Vampires always ignore "burn blood" effects in excess of their current
blood supply (burning all of their blood and ignoring the excess) (card
text excepted, of course).
However, when failing to burn the required amount, the vampire is not
considered to have burned the required amount. So, if you have to burn
a blood "to" untap, and don't burn a blood, then you don't untap.
Similarly, if you have to burn an extra blood "to" play a card and
cannot burn an extra blood, then you can't play the card.
> 2) How the heck does Scrying of Secrets work? Which Methuselahs
> get to look at the seven cards? Who picks the card to be discarded?
The acting Methuselah (the methuselah who played the Scry).
The acting Methuselah (the methuselah who played the Scry).
> 3) If a a vampire has First Strike, does his retainer damage also
> resolve as First Strike? In a related question, if a First Strike sends
> the opposing minion to torpor, does the opposing minion's retainer damage
> resolve? The rulebook only specifically mentions that the opposing minion's
> strike doesn't resolve.
Yes. No (since the retainer deals damage during his controller's initial
strike resolution).
> 4) For the purposes of Seeds of Corruption, what constitutes a
> "special ability"? I assume any text unique to that vampire is a special
> ability. What about +X bleed or +X hand damage? The vampire's title?
All Non-Sect, Non-Title text (*)
> 5) Before you became official netrep (I think) you expressed the
> opinion that Fast Reaction "trumps" superior Form of Mist (ala Psyche!).
> Do you want to make this official now?
Sure, but I believe Tom Wylie made that official long before
I was Net.Rep.
> I ask since the requirements for
> Psyche! and Fast Reaction are different; Psyche! only requires two ready
> minions whereas Fast Reaction requires combat to have just completed with
> a *blocking* minion. Since superior FoM continues the action "as if
> unblocked", Does the former blocker still qualifies as a blocking minion?
Yes.
--
L. Scott Johnson (vte...@regency.wizards.com)
Official VtES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast.
(*) - Subject to review by Rules Team
"LSJ (VtES Rep)" <vte...@regency.wizards.com> wrote:
> Eric Pettersen wrote:
> > 2) How the heck does Scrying of Secrets work? Which Methuselahs
> > get to look at the seven cards? Who picks the card to be discarded?
>
> The acting Methuselah (the methuselah who played the Scry).
> The acting Methuselah (the methuselah who played the Scry).
Is this second answer errata to the card? The full card text for Scry is:
"Only usable when this vampire successfully bleeds a Methuselah. Look at
the next seven cards in that Methuselah's library.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(S) As above, and if any of those cards are action
cards that can be used
to bleed, that Methuselah discards one of those cards."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I guess the superior doesn't say one way or the other who chooses which
card gets discarded, so it's not necessarily errata. Okay, nevermind...
:-)
--Eric