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Title: Plagued with Diseases and Face of Death
Post by: Red on July 07, 2015, 03:01:59 PM

Does this still work like I think it does? Does Face of Death discard all of my opponent's Heroes if PWD is active?

Title: Re: Plagued with Diseases and Face of Death
Post by: browarod on July 07, 2015, 03:09:45 PM

While Plagued with Diseases is considered a disease itself, it doesn't specify it diseases the characters it decreases (like, for example, Without Food does) so I would think that it would not meet the condition of Face of Death. Not 100% sure, though.

Title: Re: Plagued with Diseases and Face of Death
Post by: Redoubter on July 07, 2015, 03:14:27 PM

Agree with browarod.  PwD is a decrease ability alone, not explicitly a disease ability with an ongoing decrease attached.  The characters it decreases are not considered diseased.

Title: Re: Plagued with Diseases and Face of Death
Post by: browarod on July 07, 2015, 03:21:21 PM

The new Maltese Viper card is actually a great example of the difference between the two types of abilities (albeit with poison instead of disease).

It has a solitary decrease ability (that is not related to a poison) and then a poison+ongoing decrease(+paralyze) ability. The latter actually gives the Hero the "poisoned" status, whereas the former does not.

(https://www.cactusforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Flandofredemption.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FThe_Maltese_Viper.jpg&hash=a15605fc05e8c3f057911b08c9f60db8d5595bf5)