[LSJ] Yet another timing question

[Ector]

If I have untapped The Barrens, and another player plays his own
Barrens to contest mine, can I tap my Barrens to find Sudden Reversal
or not? What are the rulings on timing of such cards?

[Jozxyqk]

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Q: Can card-cycling effects (Barrens, Fragment, etc.) be used during the
"as played" window (so as to allow a player to draw into a Sudden or a
Direct Intervention to cancel the "as played" card)?
A: No. The "as played" window is only as the card is being played. It is
before that card is replaced, even. The only cards that can be played "as"
another one is played are the ones the players have in their hands at the
time. (Not to be confused with the "as the action is announced" step, which
comes after the action card is played.) This is a reversal of previous rulings.
====

From this set of rulings:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=y%25Wkc.17303%24Xj6.285957%40bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net

[Ector]

Jozxyqk <jfeu...@eecs.tufts.edu> wrote in message news:<%6vad.226238$D%.196250@attbi_s51>...

> Ector <Ec...@mail.ru> wrote:
> > If I have untapped The Barrens, and another player plays his own
> > Barrens to contest mine, can I tap my Barrens to find Sudden Reversal
> > or not? What are the rulings on timing of such cards?
>
> ====
> Q: Can card-cycling effects (Barrens, Fragment, etc.) be used during the
> "as played" window (so as to allow a player to draw into a Sudden or a
> Direct Intervention to cancel the "as played" card)?
> A: No. The "as played" window is only as the card is being played. It is
> before that card is replaced, even. The only cards that can be played "as"
> another one is played are the ones the players have in their hands at the
> time. (Not to be confused with the "as the action is announced" step, which
> comes after the action card is played.) This is a reversal of previous rulings.
> ====

OK, so I cannot play Sudden Reversal. But can I use my Barrens as
another Barrens is played? Or cards in play cannot be used in the "as
played" window?
Or my Barrens is already contested, so it cannot be used?

[LSJ]

Ector wrote:
> OK, so I cannot play Sudden Reversal. But can I use my Barrens as
> another Barrens is played? Or cards in play cannot be used in the "as
> played" window?
> Or my Barrens is already contested, so it cannot be used?

The latter.

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