Glutton when no blood to burn

Hi,

I wanna know what will happen when using Glutton targeting an empty vamp.


Glutton
Unique master.

This card costs X pool, where X is the number of Gluttons in your ash heap. Put this card in play. You may lock this card to unlock a ready Ishtarri you control. That Ishtarri burns 1 blood. Any vampire may burn this card as a Ⓓ action.

According to the text as a first step we can unlock a ready Ishtarri. After the unlock the Ishtarri needs to burn blood.
So, as per my understanding, the vamp cant blood burn he/she doesnt have. Similarly to stolen blood, a minion cannot stole more blood than the target has.

Comparing with Stealth Ritus, Glutton doesnt have a restriction about burning blood.

Stealth Ritus
Requires a ready Sabbat vampire. Only usable when the action is announced.

Choose another ready Sabbat vampire you control. The chosen vampire burns 1 blood, or this card has no effect. This action gets +1 stealth, even if stealth is not yet needed.

E.G.
Vamp A has Glutton and locks it to unlock vamp B. Vamp B unlocks and has zero blood, so no blood to burn.

Is this right?

Thanks

Zerato wrote:

Hi,

I wanna know what will happen when using Glutton targeting an empty vamp.

...

E.G.
Vamp A has Glutton and locks it to unlock vamp B. Vamp B unlocks and has zero blood, so no blood to burn.

Is this right?

You are correct in that an empty vampire ignores "burn blood" effects... i.e. what will happen when using Glutton on a locked empty ready Ishtarri is that it will be unlocked and will ignore the need to burn 1 blood, then the Ishtarri will have to take a mandatory hunt action.
See ruling for reference [LSJ 19970707]

No vampire has Glutton, it is a card that is put into play similar to Dreams of the Sphinx.
It is you as a Methuselah that use it to unlock one of your ready Ishtarri vampires.

It's a less a matter of the steps order, more important is the difference between "Burn blood." and "Burn blood to do X.". In the former case, you simply move on with the card text resolution since you do not have the blood to burn. In the later - X won't happen if you do not have the blood to burn.

KoRneeshon wrote:

It's a less a matter of the steps order, more important is the difference between "Burn blood." and "Burn blood to do X.". In the former case, you simply move on with the card text resolution since you do not have the blood to burn. In the later - X won't happen if you do not have the blood to burn.

You are absolutely correct in highlighting the difference.

also

“Burn blood” = effect
“Burn blood to X” = cost