Once more, the Mask of a Thousands...

Hi there! This will be my first post here and I want to ask about this card, so many times discussed...

Recently I´ve read in old rulings that minion text is considered to be an effect that would not allow playing Mask of a Thousand Faces to another minion.

<No other minion can use X vampires special text, it is unique to that
particular minion.>

This will include "specific" special texts, such as Nakhthorheb´s, but also more "regular" special texts, such as "+1 bleed" or "+1 stealth". The Ruling said the masking minion cannot use the special text of another minion, even if he has the same one in his own text.
Example 1: Persephone Tar-Anis cannot Mask the bleed action of Rodolfo because the action is declared using Rodolfo´s +1 bleed. Persephone can´t use her own +1 bleed validating the initial (Rodolfo´s) skill. How does this work?
Example2: Nakhthorheb declares an action. As his text says "Minions with your corruption counters cannot block him" this text is an innerent part of the declaration so no minion can Mask any of his actions, no matter there are corruption coounters placed or not. How does this work?

I hope have been able to explain myself...

Sorry, this post is not in the correct place... Said before, my first one...
Please, moderator, place it where it should, with other 'questions'

Firstly, welcome to the forums!

Second, everyone prefers you provide the card text on these things. Im on a phone, so ill paraphraze some:

Needs to be used by ready untapped vampire other than the acting minion.

Then heres what you are asking about:

. Not usable if any action modifiers or other effects have been used that could not have been used if this vampire were the acting vampire.

Action modifiers are simple to decifer, so "other effects" is what we are after. Id say Nkthorheb may fall into this category, since its has the relevance to the action and its blockability, but im thinking not so much for +bleed, since that wont matter unless the action resolves or a card like AI checks the bleed amount. So, in thoery, Apache Jones or Uncle George can KS bleed, get blocked, and have Persephe or Rudolpho or Rachel Brandywine mask of 1000 faces into the action, and vice versa.

But thats just a card wording interpretation, im not a rulings monger, so others may have some ruling to defy how it reads.

Ankha wrote:

I have an additional question (for Floppy).

Vamp A bleeds. Vamp B attempts to block. Giotto decides to mask the action. This is legal, and vamp B must now burn a blood to attempt to block.
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Now that's a weird ruling.
It's weird because in one sentence LSJ states that you have to pay when you make the block attempt announcement, whereas in another sentence he states that if you have already declared a block attempt, and Giotto masks, you still have to pay.

The only way this makes sense is to consider that the block attempt is re-established whenever Mask is played.

Ankha wrote:

Now, the other way round:

Giotto bleeds, prey declines block, can another vampire mask the action? (Is Giotto's special considered to be "used"?)

No, Giotto's ability is not used if noone attempts to block (same goes for +1 stealth bonus and for Toreador Grand Ball'd vampires - if noone attempts to block, they aren't "used").

Ankha wrote:

Giotto bleeds, vamp B pays 1 blood to attempt to block, can another vamp A mask the action? (assuming the answer is "no", Giotto's special has been used).

No. Giotto's ability has been used.