Final Loosening in combat

Greets!

What do you fellow kindred think, can Final Loosening be played when blood is gained during combat either by participants or non-participants? If not possible, I suppose Taste of Vitae would not work either.
Thanks in advance!

Name: Final Loosening
[TR:R]
Cardtype: Reaction
Discipline: Auspex/Dementation/Fortitude
Requires an anarch.
[aus] Play when the acting vampire would gain 1 or more blood. The acting vampire and this reacting anarch each gain 1 blood instead.
[dem] Gain 4 votes.
[for] Only usable when an ally is acting. The action fails and the ally takes 1 damage. Lock this reacting anarch.
Artist: Peter Bergting

Malachy wrote:

Greets!

What do you fellow kindred think, can Final Loosening be played when blood is gained during combat either by participants or non-participants? If not possible, I suppose Taste of Vitae would not work either.
Thanks in advance!

No, Final Loosening is a reaction which isn’t playable during combat (if not explicitly allowed by card text), not by the combatants nor by non-combatants.

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