Visionquest and SPIRITUS

Denette turns Arhuimane via Muricia's special. She then gains a level of Spi via Field Training, giving her SPI. Can Denette now play Visionquest to gain SPI+?

Name: Denette Stensen
Clan: Gangrel antitribu
Group: 4
Capacity: 2
Discipline: obf
Sabbat

Name: Muricia
Clan: Ahrimane
Group: 4
Capacity: 7
Discipline: ANI PRE SPI
Sabbat: During your untap phase, a Gangrel antitribu you control may burn 1 blood to become a sterile Ahrimane and gain 1 level of Spiritus [spi]. +1 strength. Sterile.

Name: Field Training
Cardtype: Action
Cost: 1 blood
+1 stealth action. Requires an anarch.
Put this card on another ready, non-titled vampire you control, choose a Discipline the acting vampire has at superior and untap the acting vampire. The vampire with this card is considered anarch (and Independent), and gets +1 level of the chosen Discipline. If this vampire changes sect, burn this card. A vampire can have only one Field Training.

Name: Visionquest
[HttB:C]
Cardtype: Action
Clan: Ahrimane
+1 stealth action.
Put this card on the acting Ahrimane. This Ahrimane gets an additional level of Spiritus [spi]. If this action is blocked, this Ahrimane does not untap as normal during his or her next untap phase.

Blooded wrote:

Denette turns Arhuimane via Muricia's special. She then gains a level of Spi via Field Training, giving her SPI. Can Denette now play Visionquest to gain SPI+?

To get a third level of Spiritus, yes.

In general, any vampire who already has a superior discipline can still gain an extra level of the discipline. It doesn't have any game-based benefit, though can provide greater resilience if you lose one of the levels somehow - such as here, if Denette stopped being Independent and lost the Field Training card as a result.

A similar ruling for Blooding by the Code.
[LSJ 20051011]

LSJ wrote:

>>Q: Can Blooding by the Code be played on a !Salubri which already has
>>superior Valeren?
>>
> yes,

Correct.

To be unable to play it, you need card text like that found on Animalism.