Ok I searched high and low, couldn't find a thread on this.

We've been playing with Kat's "Sacrifice" ability acting as if it is uber-powerful. Basically it states:

"One per game, while piloting a viper, send yourself to sickbay to destroy 5 raiders, 2 heavies, 1 basestar or 1 civilian ship"

Now, does this mean you can either blow up 5 raiders+2 heavies+1 basestar.... or is it more as if the commas act as "ors", meaning 5 raiders OR 2 heavies OR 1 basestar? Seeing as there are no "ands" written in that enumeration, it can seem as if they are "ors"...

This has caused debates in my circle, so can someone clarify?

We always played that ability as "ors" not as "and"

I think its too powerful in other ways

According to my knowledge of the english language a list with "or" before the last item means that are all alternatives.

Apart from that the other interpretation sounds quite crazy to me, I mean the Nukes arre supposed to be the big boom of the game and they can blast a maximum of 1 Basestar and 3 Raiders (not heavy) with a 25% chance. Making an ability, even a once per game, able to blast 5 Raiders + 2 Heavy + 1 Basestar with the simple cost of going to the informary is simply too powerful.

Scottie Wolfe said:

To work the way you described where it estroys everything, it would have been phrased "Destroy 5 raiders, 2 heavy raiders, and 1 basestar, or 1 civilian ship"

It have to be OR....

The commas act as "ORs" in this case.

This is the same as the Quorum card "Authorization of Brutal Force".

Correct. When a series of items is listed with commas, the last connecting word (or/and) indicates the nature of the preceding commas. Because the series ends with an "or," each comma counts as an "or." If the series ended with an "and," then each comma would count as an "and."