If The Wraith discards micro-targeting computer for her inventory barrage card, will she still get the benefit of +2 to projectile damage? My guess is no because the card is no longer there...but I just want to make sure.
Also, can powers on ongoing cards can be used on the turn they come into play? I used to play Magic and am used to the summoning sickness mechanic.
Thanks.
That is correct, since Micro-targeting Computer is destroyed, it will no longer give the +2.
Yes powers on recently played ongoing/equipment cards are capable of being used.
Even in Magic, summoning sickness only applies to creatures, and the only hero cards in SOTM which resemble creatures are Unity's robots (though, to be clear, they function normally on the turn they're played). Think of an Ongoing such as Ra's Blazing Tornado as like a global enchantment, or an Aura played on Ra himself, whichever makes it easier for you; regardless, if you put Firebreathing on a creature, you can pay R to give that creature +1/+0 right away, and Powers are likewise usable the turn they're played.
As a side note, you do not 'discard' equipement, which implies that you send them to the trash from your hand. Rather, you destroy equipment, which involves sending your equipment from the field to your trash :)
...preferrably while the villain(s) are standing in the middle of the Wraith Cave's explosion. She goes through more hide-outs that way.
That is correct, since Micro-targeting Computer is destroyed, it will no longer give the +2.
Are we sure about that? When the Explosive Wagon destroys itself, the official ruling is that it still gets its damage bonus even though it's destroyed. Why is this different?
Wagon has an effect that triggers on its own destruction. The card needs to stay in play as that effect resolves (cards in the trash can't resolve effects obviously. That is the entire basis of the End of Days/BeeBot ruling after all).
Micro has no such triggered effect. Also, barrage deals damage equal to the number of cards destroyed, so that presumes the card is destroyed and gone before the damage portion gets a chance to resolve.
Sounds legit.
Wait, what ruling is that?
You can destroy Bee Bot with EoD, and then trigger its efffect to destroy EoD. Essentially, destroying all villain stuff and saving all hero stuff (except Bee Bot).
I will have to try that, eventually. No time soon, as I'm thoroughly sick of End of Days dominating games, but eventually. It's sort of neat that the Catholic hero and the Jewish one would synergize so.
Where does it say Unity's Jewish? I know she's from Israel, but that doesn't prove anything.
Wraith's definitely Jewish though, I remember one of the >G guys posting that.
Her name seems pretty (culturally) Jewish Israeli (as opposed to, say, Palestinian). "Jewish" is typically used as a cultural term when referring to Israelis; according to Wikipedia, 43% of Israeli Jews identify as secular.
According to wikipedia, Ofakim is 99.7% Jewish and other non-Arab with no significant Arab population. If this means anything.
EDIT: It is also worth noting that the golem is from Jewish tradition.
Interesting! I hadn't paid attention to the city of her birth. Someone who is more up on chronology: when would she have been born, given her current age of 19 (if it's determined)? The city seems to have changed substantially over the years.
EDIT: It is also worth noting that the golem is from Jewish tradition.
However, she is not portrayed as any sort of rabbinical scholar…
I was using "Jewish" in a religious sense, since Envisioner was talking about Unity in reference to Fanatic being Catholic.
Incidentally, I have a friend who's from a Jewish family (and therefore of course Jewish in one sense) but Catholic by religion. She claims to be Jewish, but not Jewish. So that's perfectly clear then.
Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Why else wouldn't they just be called Robots?
There are perfectly legitimate reasons to call those things golems outside of the fact that Unity is at least culturally Jewish.
Yes Golems are derived from Jewish folklore, but the connotations associated with words like Robot, Android, Mech, Golem, ect, are very different. Android for instance draws images of having biological and mechanical functions and closely resembling human physiology. Robots are your run of the mill A.I. controled pieces of metal. Mechs conjure images of a Robot with a pilot. Golems on the other hand are anthropomorphic beings, which has a slight distinction from Androids who are still mostly AI based. They have real human emotion and thoughts that are not coming from mechanical proccesses like electric currents and circuits, but imbued from some outside source.
Unity's bots all have distinct personalities imbued in them, at least that is the sense that I get. So Jewish or not, Golem is the most appropriate and accurate term for the things she creates.
I have to be honest, I have never heard of that distinction between andriod and golems. However, I think their personality isn’t theirs, but rather programmed in, which you could so with an android.
I see two issues that say they shouldn’t be called golems. First, Swift Bot talks and golems can’t talk. Second, golems are made from large clump of earth, and are not mechanical or metal. So to go counter to these and call them golems seems to be intentional.
Also, Christopher has already shown he is very knowledgeable in this stuff, and we analyze the game based on this info. If rhis wasn’t on purpose, iy would be an amazong coincidence.
I'm a player of pen and paper RPGs, which uses all sorts of material to create golems, including metals.