Slaanesh's Domination - So many questions...

By Toberk, in Warhammer Invasion Rules Questions

The card reads:

"Action: Reveal up to three cards at random from one target opponent's hand. You may play any tactics thus revealed as though they were in your hand for no cost."

Here are my questions:

1 - The revealing process vs. the playing process timing, how does this go? Do you reveal one at a time, choose if you want to play it, then reveal another? If this is the case and you decide not to play the revealed card, does it go back in the hand for a chance to be revealed again?

Another way to reveal is: Reveal all 3 at once. If this is the case, can you choose to play the revealed cards in any order or must you choose to play revealed cards in the order they are revealed.

2 - Stacking of playing revealed cards. If you reveal cards, can you stack the timing of the ones played? Can you stack timing of ones revealed/played with you or your opponent's cards from your hand?

3 - Twin Tailed Comet. If you reveal this card, can you choose to copy another revealed card? Can you play another card from your hand then have it copy that card? Can you make it copy Slaanesh's Domination?

4 - Can you play cards like Brutal Offering with Slaanesh's Domination without paying the sacrifice a unit fee? This would get it out of your opponents hand and not have to destroy one of your units nor hit all units in battlefield.

This card has the potential to be very powerful but I would like to know how to correctly use it. The most powerful version of using it is to draw 3 cards from your opponent's hand then play them in any order you choose but is that correct?

Toberk said:

4 - Can you play cards like Brutal Offering with Slaanesh's Domination without paying the sacrifice a unit fee? This would get it out of your opponents hand and not have to destroy one of your units nor hit all units in battlefield.

General consensus in other card games is that the "at no cost" mention refeers only to the normal cost of playing the card (the cost defined in the game rules). All the additional costs defined in the cardtext mustl still be paid.

I don't think WH:I would be any different from those games. And, IIRC, it was already confirmed that the additional cost "Church of Sigmar" taxes all targeting effects is not waived by those "play at no cost" effects.

For your other questions, it depends what "play from your hand" means during a stack resolution (since you normally can't play card during that particular timing) : perhaps the cards go to a new stack that will get resolved once the current stack (the one Slaanesh's Domination is on) is cleared ? or perhaps they are resolved as part of the resolution of Slaanesh's Dominance effect, preventing any kind of "play in response" opportunintes from both players ?

BTW, I would be much surprised if the 3 cards aren't revealed at once, giving you the choice of the order you want to play them (if you end up with 2-3 tactics among them).

1. All three cards are selected and then revealed at he same time. You may choose to play the cards in any order you wish.

2. Each card can be played essentially as if they were a normal tactic in your hand but they are still part or the resolution process of Slaanesh's Domination so they must be played back to back to back as actions, or as an action and then responses to each other. Once you are done with those the tactics then Slaanesh's Domination is considered to have been successfully resolved and then you move on with the rest of your actions and responses as normal.

3. Yes you can play this to copy another revealed card. I'd suggest sending the other questions to James. I can see arguments for both sides with the rules, though if I had to guess I would say you can play it on a tactic in your own hand only if one was played in response to a card revealed by SD and you couldn't use a revealed TTC to copy your SD unless it is your first tactic played during the resolution of SD.

Just to be clear...Even if the process ends when Slaneesh's is complete, i guess everyone can respond to any individual action...It's a doubt I have.

I.E., my oppo reveals 3 tactics from my hand and one of them is "Demoralize". He plays it...Can I respond to it immediately, as a normal action window?

Thanks.

it's a good question because if we follow the rules : you play Slaneesh's Domination and if no player responds to it, the action resolves and you have no chance to interrupt the resolution of an action.

it would be worth an official answer but as the rules are right now, i would say : no response is possible to revealed cards played.

I sent most of these that seemed unclear to James a few minutes ago. Hopefully we will hear something before Assault appears, since I anticipate hand destruction will be much more viable then.