LSJ Status Perfectus question

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"When a blocking anarch has just completed combat with an acting
minion, you may tap this card and choose a ready untapped anarch you
control other than the blocking anarch"

i think that this sentence clarifies that the blocking minion must be
yours

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"John Flournoy" <carneggy@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1109871360.787899.60060@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> ThE OnLy VipeR wrote:
> > [Re: Status Perfectus]
> > "When a blocking anarch has just completed combat with an acting
> > minion, you may tap this card and choose a ready untapped anarch you
> > control other than the blocking anarch"
> >
> > i think that this sentence clarifies that the blocking minion must be
> > yours
>
> You are incorrect.
>
> "When a blocking anarch has just completed combat" does not include any
> limitation on the controller of that blocking anarch.
>
> The only limit on the control of the vampires imposed by the card text
> is that you must control the anarch being selected to enter the new
> combat.
>
> You must choose an anarch you control to enter combat, and that anarch
> cannot also have been the blocking minion. But you can jump your minion
> into a follow-up combat after somebody else's anarch blocks freely.
>
> (Note that you can't enter combat with your own minion by the rules,
> still, so if your acting vampire gets blocked by an anarch you can't
> subsequently use TSP to enter combat with your own minion.)

Correct.

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