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"con's bunker" and "adhesive foam grenade"

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owlfile
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"con's bunker" and "adhesive foam grenade"

Hi,

Was playing a game tonight against Miss Information in The Final Wasteland.

Bunker was on my team and had played "adhesive foam grenade" (environment cards cannot be played)

When the environment turn came round I, as part of the start of turn checks, I encountered the "Con's Bunker" start of turn effect (being "either destroy this card or play the top of the environment deck".

Am I correct in my judgement that the only legal option here was to destroy Con's Bunker (as adhesive foam grenade makes it impossible to choose the second option)?

 

Thanks.

AlexxKay
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I suspect so, given other recent rulings involving forbidden actions.

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In the app with RC Wraith's Sleuth power you can choose to play an environment card she has revealed, the play fails and the card is returned to the deck, but you can shoose that action instead of discard.

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phantaskippy wrote:

In the app with RC Wraith's Sleuth power you can choose to play an environment card she has revealed, the play fails and the card is returned to the deck, but you can shoose that action instead of discard.

good point!

... Feels different to me though, that decision is "triggered" by the revealing of the environment card (which is linked to an activated power), it's not the first step. Con's bunker mentions nothing about not being able to reveal cards, so there is no reason one can't play "sleuth"while it is in play, with cons bunker it could be read as flatly environment cards cannot be played so would sugggest the option can't be taken.

The end result of the wraith slueth example would always (? i think) be to discard the card regardless so it doesnt make much difference; with the con's bunker/foam grenade example it would have more of an effect (either being able to recieve the 1 hp healing with no cost, or being forced to destroy con's bunker whether you want to or not).

I love this game, but it can be painful at times, as are all great love stories :/

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phantaskippy wrote:

In the app with RC Wraith's Sleuth power you can choose to play an environment card she has revealed, the play fails and the card is returned to the deck, but you can shoose that action instead of discard.

That is a bug and will be fixed in the next update. The card should be automatically discarded.


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Okay, that clears it up nicely then.

owlfile
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Actually, my question's already been cleared up already (it falls under the "can't trumps can (or may)" rulings in Spiffs guide, not sure why I hadn't remembered this. Cheers.