Can you play epiphany with a base vamp that has no advanced version?

Can you play epiphany with a base vamp that has no advanced version? To cycle I mean?

Sure, and you can even search your crypt for advanced version...

Epiphany

+2 stealth action. Requires an unmerged base vampire. Untap this acting vampire and search your crypt, uncontrolled region, or ash heap for his or her advanced version to move to him or her. Shuffle your crypt afterward.

2 stealth perfectionist trigger with untap.

Also, youhave to check one of those places before giving up. Imagine the embarrasment when you find adv Bindusara in your ash heap

ReverendRevolver wrote:

Also, youhave to check one of those places before giving up. Imagine the embarrasment when you find adv Bindusara in your ash heap

Doesn't matter at all. "Search" means you can fail to find, even if there's something there, as per Magic of the Smith.

[LSJ 20010605]

LSJ wrote:

> > One more related question. Are you allowed to "not search very hard"
> > and fail to find equipment that is actually in your library? This is
> > important for a diminished library where you just want to shuffle.
>
> Or are you allowed to skip the searching at all? If you know that there's no
> equipment and everyone takes your word for it (to save time).

Yes to both. Enforcing other options is not really tenable.
You'd still have to shuffle, however, since you've still ostensibly "searched"
your library.

(Also me talking about this here: vekn.net/forum/6-rules-questions/59653-magic-of-the-smithalastor-vs-unique-equipment#59680)