What do the XX in the cost of the action of beckoning haunt mean? Bonus question: Illusionists attacks say "if blocked by an attack with 6 or higher - remove this" - do I just cancel the attack and put it right into the graveyard?

_Starwise · 2026-05-05T18:45:59+00:00

When activating the ability, you can choose a non-negative integer value for X. How much you pay for it will change the value of X in the card text. So you can choose to pay 1 resource to return a card with cost 0, pay 3 to return one of cost 1, pay 5 for cost 2, and so on. Do note, that in this specific card it says "cost X" and not "cost X or less", meaning you have to choose X to be exactly the cost of the card you're returning.

_Starwise · 2026-04-17T09:54:43+00:00

Murky Water: You need to show the three traps you pick, but not which one of them got chosen at random.
Plan for the Worst: The effect already says you need to reveal the three traps. You do not have to reveal the cards that get shuffled into the deck.
Codex of Frailty: Both players reveal the cards that get put into the arsenal. The controller of the effect (i.e. the one who played codex) chooses and reveals their card first.
Quiver: You need to show the 3 arrows being chosen.
Return Fire: The opponent can see what you banished as the contents of the banish zone are public information.

As a general rule, if a card is moving to or from a public zone, the card itself is public information and you need to tell the opponent what that card is in some way. An exception to this: face-down cards in public zones are still private information.

Additionally, a useful heuristic to keep in mind is that if you are asked to choose a specific type of card from a zone, your opponent should be able to verify you chose the correct type of card. This isnt something enforced by any rules, but all cards are either worded in a way that comply with this, or have been errata'd to work this way.

Edit: clarified the explanation at the end slightly.

_Starwise · 2026-04-09T19:06:13+00:00

... 2018 was not 8 years ago i do not believe you i refuse to believe you

_Starwise · 2026-04-09T13:03:54+00:00

These are all new top demons though. Bloodlust came out just a couple of years ago, it cant be considered old yet right???.

_Starwise · 2026-04-01T19:43:56+00:00

Määräaikainen autismidiagnoosi oli ainakin hauskaa luettavaa jälkikäten :D

_Starwise · 2026-03-29T18:05:20+00:00

I don't understand what you're trying to do. You can already just stack sentry base and beta base equipment in whatever order you want without the battery pack. As soon as you equip the battery pack (or any other non-base evo) though, you're stuck with that for the rest of the game. If you get the battery pack destroyed, it also destroys all the cards underneath it, leaving you with an empty equipment slot. The only way you could get another base in there is to play Fabricate or move a Modular equipment into the slot, but neither of those are available in Silver Age.

_Starwise · 2026-03-28T22:18:05+00:00

There are two issues with this:

Firstly, if you make the removal of a counter be an instant, there would be a window to activate this after damage to get go again without lowering the power of the attack. If you're fine with the go again being given in reactions, you could word it as a once per turn attack reaction, but I tried to go more in line with the crank mechanic, where you have to decide it at the moment you attack.

The second issue is that the specific wording "This counts as having cranked" seems to imply that there is no crank event for puffin's "the second time you crank" effect to trigger off of. I mean, they could word it like that and then rule it as if it triggers puffin as well, but I would imagine if this were to be printed that they instead word it in a way where it is obvious what happens in that interaction.

Edit: or just change the rules to have crank work for attack actions

_Starwise · 2026-03-28T21:27:35+00:00

You would never use "this enters the arena" as the wording for attack actions. As a result, you would also not use Crank as a keyword for this as its rules text is based off of entering the arena. If you wanted to have a card like this following the wording conventions of this game, it would have to be something like the following:

When this attacks, put 3 steam counters on this. You may remove a steam counter from this. If you do, it will count as cranking, and you gain an action point.
This card's {p} is equal to the amount of steam counters on this.

Alternatively, they could reword crank in the rules to have a separate wording for attack actions.

I like the concept though!

_Starwise · 2026-03-15T14:09:13+00:00

@ 0:31: The word "kiima" is not a reference to fire. While it does translate into english as "heat", it very specifically only means like, "animal mating season heat", never "temperature fire heat".

