The Line & Pack Alpha

Kilrauko wrote:

lip wrote:

Can The Line be used to reduce the cost of a retainer played through Pack Alpha?

Relevant ruling [LSJ 20090920]

The Line

Unique location.

Lock to reduce the cost of an action card played by a vampire you control by 1 blood (this location is not locked if that card is canceled as it is played). Any vampire can steal this location as a Ⓓ action.

Pack Alpha

A vampire may play only one Pack Alpha each round.
This vampire employs an animal retainer from your hand before range is determined. Pay cost as normal.
Burn an animal retainer employed by this vampire and put this card on this vampire. The minion with this card gets +1 strength. A minion may have only one Pack Alpha.

Yes.

Longer;

LSJ has in the past ruled that groups.google.com/g/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/c/vSOt2c1uRzQ/m/MsRAv47Cd4YJ
1) "All cost-affecting cards operate no matter how the card is played ("as normal"
or otherwise). All multiplication and division is handled first, followed by
addition and subtraction.
Note that pay nothing still means pay nothing, even if something else would add
to the cost. So costs for cards canceled by Sudden Reversal or Direct
Intervention are still not paid, for example. And Bauble and Horrid Reality
still gets weapons for free. And similar for Helena and Dragos.

Similarly, cards that can be used to pay some of the cost of other cards can be
used whenever such a cost is being paid (regardless of whether the card is
played "as normal" or not)."

and
groups.google.com/g/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/c/cAGuCHSPIMY/m/22_BPQF8kMQJ

2) "Petri Wessman wrote:
> Two related questions: first off, can I use Powerbase Tswane or
> Eccentric Billionaire to reduce the cost of equipment I retrieve from
> my own ash heap via Kiss of Lachesis? Both say that they reduce the
> cost of a card I play by one, so does Kiss of Lachesis count for that?

Kiss counts that, yeah."