Rules Question - interaction between slave combat and Voice of Madness - rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Message from discussion Rules Question - interaction between slave combat and Voice of Madness

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From: LSJ <vtes...@white-wolf.com>

Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:28:04 -0400

Local: Fri, Sep 5 2003 3:28 pm

Subject: Re: Rules Question - interaction between slave combat and Voice of Madness

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Eric Simon wrote:
> While we're clarifying, remember that the wording of Conscripted
> Statue is almost identical to Blood Brother Ambush, so it needs to be
> part of this as well. Also, I guess I'm not clear why Josh's

Thanks.

> intuition doesn't fit with the current wording of the slave rule.
> Looking at it:

> [From 6.2.4] Also, if a member of the specified clan controlled by the
> same Methuselah is blocked, the controller can tap the slave to cancel
> the combat and to untap the acting vampire and have the slave enter
> combat with the blocking minion instead.

> This seems to indicate that a) combat is cancelled right now,
> preventing the playing of any other combat-cancelling reaction cards
> and b) the slave "enters combat", which is exactly the same wording as

The slave enters combat "instead", indicating that the combat replaces
the normal block combat. So things playable post-block, pre-block-combat
would be playable pre-slave-combat, since the one is merely substituted
for the other.

> BBA and CS. The only phrase missing from the slave rule that is on
> the cards is - "Combat does not occur." My question is whether this
> is a significantly different effect from "cancel combat", and I'm
> inclined to think it isn't.

Right.

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