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This ruling from swinefeld was in TheHutts' Mini of the Day thread. I thought it was worth having in its own thread. swinefeld wrote:Mando wrote:TheHutts wrote:Dr. Evazan, from Universe  Homicidal Surgery (Replaces turn: touch; deal 10 damage to a living character. An allied character can instead remove 10 damage from itself with a save of 11.) Something I always enjoyed doing with this guy was using him to clear diplomat walls away in my Vong squads. His Homicidal Surgery, unlike the newer Evazan, isn't an attack and thus can kill diplomats easily. Just little known use for him that I've enjoyed suprising my opponents with over the years. I once played a game with this Evazan and he won me the game cause I was playing th Yuuzhan Vong Quednaks and the opponent had set up a wall of diplomats that my Quednaks could get past. I used Evazan earlier in the squad to purposefully damage my quednaks to get scarification to work, but I ran Evazan up and he took out 3 diplomats that game with his Homicidal Surgery, and turned the tide for my squad which went on to win once the wall was broken. So I'll always love this piece for a long time. Edited: I probably misunderstood when I first read this. If there are no other enemies in LOS, it would work in that case. Nonetheless, it should be mentioned that it targets since there is no reference in the card text or glossary. Quote:Homicidal Surgery uses targeting rules to select an enemy (since no alternative method is specified and selecting an enemy is required.) http://community.wizards.com/comment/12167296#comment-12167296
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So why is this targeting and War Throat is not? Is touch the "targeting" word?
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I don't know if the game would be better off never using the term "targeting" or using it absolutely everywhere, but it really should have been one of the two.
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Caedus wrote:So why is this targeting and War Throat is not? Is touch the "targeting" word? War Throat does not require selecting a character. It affects all characters within range. "Touch" means adjacent and/or self depending on references to enemy/ally (or lack thereof). To my knowledge, it has never been used in reference to more than one character (eg, you are selecting a character) Quote:Heal
Card Text
Replaces attacks: touch; remove 20 damage from a living character
Glossary Text
Instead of making its normal attack or attacks, this character removes [#] damage from an adjacent living character or itself. Heal can’t raise a character’s Hit Points above its starting amount.
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