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A player, 22 March 2012
e.g. Ring of Water.
After you resolve your fourth or later Battle action in one battle from cards with different titles: You may put this card into play from your hand.
This is a trait, so it's always effective. So presumably you can play the Ring of Water in the following cases.
Case 1: I fight a battle at a province and play 4 or more battle actions from cards with different titles. At the end of the turn, I draw a card and draw Ring of Water. I can play Ring of Water, since I have previously activated the conditions for the ring.
Case 2: In one turn, I fight a battle and play four or more battle actions from cards with different titles. The following turn, I draw Ring of Water. I can play Ring of Water, since I have previously activated the conditions for the ring (i.e. the end of the turn doesn't cause game state to 'forget' that I met the conditions).
Is this correct?
Thanks, James Donnithorne-Tait
Alex Jones (rules official), 22 March 2012
e.g. Ring of Water.
This is a trait, so it's always effective. So presumably you can play the Ring of Water in the following cases.
Case 1: I fight a battle at a province and play 4 or more battle actions from cards with different titles. At the end of the turn, I draw a card and draw Ring of Water. I can play Ring of Water, since I have previously activated the conditions for the ring.
Case 2: In one turn, I fight a battle and play four or more battle actions from cards with different titles. The following turn, I draw Ring of Water. I can play Ring of Water, since I have previously activated the conditions for the ring (i.e. the end of the turn doesn't cause game state to 'forget' that I met the conditions).
Is this correct?
Thanks, James Donnithorne-Tait
It's a triggered trait, so it's not "always effective".
See Triggers: Reactions and triggered traits have an occurrence in the game they respond to, known as a trigger. Triggers are usually written as happening “before” or “after” something else.
"After" is always used in the sense of "immediately after", and not in the sense of "at some point in time later than". If a trait says, "After trigger X: Do Y", you must do Y immediately after X occurs.
You may not play the Ring of Water in either of the two cases you describe.