Hi all,
Simple question: I have Sorcerer of Tzeentch in play (Action: When you play a development from your hand, put a resource token on this unit. Then, deal X damage to target unit. X is the number of resource tokens on this unit.), my opponent has nothing (let's say it's my first turn and all I did was play SoT).
If I develop and there is no target for the "Then..." part of the action, do I still get to put a token on my SoT?
If I can't, that makes sense to me under the umbrella of "you gotta have targets to do anything." If I can, then why?
In a lot of other card games (I'll just reference L5R cause I know that one) you treat the cards like the sentences are kind of independent, if that makes sense. So a 0 cost card in one of those games could say "Give your unit one damage. Spend one resource." If that card existed and you had no more resources you could still play it in those other games' rules system. First step: You give your unit the damage. Second step is impossible, so you skip it. What's even more messed up is that if there were more text you'd simply skip the parts you can't do and do the parts you can. In Invasion it strikes me that you have to be able to execute the entire card with respect to "targets" (a perfect counter-example to the interpretation above would be Plague Bomb and how all 3 targets must exist for you to play it, despite the separation by periods). Thus, I wouldn't think you'd get a token off the development even though it says "then".