file Goth Band and Leadership Vacuum

21 Oct 2022 20:50 #106633 by Killiam
Imagine you control Goth Band (GB) and have just played a Leadership Vacuum (LV), placing one counter on it for having dunked a Bishop (so X=1 for LV). You immediately take an action with GB to remove a counter from another Methuselah's master card and add it to the LV. So now there are two counters on LV, but does that mean that X=2 now? More to the point -->
QUESTION: Now that there is a second counter on Leadership Vacuum (played at X=1), how much pool will my prey burn from LV during their unlock phase?

The reason I think the answer might be 1 rather than 2 is that the card says to burn X pool, rather than saying to burn pool equal to the number of counters on the card. Moreover, the card does not say to adjust the value of X according to the number of counters; it merely says that X is the starting number of counters. Still, it would be cool if the combo worked. :)

Card text pasted below.

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-Bill / Killiam

Leadership Vacuum
Master: out-of-turn. Unique.
Only usable when a ready titled vampire controlled by another Methuselah is burned or sent to torpor. Usable during your turn. Put this card in play and put X counters on this card where X is the number of votes that vampire has. That Methuselah burns X pool during each of his or her unlock phases. During his or her unlock phase, if he or she controls a ready vampire with a capacity of 8 or more or with a title, burn this card.

Goth Band
Cost: 2 pool
Unique mortal with 2 life. 1 strength, 0 bleed.
As a +1 stealth Ⓓ action, the Goth Band may move one counter from any master card controlled by another Methuselah to a master card you control that uses counters. The counter is changed to a counter of the type appropriate to the new card.

-Killiam
(Bill Troxel)
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Look at the woman I've become
And the strangest things seem
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22 Oct 2022 06:53 #106635 by lip
Replied by lip on topic Goth Band and Leadership Vacuum
Good question, and good point. I would say that still, X has to be 2, otherwise why the counters at all?

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22 Oct 2022 07:16 - 22 Oct 2022 10:31 #106636 by inm8
I disagree, the text is explicit about what the value of X is ("X is the number of votes that vampire has") and has nothing to do with the counters on the card.
Last edit: 22 Oct 2022 10:31 by inm8.

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22 Oct 2022 07:32 #106637 by KoRneeshon
Poor wording. Should be:

"That Methuselah burns pool equal to the number of counters on this card during each of his or her unlock phases".

With the current text, I agree with inm8.

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24 Oct 2022 13:08 #106640 by Ankha

Poor wording. Should be:

"That Methuselah burns pool equal to the number of counters on this card during each of his or her unlock phases".

With the current text, I agree with inm8.

Correct. The number of counters has no influence whatsoever on the pool amount the Methuselah burns.
If we ever reprint the card, it will perhaps change.

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