If the new mezhan kwaad uses her neural mapping, then gets defeated before her next activation, is the effect continuous? Or does it turn off ? I see a loophole, and hopefully I can exploit it ;)

I'd also like to know how this would work.

The card text says that the affected character retains Neural Mapping till Kwaad's next activation. If Kwaad dies, then she never gets another act so it would look like NM would stay. I'm sure there's something we're missing but i can't see what......

I do not think this is correct.

You have to be adjacent to give it, but you don't have to stay adjacent. (Wow she would really suck if you had to. Practically unusable)

As far as if it stays when she dies,

I believe Swinefeld nailed it. It will go away

Well, I think that the original wording of Neural Mapping is the issue. It's simply too vague. If you consider the Power Coupling ability (or Rangefind as you just mentioned), the definition specifies that the character who recieved the bonus cannot move (or at least must remain adjacent).

Power Coupling: At the end of its turn, this character can choose 1 adjacent Small or Medium ally who does not have Melee Attack. That ally gains Extra Attack until the end of this character's next turn, or until this character is no longer adjacent.

Neutral Mapping makes no such distinction, and it appears there is no reason why the character receiving the bonus could not move. It doesn't consider the possiblity that the character with Neutral Mapping might not have another turn to activate, whereas other effects do. For another example, consider the Stormtrooper Commander's CE:

At the end of this character's turn, choose 1 adjacent non-Unique follower. That follower gets +10 Damage until the end of this character's next turn, or until this character is defeated.

You would have to ask the set designers; Neutral Mapping is worded rather vaguely. There is a serious loophole in the text wording (or in this case, a lack thereof). Sounds like we might need some errata.

When I get my cards, I will double check to see if it needs errata.

A slightly different question on Neural Mapping - how does the Yammosk interact with the piece that gets Neural Mapping. If I have a Cad Bane that's taken 20 damage, and whose been given Neural Mapping by Kwaad, and I also have a Praetorite Vong Priest in the squad, does Cad Bane have to be within 6 of the Priest to get the Scarification bonus?

I don't think the neural mapped character will benefit from the Yammosk. It is not Vong, regardless of it being subject to Vong abilities. The key part is "grant bonuses to Yuuzhan Vong".

For example, Vong can use the Yammosk to extend range 6 Fringe CEs that affect them, while Fringe allies still count range for those normally. I think this is pretty much the same situation.

Of course, the glossary could specifically define it that way (perhaps that IS the intent). I'm curious as to how it will end up.

While I see what you are getting at...



So...yeah, this will need a Scott ruling. YWC affects SAs and CEs the same way.

hmm, this is 100% a Scott question. I know what that the intent was for it to work that way, but because of previous rulings on the way coordinator, specifically the fact that fringe SAs that can affect characters in the Vong faction (czerka giving Nom Jolt assuming a shaper from across the board) are extended seems to mean that abilities that affect vong characters is the key and not abilites that affect vong characters meaning that in order to be affected by the range extension you must be of the Vong faction. It applys to the beneficiary and not the sender so to speak. Since I don't think that Neural Mapping makes you Vong, I would think that you would still be hampered by the range of the ability even though now you can benefit from them. I hope that I am just over-thinking this and it will end up working how I believe it was intended too, but that is up to Scott.

Glossary should clear this up. It should be worded something like this.

Neural Mapping - Replaces attacks: touch; until this character’s next activation, one non-Yuuzhan Vong living ally is subject to Yuuzhan Vong special abilities. The chosen character is considered Yuuzhan Vong for the purposes of special abilities. This applies to the chosen character until this characters next activation or until this character is defeated.

I guess the ideal wording for the ability should have been

Neural Mapping - Replaces attacks: touch; until this character’s next activation or it is defeated, one non-Yuuzhan Vong living ally is considered Yuuzhan Vong for the purposes of special abilities.