is to target your personality. I am wondering by your ruling how the payment in the resolution part get jumped to the paying gold cost step. Attaching is part of the resolution of a Equip action. You would have to play Swift Counterattack as a reaction to the Equip Action not the Attaching because I would think the timing has already past, because the resolution has started.
Kind of confused.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 11 January 2011
In response to: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=88277
I just wanted know. For the Equip Action, the only Mandatory costs is to target your personality. I am wondering by your ruling how the payment in the resolution part get jumped to the paying gold cost step. Attaching is part of the resolution of a Equip action. You would have to play Swift Counterattack as a reaction to the Equip Action not the Attaching because I would think the timing has already past, because the resolution has started.
Kind of confused.
Whoops, you're right. Got my action and item costs tangled in there. Sorry.