So... when spending 3 engineering points to "Choose and discard a faceup or facedown damage card". Am i allowed to look at the critical effect printed on the reverse of the facedown damage cards?
Some effects/scenarios have the ability to flip these cards faceup, and there are some that you want to see gone more than others.
So... when spending 3 engineering points to "Choose and discard a faceup or facedown damage card". Am i allowed to look at the critical effect printed on the reverse of the facedown damage cards?
Some effects/scenarios have the ability to flip these cards faceup, and there are some that you want to see gone more than others.
A Facedown Card is Facedown until such time it is face up...
As the effect is simply to take one of those cards and discard it, I would say probably not... It does not say you can look at them to choose...
Is it 100% stated as such? No. But that seems the logic permissability of it.
The question you have to ask yourself is "do the rules allow me to do this." Not "do the rules disallowe me to do this." In short no you can't look at the facedown cards. They are the worst kind of surprise.
Thats what i thought....
Came about in a game recently, we were playing Precision Strike and as luck would have it i managed to drop a Structural Damage and a Projector Misaligned onto a Star Destroyer. Subsequently every attack against that ship i was flipping a random card over, applying the effect then flipping it facedown again.
So following on from that... Precision strike is now my go-to red scenario, and i have tailored my list to include General dodonna and Dodonna's Pride to help me drop the right crits on things. Not foolproof, but nasty.
Thats what i thought....
Came about in a game recently, we were playing Precision Strike and as luck would have it i managed to drop a Structural Damage and a Projector Misaligned onto a Star Destroyer. Subsequently every attack against that ship i was flipping a random card over, applying the effect then flipping it facedown again.
So following on from that... Precision strike is now my go-to red scenario, and i have tailored my list to include General dodonna and Dodonna's Pride to help me drop the right crits on things. Not foolproof, but nasty.
Precision strike is amazing against ships with large hull values. That way they don't accidently die along the way and you can do just what you did. Great job sir.