Conditioning + DI - SOS answer needed

I think this is a great example of why the learning curve is so steap in this game and partly why it's hard to attract new players...

If players would a)read the rulebook, and b)realize that a card has to be played before it can be canceled, and therefore any rules regarding the card having been played (card text, rulebook, etc) are in effect, there wouldn't be the issues that there are.

The fact that some players' brains lock up when confronted with "It was canceled! Yes, but it was played first. BUT IT WAS CANCELED!!!" is neither the fault of the game, nor the rulebook.

Yes, I agree. If only everyone were psychic and knew all the internet-only card rulings ahead of time, we wouldn't need this sub-forum.

Improve your brains, people.

Two other important sections from the rulebook:

1.6.3. Minion Cards
2. Action modifier cards: The acting minion can play these cards to modify his action. For example, some action modifiers increase the acting minion's stealth or bleed amount or give him more votes. A minion cannot play the same action modifier more than once during a single action.

6. Reaction cards: A ready untapped minion can play a reaction card in response to an action taken by another Methuselah's minion (an action taken by one of a Methuselah's minions cannot be reacted to by any of her own minions). A minion cannot play the same reaction card more than once during a single action. A reaction card does not tap the minion using it.

These rules also affect what occurs when Action Modifiers or Reactions are played during actions and then canceled. In the above example, the Conditioning card was played so it may not be played again during the action by the same minion. Freak Drive and Voter Captivation are commonly DI'd to great effect. Same for Deflection, though in this case a different minion may try to Deflect the same bleed.

Haze wrote:

Yes, I agree. If only everyone were psychic and knew all the internet-only card rulings ahead of time, we wouldn't need this sub-forum.

What is funny is that here it is not an internet only ruling. It's just applying common sense and the exact text on the card. Not reading card text is something extremely human ; still it cause questions like that to come up.