Re: On the Qui Vive and On the Qui Vive
- From: James Coupe <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:24:13 +0100
In message <hD7Mg.7844$Mz3.6705@fed1read07>, Fred Scott
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<snip - On the Qui Vive>
I think everybody is going to love this card - that is, putting it in
the class of
generalized, no-requirements untapping cards with Wake with Evening's
Freshness and
Forced Awakening, it seems to be the best of the three. In small
vampire decks,
I'd be tempted to play almost exclusively with OtQV and ignore the other two.
Only in decks with larger vampires and more dependence on reaction cards would
I start to look at adding, let alone using predominantly, one or both of the
other choices.
I don't think it has to just be larger decks - but larger decks do get
closer to the One Main Reacting Vampire. If, for example, I was
planning on having Gloria Giovanni be my Deflection bitch and I were
including, say, 6 to 8 wakes of some sort (predominantly Wake with
Evening's Freshness, at present, say), I'd probably swap out some for On
the Qui Vive but not all of them, so that I have a better chance at
being able to play more than one wake if I need to.
On the Qui Vive's "one between untap phases" will annoy any deck that
plans to use mostly one vampire as a wall (Sport Bike + Guardian Angel +
Atonement on one vamp, say), or deflector, or whatever else you might be
doing. Which is fine - I certainly agree that it's a strong card, so
having some situations where Wake or Forced are more appropriate is
still good.
Also, rules question: interacting with Power cards that have reaction symbols
on them. Would playing On the Qui Vive allow a tapped imbued to use a
reaction-
based power? Strictly speaking, that's not "playing a reaction card". It's
using a power card.
I'd say you can't, for much the same reasoning. The Imbued rules page
suggests that the card types indicate "how and when" you use them,
rather than actually saying "Treat this as playing an equivalent card
from your hand."
I'm not 100% sure what "Standard rules for using such effects apply
(e.g., a reacting minion must be ready and untapped)" means, in this
context though. However, since we know that "play" means "play in the
normal sense", I'm reasonably confident we can rule out Powers since I
don't think Powers count for that.
I'm also inclined to think (via the magic of ESP) that Angel of Berlin
would have been worded as a Wake if they could be, but maybe LSJ had
some other things in mind they could do while really untapped (like, I
don't know, maybe he really wanted to let them fizzle Ambush actions
targeted at them).
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