Yesterday, I had the great displeasure of running up against the O’Bannon Inner Council with five criminal henchmen at his side. And without any other counters (to a skill 7 character that invalidates the icons of any with less skill than him) in hand at the pivotal point in the game, this question became the determinator of which player would win the last story:
When Maureen de Garmeaux copies another character’s skill, does she copy the printed skill, or the actual skill?
Her text reads neither “printed skill” nor “current skill”, etc, just “Maureen de Garmeaux gains the skill, icons, and text box of that character until the end of the phase.”
Since this is the standard of most card games, I assume it is only the printed skill which is cloned (and has thus resigned my self to the loss of an epic game ), but I would certainly not be surprised if it is the other way around. CoC has surprised me before with dynamic implementations of classic mechanics.