Path of the Master reads (among other things):

Static

While this card is ready in your staging area, players may play any symbol-specific abilities printed on cards they control as if they had the appropriate symbol.

Experienced Combatant reads:

R Discard 2 cards: After your opponent's Ready Step, commit 1 foundation or asset. If you character has the 'picture of order symbol' resource symbol, commit 2 foundations or assets instead.

Question:

Assuming I am not playing a character with the order symbol, can I respond with Experienced Combatant (and PotM is ready) discarding 2 cards and commiting 2 foundations or assets 'as if' I had the appropriate symbol?

- dut

no, when it says symbol specific abilities it means specifically the abilities with a resource symbol printed before the cost. experienced combatant is a clause that if you have [order] the ability changes slightly, the ability is not exclusive to the [order] symbol though.

Of course, that is my first inclination Z. However, the wording of the two cards do lend themselves to ambiguous interpretations, especially if you consider that the second part of the EC ability is 'symbol-specific' and therefore may be able to be played 'as if' the character playing the ability had the symbol that is specified in the text.

Ultimately, I am just looking for an official interpretation so that I can stop wanting to splash fire/void and therefore run experienced combatant in more decks of mine ^^

- dut

No because Experienced Combatant is not an Order symbol character ability. It's something that adds to it if you have said symbol.

Almost correct.

It would not work because the second sentence of Experienced Combatant isn't a separate ability, but rather something that changes the original ability, due to the term "instead".

Basically, Z got it right.

MegaGeese said:

***Stamp***

See the played abilities section of the AGR where symbol specific abilities are defined.