From: "Chad Martin" <chad@th...>
Monday, May 22, 2006 5:13 AM
Subject: [NetRep] Rulings Digest #109

In Digest #107, I ruled:
The CRF (Site Phase, General) says that: "A company may not play any
resource during the site phase until they have faced all automatic
attacksŠ". Somewhere, perhaps in an old COE, I was told that "play any
resource" means playing any resource from hand or playing the abilities
of any resource on the table. So you couldn't use Cram until you entered
the site. Is this true? The CRF says under "Playing a Card" (CRF,
Rulings By Term) that "Playing a card is the process of bringing a card
from your hand into play." Surely the distinction between whether a
"card played" or a "resource played" shouldn't be so great here as to
change whether it is only stopped when coming from hand? Although maybe
this is a necessary distinction, since it's commonly thought of that
characters "play resources" at sites.

***  One can only play or use resources that affect the automatic
attacks until they have been faced.  This is spelled out in the CRF, as
you mention.  In the case of Cram, untapping a character will change
assignment of strikes, so it affects the attack and is therefore legal
while facing the automatic attacks.

***  This is not technically correct.  The CRF states, under CRF, Turn
Sequence Rulings, Site Phase, Automatic-attacks:
The only resources you may play against automatic-attacks are ones that
cancel the attack, cancel a strike, or would be otherwise playable
during the strike sequence.

Therefore, it is not legal to use Cram before the attack to change
strike assignment.  It is, however, legal to use Cram in the strike
sequence to change a character's tapped status, since that changes
prowess penatlies, and therefore affects the strike.

Chad Martin
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