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Alien Quarter Market

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:05 pm
by Frewfrux
Alien Quarter Market does not specify a non-human :crew you control. Does that mean you can :exert one of your opponent's non-human :crew's, or is this implied?

Re: Alien Quarter Market

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:56 pm
by Horizon Jeff
:exert a Non-Human :crew is a cost as it comes immediately before the colon (rulebook, page 4). You can only pay costs with cards you control (pages 2 and 4).

To a certain extent though, costs are one area we're going to look to clarify/improve in the rulebook, as a few concepts are either assumed the player base will know, or could be explained better.

One instance of the former is that costs are also self-referential. Take Liach, T'zen and Giiar for instance. Her ability is:

:reaction - Jettison: Change the target of an :event or cancel an :event.

We don't actually say anywhere that "Jettison" refers to the card itself. The self-referential default in absence of other identified cards is a common practice, but not one we should have assumed our player base would know.

Alien Quarter Market falls under this as well. It's costs are:

:exert, :exert non-Human :crew:

So the first :exert requires you to :exert Alien Quarter Market.

Re: Alien Quarter Market

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:21 pm
by SolomanMedici
Frewfrux wrote:
Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:05 pm
Does that mean you can :exert one of your opponent's non-human :crew's?
Hey Frewfrux, hands off my aliens! They are the only friends I've got. :lol: :lol:

Re: Alien Quarter Market

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:25 pm
by Frewfrux
SolomanMedici wrote:
Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:21 pm
Hey Frewfrux, hands off my aliens! They are the only friends I've got. :lol: :lol:
Bah!

"If ye can’t trust a pirate, ye damn well can’t trust a merchant either!"

Re: Alien Quarter Market

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:20 pm
by Susurrus
That's a certainty...