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Thanks, Ktom. That was the exact answer I was looking for.
Issue 5 is up, this week we have a look at both the draw phase in general and conflicting passives from two Kings of Winter Agendas.
Passives aren't resolved in the order the text appears on the card?
Effects of a single ability are resolved in the order they appear. But multiple passive abilities (even from a single card, like Kings of Winter) resolve in an order chosen by the first player.
mdc273 said:
Passives aren't resolved in the order the text appears on the card?
What specific card prompted the question?
ktom said:
mdc273 said:
Passives aren't resolved in the order the text appears on the card?
There is kind of an "it depends" answer here because technically, unless passives conflict, they happen simultaneously and there is no order to them.
What specific card prompted the question?
We had a heavy dose of Kings of Winter in our draw phase example, with two Kings of Winter players squaring off and both Crown of Azor Ahai and Cotter Pyke in play (no ravens).
WWDrakey said:
We had a heavy dose of Kings of Winter in our draw phase example, with two Kings of Winter players squaring off and both Crown of Azor Ahai and Cotter Pyke in play (no ravens).
workMultiple passives that conflict are resolved in the order determined by the First Player. The effects on these Agendas are separate and all conflict with each other. So yeah, the First Player could say "his Summer, her Winer, her Summer, her Winter."
The point is that the First Player is not choosing the order in which the cards activate; s/he is choosing the order in which the effects activate. When there is one passive effect per card, it looks like the same thing. When there are multiple passive effects on a single card, it can get confusing.
To back up what Khudzin was saying, when there is a single initiation on the card, you run that effect in the order it appears on the card. (You'll see that more often on triggered effects than passives.) But when there are multiple initiations (as there are on the KoW Agenda), if they conflict, the First Player chooses the order.
Yeah, I made a point in explaining the peculiarity of the situation in the example… and I'd be the first to admit that it was more than slightly contrived, but it served for explaining:
- How the end-of-phase framework action works
- That Summer and Winter are not mutually exclusive
- How conflicting passives (the different passive effects from Kings of Winter) are resolved
…mainly of course, it helped make our Draw phase example a bit more entertaining. 
Issue 6 is up here, concentrating on Pyat Pree and replacement effects.
We're talking about Outwit and some timing issues that might come as asurprise to some.
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We take a look at the keywords and their potential pitfalls.
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