NRA rules with The Portrait

[Hardy Range]

Hello all,

a question that came up during friendly play some days ago:

The Portrait [AH, CE]
Cardtype: Action
Clan: Toreador
Cost: 1 blood
(D) Show the top card of your prey's crypt to all players. If it is a
Nosferatu, the acting vampire burns 2 blood. If the capacity of the
revealed vampire is below 7, the acting vampire gains 2 blood (ignore
excess blood); if it is from 7 to 10, the acting vampire untaps and
bleeds your prey with +1 bleed at +1 stealth; if it is above 10, the
acting vampire burns 1 blood.

If a vampire has already bled his prey in a turn and somehow manages
to untap, is he then allowed to use The Portrait (which may or may not
result in another bleed)?

I ruled that yes, this was permissible, but if conditions had led to a
second bleed, that would have fizzled because of the NRA rule for
bleeds.

Regards,

Hardy Range
Prince of Bochum

[LSJ]

Hardy Range wrote:
> If a vampire has already bled his prey in a turn and somehow manages
> to untap, is he then allowed to use The Portrait (which may or may not
> result in another bleed)?

Yes.

> I ruled that yes, this was permissible, but if conditions had led to a
> second bleed, that would have fizzled because of the NRA rule for
> bleeds.

If it leads to another bleed, then the minion simply remains untapped;
he doesn't take the prohibited bleed action at all, so it doesn't
exactly "fizzle".

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