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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Official Rules & Errata => Ruling Questions => Topic started by: SignoftheStar on November 02, 2011, 05:57:21 PM
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A converted Character retains abilities. Does it lose its special abilities?
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That depends. An evil character converted to a Hero retains its abilities unless an ability can harm another hero.
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Makes sense.
So I'm going to go ahead and assume that:
Evil Banding is out of the question
Negating/Interrupting/Preventing good cards is out. (or is it?)
Discarding/Capturing/Removing Heroes is out.
And from there we proceed to something of a case-on-case basis.
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A converted Character retains abilities. Does it lose its special abilities?
The abilities stay the same on converted characters. A converted Evil Character retains special abilities unless it does something un-heroic like if it said "discard a hero", it would lose that ability. A Hero loses its Special ability, regardless of the special abilities nature when converted to an EC.
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Huh. That's interesting.
Thank you very much, Redwing!
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That's not true, actually. A Hero will always lose his SA when converted to an EC. An EC will retain its ability unless it targets a Hero specifically, not to be confused with a SA that could potentially target a Hero. For example, an SA that says "Discard a Hero" would not convert, but a SA that says "Discard a Character" would. A SA that says "Negate a Hero" would not convert, but one that says "Negate all Characters" would.
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Pardon me, Minister Polarius, but isn't that what Redwing said?
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Pardon me, Minister Polarius, but isn't that what Redwing said?
I'm assuming yes, he might have thought when Redwing said "abilities stay the same," which means */*, not special ability.
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But Redwing did mention that thing about the Special Abilities.
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It's not the same thing he said. "Un-heroic-like" is not the criterion, targeting a Hero is.
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A converted Character retains abilities. Does it lose its special abilities?
only if that Character is 20% Cooler than the rest in play
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Sadly, Saint Rainbow Dash has not been made a card yet.