22 hours ago, Mep said:I'm reading it as the upgrade needs thermal. I am not seeing periods or conjunctions or additional mays in there, so it seems all conditions need to be met. If you have different people reading the same thing and thinking it means different things, then it is ambiguous.
If it is suppose to be any weapons, it needs to be written something like this.
"Before you activate this character, you may play any weapon from your discard pile on her. The cost is further decreased by 1 if the word "Thermal" is in its title."
Instead it is written, "Before you activate this character, you may play a weapon from your discard pile on her, decreasing its cost by 1 if it has the word "Thermal" in its title."
It really doesn't indicate the "Thermal" as being conditional rather than required, making it ambiguous. It could just read, disregarding the decreased cost, "Before you activate this character, you may play a weapon from your discard pile on her if it has the word "Thermal" in its title."
She is broken with the ambush guns if she can actually chain them like that. Most likely she is just an over cost grenade tosser. Either way, needing to FAQ a card right out of the box like is pretty sad. They can forgo the flavor text and make sure the card is clear.
According to the OED, 'if' can be a substitute for 'when' or 'whenever.' Try substituting the two words and see if that makes more sense to you.