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A player, 17 July 2012
Perfect Sacrifice Dark Virtue • Perfection Battle/Limited: Choose your performing Samurai: Give each Personality and Follower in his unit a Force bonus equal to its current Force. Before this turn ends, destroy his unit.
Feign Death Reaction: After the resolution of an action or a battle that destroyed a performing Personality you own: Bring him into play (in your home), ignoring costs and Honor Requirement. Bow him. Dishonor him. Lose 2 Honor.
i tried searching, but didn't find anything about this particular question (sorry if i overlooked it... ).can you Feign Death the samurai you Perfect Sacrifice? ....i assume not because during Perfect Sarcifice resolution the effect of destruction doesn't happen at that moment which is when Feign Death trigger would need to trigger but can't since the samurai isn't destroyed during the resolution of Perfect Sacrifice. was debating about this during a game.... Thanks in advance.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 17 July 2012
Perfect Sacrifice Dark Virtue • Perfection Battle/Limited: Choose your performing Samurai: Give each Personality and Follower in his unit a Force bonus equal to its current Force. Before this turn ends, destroy his unit.
Feign Death Reaction: After the resolution of an action or a battle that destroyed a performing Personality you own: Bring him into play (in your home), ignoring costs and Honor Requirement. Bow him. Dishonor him. Lose 2 Honor.
i tried searching, but didn't find anything about this particular question (sorry if i overlooked it... ).can you Feign Death the samurai you Perfect Sacrifice? ....i assume not because during Perfect Sarcifice resolution the effect of destruction doesn't happen at that moment which is when Feign Death trigger would need to trigger but can't since the samurai isn't destroyed during the resolution of Perfect Sacrifice. was debating about this during a game.... Thanks in advance.
You are correct. Because the samurai hasn't been destroyed by the time Perfect Sacrifice finishes resolving, there's no legal trigger for Feign Death.