[LSJ] Switchable Infernalism

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"wumpus" <wumpus7@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Howdy,
>
> I grepped about a bit, and didn't find anything relevant, so here's the
> question:
>
> A vampire equipped with The Textbook Damnation plays Concordance. Next
> turn, the vampire doesn't bother to pay the Infernal penalty and so
> burns the Textbook, losing DAI and the Infernal trait.
>
> The vampire can still 'use' the Concordance card, right? I.e. the
> 'Requires an infernal vampire' line is just a requirement for playing
> Concordance, not for using it?

IANLSJ but I believe the answer is yes. I believe the way you resolve
the issue is how the ability is written: "This vampire treats aggravated
damage as normal damage..." (and so on. Because the ability is written
using the reference to 'this vampire' as opposed to 'this INFERNAL
vampire' (or even more restrictive, 'this INFERNAL vampire POSSESSING
inferior Daimoinon'), the minion with Concordance played on it may
use the abilities as long as it's simply a vampire. An ally 'playing
Daimoinon cards as an infernal vampire', for instance, would not be
able to use ability once it had played the card on itself.

Fred, miserable but still game rules interpreter

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Frederick Scott wrote:
> "wumpus" <wumpus7@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>A vampire equipped with The Textbook Damnation plays Concordance. Next
>>turn, the vampire doesn't bother to pay the Infernal penalty and so
>>burns the Textbook, losing DAI and the Infernal trait.
>>
>>The vampire can still 'use' the Concordance card, right? I.e. the
>>'Requires an infernal vampire' line is just a requirement for playing
>>Concordance, not for using it?
>
> IANLSJ but I believe the answer is yes. I believe the way you resolve
> the issue is how the ability is written: "This vampire treats aggravated
> damage as normal damage..." (and so on. Because the ability is written
> using the reference to 'this vampire' as opposed to 'this INFERNAL
> vampire' (or even more restrictive, 'this INFERNAL vampire POSSESSING
> inferior Daimoinon'), the minion with Concordance played on it may
> use the abilities as long as it's simply a vampire. An ally 'playing
> Daimoinon cards as an infernal vampire', for instance, would not be
> able to use ability once it had played the card on itself.

Correct.

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