Sanatorium that lets you “put” two cards from hand ignores Censorship Council which prevent you to "play"more than one card?
I believe so, same as Feral Strike. …or whatever the Feral Ultimate is.
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(Note that for all these questions, I’m using “plague damage” to apply to combat damage dealt in the form of -1/-1 runes, such as from Orpal Gloor or Poisonblade Rogue).
- How does plague damage interact with armor? The way I’ve been playing it is that it simply destroys the armor, without adding runes to the targeted card. For instance, if a tier 2 Orpal Gloor attacks an undamaged squad leader, he destroys the armor for the turn and deals a single -1/-1 token to that unit. Is this correct?
- In what order does tower / plague damage apply, with respect to armor, when defending? For example, let’s say a player attacks a Plague Spitter with an Inverse Power Ninja. The attacking player has Safe Attacking, which gives 1 armor to the Ninja when attacking, and the defending player has a tower. Does the Ninja take 3 -1/-1 tokens, or 2 tokens and 1 damage? The asynchronicity rule states that the defending player doesn’t get to decide the order that damage is applied; does the attacking player get to decide?
- The Rulebook v46 states, on page 4: “You can sacrifice your own add-on if you want (and deal 2 damage to your base), in order to make room for a new add-on.” Do you have to attack your own add-on to sacrifice it, or can you simply destroy it for free (taking the two base damage)?
- If a player plays Jade Fox, Den’s Headmistress, and only has Ninja units on the board, is that player now extremely vulnerable to attacks from non-fliers? This came up in a game with my brother, where he played her while while having 4 1/1 Ninja token blockers, and I simply marched into his base and killed him.
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Yes, that’s right
Good Question! I’m not sure. I’d guess the Tower deals damage to armor first, but it might be active player chooses? Anyone else?
You can just sacrifice it. You are never able to attack your own buildings
That’s correct. All your Ninjas become flyers, so non-flyers can just walk in.
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- You are correct. Basically instead of placing a damage counter, you place a -1/-1 rune. Poisonblade Rogue makes this pretty clear, as she explicitly has armor piercing on top of dealing plague damage.
- I haven’t thought about this, but all damage happens simultaneously, so the active player should get to decide the order in which it is applied.
- You cannot attack your add-on at all. You can sacrifice it at will to destroy it. You can even sacrifice it and rebuild the same addon there to clear damage on it (at the cost of 2 damage to base).
- Yep! Fliers can’t choose to ground themselves, so you can just run under them if they don’t have anything else.
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In any case where things happen simultaneously and an order must be chosen, the active player determines the order of resolution.
Tries to think up an obscure edge case where it would be beneficial to take an extra -1/-1 rune instead of a normal damage
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http://codexcarddb.com/card/behind_the_ferns
Also, maybe you have Sparring partner, and the attacker already has a + rune, so by taking a - rune you can “heal” the damage by re-training.
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Yeah, I did think of that - and Hidden Ninja. I’m not sure how practical it is, given that you’ve just attacked with the unit so (barring having Geiger and Ready or Not to hand) you won’t be able to make use of that stealth that turn. I guess you could be planning to use those cards next turn, but that’s getting pretty contrived - although I guess that’s what I asked for 
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Was this question officially ruled?
This is the official ruling that would apply, as far as I know.
This sounds fine, for when things take damage in the form of -1/-1 runes and normal damage simultaneously, which I think can only happen if a Tower is dealing the normal damage.
This is B, both copies go off as soon as your first non-token unit leaves play from something other than combat damage each turn. If only one thing left play, the second copy of the ability cannot return it to play second time since it is already in play, so it does nothing.
If multiple things left play at the same time, each copy of the ability will choose randomly from among the things that left play and haven’t changed zones (again) yet.
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Why randomly? Why not allow active player to choose and keep it consistent with other simultaneous actions/resolution rulings?
That’s what it says on the card.
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seems like a good reason!
yes, lots and lots of times :’(
Really?? I replied to it because I didn’t think I had so far.
I think there was just confusion that @MVashM was replying to a question farther up and not the current discussion, which was about a ruled issue.
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Does shuriken hail deal 1 damage to patrollers of every opponent?