Mask of a Thousand Faces

Also, the bleed amount is not completely irrelevant before the action is resolved, as there is at least one card (Archon Investigation) which looks at the amount someone is attempting to bleed for.

Mael wrote:

Also, the bleed amount is not completely irrelevant before the action is resolved, as there is at least one card (Archon Investigation) which looks at the amount someone is attempting to bleed for.

Archon Investigation is played during the resolution though, just like Spying Mission and Strix (might be more as well).

henrik wrote:

Mael wrote:

Also, the bleed amount is not completely irrelevant before the action is resolved, as there is at least one card (Archon Investigation) which looks at the amount someone is attempting to bleed for.

Archon Investigation is played during the resolution though, just like Spying Mission and Strix (might be more as well).

It's not though. The wording on it is "Only usable when a minion is attempting to bleed you ....". So you can play it before declaring blockers if the conditions are met and should it get canceled you can still block as normal (unlike deflection etc).

Was there a ruling on A.I. that confirms that it is played during resolution?
Maybe something to do with night moves or the like.

Archon Investigation 3:pool:
Master: out-of-turn.
Only usable when a minion is attempting to bleed you and the bleed amount is 4 or more. Burn the acting minion. (The action is not successful.)

I thought it was playable at any time during a bleed of 4 or more.

@Henrik:

Yes, but think of an action such as... Bum's Rush. It is entirely irrelevant that a minion has +1 bleed when taking the action Bum's Rush. But +1 stealth is not.

So it has been ruled that:

+stealth (which is gained AND HAS EFFECT immediately) does prevent the use of MoaTF

+bleed (which can be gained BUT NOT ALWAYS have immediate effect) does not prevent the use of MoaTF

Archon Investigation is playable any time before resolution (cardtext: "attempting"). It would be quite terrible otherwise (since we have no ally with base bleed of 4)

I'll try to work on something regarding the built-in +1/-1 stealth. I'll put that on the review.