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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Official Rules & Errata => Ruling Questions => Topic started by: Mr.Hiatus on July 16, 2009, 02:19:13 PM
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I asked a few people and I got mixed answers. If a character is sent to my deck or hand are they reset? I always thought they were, and once they do reset doesn't that mean they can re-enter battle? If not please post your evidence in the REG beucase I see nothing saying it can not do it.
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Reseting a unique character (which happens when it is sent to hand/deck/discard pile) does not mean that the character was not previously in the battle. The only way to put the same character in battle a second time is if the means by which it was brought in the first time is negated, because then--according to the definition of negate--it was never in battle to begin with.
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The rule on entering battle is a rule for the battle rather than a rule for the character in it, which means that the character resetting would be irrelevant to his ability to re-enter battle.
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So Basically its not the character that "remembers" being battle, it's the battle "remembers" the character, right?
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In a sense, yes. :)
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How does this jive with the HT/Rescuers Choice ruling?
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I don't get the question. Please elaborate.
Kevin Shride
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It's been ruled that in rescuer's choice situations, if a Lost Soul is shuffled and brought back out with Harvest Time, it has reset and is not the "same" Lost Soul anymore. Based on this, I would assume that in a T1 game I could pull a shuffled generic character with UN because it has reset and is not the "same" Evil Character anymore. But apparently that's not the case?
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Another thread floating around (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=16657.0) was questioning if generic characters could return, and at least some thought that they could. Thus why Justin specified "unique".
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I don't see why they couldn't re-enter battle through a banding card or something like that. But it would depend on what the card says that sent the hero back to hand, deck , etc.