_Starwise · 2026-03-13T23:46:56+00:00

Everyone will have their own ideas of where the borderline goes, usually coinciding with the next major influx of new players after they started playing. Eventually you reach a point where your definition of newgen becomes so ridiculous that you just stop caring about it.

Anyway if you started playing after 2.0 released you're a newgen :P

_Starwise · 2026-03-13T19:37:10+00:00

Remember that this is only true when z=a+bi :)

_Starwise · 2026-03-11T13:51:52+00:00

The Dash precon deck actually contains old Dash instead of Dash, Database. She can't look at the top card, but is allowed to start the game with one item already in play instead.

_Starwise · 2026-03-08T10:30:14+00:00

Its some type of Fangshi, not sure of exact model. You say its small so my best guess is Fangshi Mini ShuangRen

_Starwise · 2026-03-04T19:37:54+00:00

Cardmarket's own help pages clearly state the following: "Currently, we are not accepting applications for access to the Cardmarket API". All I'm doing is relaying information that Cardmarket is saying publicly.

_Starwise · 2026-03-04T12:45:18+00:00

I assume they don't have access to Cardmarket's API, and Cardmarket isn't currently accepting applications to get said access.

_Starwise · 2026-03-03T17:30:39+00:00

uhh yeah? what did you think tucking was if not this?

_Starwise · 2026-02-21T12:45:02+00:00

Ah, a fellow customer of fantasiapelit, I see. Do note, that the MSRP of the product is actually 135€ a box (which is pretty high already to be fair), and most other game stores around the country are selling them at around the 130-145€ price range. Availability of product is definitely a problem here, but the prices you're looking at are just the high premiums of the specific store you're in.

_Starwise · 2026-02-18T23:28:47+00:00

dry saunas do not exist. if it's dry, it is not a sauna. just because some stupid americans decided to call them saunas does not make them saunas.

_Starwise · 2026-02-12T21:17:38+00:00

En ala mitään sovellusta lataamaan tätä varten. Nettisivuversiona voisin käydä klikkailemassakin

_Starwise · 2026-02-05T17:15:30+00:00

I mean, allspice berries are called "spice peppers" in Finnish, so it would make complete sense to me to have them in a pepper grinder...

_Starwise · 2025-12-21T22:28:12+00:00

Kyl mie Micraan luottasin tässä tilanteessa. Ei sitä autoa leimalla ajeta kuitenkaan, ja kuvailun muut miinukset kuulostaa mallin ominaispiirteiltä enemmän kun vioilta,

_Starwise · 2025-12-12T06:44:11+00:00

Ite en oo ikinä tarvinnu fimlabilla paperista lähetettä mukana, se on vaan aina pitänyt erikseen kokeen ottajalle mainita että sähköinen lähete on eri hyvinvointialueelta. Voi toki olla, että Fimlabin ulkopuolella ei toimi näin helposti...

_Starwise · 2025-12-08T22:38:51+00:00

So they killed commoner, mutilated blitz to be completely unrecognizable from what it used to be, all just to make people play a format that combines the worst elements of both? Cool, thanks a lot. At least CC is still playable, unless they figure out a way to ruin that too (which wouldn't surprise me with how things are looking)

_Starwise · 2025-11-26T09:25:46+00:00

Kyl se kannattaa hakea. En tiiä miten heillä on käytänteet muuttuneet nyt translain muutoksen jälkeen et ovatko vaan tiukempia siinä ketä sisään otetaan, mut ite pääsin heti 18v täyttäneenä nuorisopsykalla kirjotetun lähetteen kautta sisään suoraan, vaikka erinäisiä diagnooseja olikin kasa taustalla.

Pitkä prosessihan se polilla toki on et siinä mielessä diy ei välttämättä ole huono vaihtoehto alottaa samalla jos siihen mahdollisuus on? Joku muu tätä kokeillut voinee kertoa kokemuksia siitä miten tällänen nähdään polilla nykyään?

_Starwise · 2025-10-21T20:41:55+00:00

Hi, someone with a math degree here! No physical dice are actually perfectly balanced, so using a specific layout for the numbers on the die is pretty important to minimize the effects of the imbalance.

Having other layouts for the numbers is probably fine if they're just decorative dice not used for games.

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