Contesting Vampires you control yourself

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Kraus wrote:

The same applies to Soul Gem of Etrius. If the Soul Gem triggers, and it would reveal a vampire I already control, what happens?

as stated, the revealed vampire would immediately be burned
this activates the Soul Gem once again, so you reveal the next card in your crypt!

Thats why I put in red... the 1st paragraph just shows that vampires are to be treated as "unique cards" for this matter.

wesile wrote:

Thats why I put in red... the 1st paragraph just shows that vampires are to be treated as "unique cards" for this matter.

Yah, it was just a bit confusing. Let me explain.

Firstly the use of apostrophe confused me. It is not customary to use apostrophied abbreviations in informative text or instructions. The rest of the rulebook is very official in register, so that was confusing.

Rulebooks seldom (when written in a serious and informative style) have helping points and tips in the midst of rules, so that's why I thought it was your addition to help me, or any possible newcomer with a 'basic' question like this.

I'm used to quotes being marked as quotes, and any underlinings or bolds marked after the text (possible in brackets) as an addition by the quoter. That is basic procedure in academic writing and quoting. The very basic means to do this in an internet forum environment is to add QUOTE tags to the part of thext quoted. With this it is easy to avoid confusion.

Obviously you know all of this, but that's just to explain why I was confused about your post. Yah, the information was there, but I just thought that it was an addition of yours in the red! So, my bad, in a way.

Anyways, no harm done, and misunderstandings are exactly that. Thanks for the help, again! Now I know where to find the piece of rules.

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