Dabbler Questions.

Dabbler
Type: Master
Master: archetype. Trifle.
Put this card on a vampire you control. Once each turn when this vampire uses 3 or more Disciplines to play cards during an action, he or she may gain 1 blood from the bank or burn 1 blood to untap (after the action is resolved). A vampire can have only one archetype.

Question 1. Does the present tense of "uses 3 or more disciplines" imply that Dabbler cannot be triggered off playing a Monkey Wrench (assume a Keystone Kine bleed that previously satisfied 3 disciplines)?

I could argue both ways from the language.....but "uses....Disciplines to play.....during an action" seems to imply that the card used open a window for Dabbler MUST be discipline-based. Otherwise it would be "plays a card and has used 3 disciplines during the action"

While it seems a purely theoretical question, there is a practical and tactically relevant application. Either effect can occur even if the action is blocked, so it would be optimal to choose the blood gain option when a successful block might leave your minion empty.

Question 2. Does the parenthetical text seems to apply to both functions - meaning the blood gain or the untap - occur after resolution?

Again, I could make an argument either way, both from grammatical intpretation and analogous card functions.

The practical application of that question.....if the card were interpreted as (gain a blood) or (burn a blood to untap after resolution), then an extra blood to power Monkey Wrench would be available before a Keystone bleed resolves.

Question 3. Does the payment for the untap occur when the effect is triggered, or when the untap occurs? Based on other multi-action card functions, it seems like payment and untap should both be deferred.

Thanks.

In my attempt to be brief, it appears I didn't communicate the question properly.

I play Keystone. I can dabble. I can not dabble if I choose. If I don't......

I play Lost in Crowds. I have another opportunity to dabble, because I played a card and have met the requirement to dabble (again). If I don't dabble at that time.....

I play Moonkey Wrench. Have I met the requirement a third time? I played a card, yes, but THAT card didn't require a discipline. Hence the tense confusion of "uses" which implies now and "during" which implies a historical memory.

I'm pretty sure you don't choose (or gain) anything for Dabbler until after the action is resolved.

I play Fleetness @ and when it wasn't blocked, I play Iron Glare @ . Once the action finally resolves (at any point after I have played cards requiring three different disciplines) I can get 1 blood or burn 1 to untap.