[RULES] Battle Boards V1.218 - Neo Dynasty - Battle Gaiden

Can you satisfy True Classicist and Akroma's Memorial with one previous incarnation? Ie, no non evergreen keywords, and no new card types, and only having that character as a previous incarnation? 

I see. On a similar note, does switching back to a previous incarnation count as a reincarnation? 

Yeah, I was just curious as I was wondering how to potentially cram as many achievements and points into one character as quickly as possible. 

Rules wise though, I understand that ultra instinct 'reborn' forms of characters you've already played probably doesn't count as reincarnation. (Like A - > B - > A but stronger). 

Does the mechanic Hidden Agenda have to be acquired via "Beyond the Evergreen" or does it come with Renowned Spy? 

Magus of the Forgotten is in the advanced perks section. Pretty sure that means it's a perk.

I have a question about achievements. If I buy Tribal for Holistic Wisdom, but I have no other keywords or card types/subtypes (outside the basic ones) can I get also Akroma's Memorial? I don't know if this is well explained.

Apologies if this was already mentioned somewhere and I missed it, but do you have to spend all your starting skill points or can you save them to use later?

Cool, thanks.

Another question: is there any way to make custom perks? I had an idea for something along the lines of "If a player accepts your gift, you can give them a Corruption point" (which would be added to their board along with Valor and everything else; you'd choose when making the post whether it gives Corruption or not, and if they don't want to deal with this nonsense they can just treat the gift as an attack like normal). Then the perk would also let you reference Corruption points when making cards.

I realize this is kind of complicated and fiddly, but I noticed some people were trying to do something similar with poison counters and I thought having a formalized version could potentially be interesting.

For Planar Champion, would we be allowed to create a plane card based in The Arena, or does it explicitly have to be outside of the Arena. 

I see. Yeah, I definitely planned a specific subsection rather than the whole plane. Would it require the same stipulations as a location to create it, or would it just be there? Would it just be better to create a location instead if I wanted it on plane? 

Popcornia

Depends on what it is - it's not necessarily better to be a location.  Location is more if you can part with it from your character.  I've had thoughts about Rolt's office being a Location, but it wouldn't make sense for someone else to rule it.  Plus, mechanically, the plane part would just affect people wherever they were at that spot (i.e., you could attack someone who was technically at that spot and still have them under the effect), while a location is specifically the location for the effect.

In the end, I don't think anyone minds too much what you do with it, as long as it's not some oppressive, game-breaking thing, or messes too bad with the lore of the arena and what-not, y'know?  Go with your gut, I say! : )

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Or, uh, yeah, that thing that cajun said.  You get the idea

There aren't really any stipulations to Plane cards - it's basically just the "I have a Commander!" advanced perk¹, except you trade "dies to removal" for "it only affects my board".

If you want something that people can fight over, you've got to make a location, with all that that entails.

Honestly, though, all of this only applies if you want there to be a consistent mechanical perk for being in a specific place. Otherwise you just come up with a location, maybe theme some of your defenses around being there, and be happy.

¹ Which I have a question about - if I wanted to buy a Commander for Mattol (in the far future, obviously), could I make a Creature or Planeswalker card, despite Mattol having neither of those masteries?

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Random question for the folks - if I've claimed the Evil Twin cheevo, how acceptable to you think it would be for me to later buy one of the colors or masteries my last character had? I know Gurfaffles traded it in when he bought Creature Mastery on Rolt, but that's not actually anywhere in the rules...?

Because I've been thinking about Mattol, and realized that he'd basically just be Kirino 2.0 if I expanded into , but expanding into or would be hedging in on Hanska's territory.

EDIT: I am the slowest of peoples .

I missed the Evil Twin clause because it's not actually in the rules. It's just a clarification of intent that ZephyrPhantom made when asked, which was never added to the original post. It'd be nice if that was added to the Reincarnation section - on another re-read, it actually just straight-up forbids it.

Buying off achievements also leaves me in the weird edge-case where I had skill points left over from character creation (I covered everything I wanted with 11 points out of the 13 I had). If I buy Evil Twin off, does that mean I retroactively don't qualify for the "Advanced Perk at character creation" thing, thus losing me Credo of the Ruler?

Basically, I think I inadvertently gamed the system, and that makes me sad.

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The commander one, however, is just a case of me not reading properly. Though it does make me think that there should be extra perks to burn Mana on, for people going for Homicidal Seclusion builds (this has nothing to do with the fact that all of my characters are Homicidal Seclusion builds .)

It might also be a nice idea if you could get multiple Commanders at once (assuming you bought Partner) - that would be helpful for certain character concepts, I think (it might break the "action economy" of the boards, but Tactical Imperator + Sigil of the Commander already allows three-card attacks/defenses, so that ship has already sailed).

I didn't want to name names .

On a related topic: I really wish that there was something to sink Valor into that wasn't new keywords, colors, or a higher CMC after a certain point. I ran into this issue with Hanska, where I had bought everything I actually wanted, then just kind of sat on my last 100-or-so Valor before I reincarnated. Yeah, you can buy new sets or whatever but, again, Homicidal Seclusion builds.

I just feel that right now there's a really strong incentive to go the cajun/Windy route of "I'm running multiple characters in parallel, using mere fractions of my real capabilities for each" (sorry to pick on you guys, but...), especially since there are achievements for "have all the types" and "have all the colors".

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Screw it, I might start a Valor service for Mattol. I think I have an idea for a good one.