01-21-2012, 03:13 PM | #1 |
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Rules Discrepancy - Divine Intervention Card
Heya! Just joined the forum because my roommates were having a debate over the validity of, what I think, is a very clever (if ambiguous) series of an initial winning strategy and a counter.
Basically, it goes like this: we're playing with the original set of Munchkin cards. My roommate - Michael - was a Cleric class. He's level 9, about to win, when he plays the Wand of Dowsing, allowing him to go back through the discard pile and pick any card he wants. He chooses Divine Intervention, which allows clerics to go up a level immediately, and can be used to get to level 10 and win the game. Then, my roommate Blake uses the Change Class card. I feel like this is the only way to really counter the divine intervention card, and so does Blake. However, Michael disagrees and states that he'd have had to use the Change Class curse BEFORE he used the Wand of Dowsing to get the Divine Intervention card. Now, while I see the legitimacy of both sides, I feel like the only way to have an effective STRATEGY (as opposed to simple luck at having played the Change Class card before you even knew your opponent was going to use the Wand of Dowsing to get Divine Intervention) is to allow for the initial strategy of leveling up a cleric to happen, only to COUNTER with changing the class. It seems more clever and fun to make deliberate counters, as opposed to just randomly playing cards in the hopes that someone's day gets ruined. The way we played it out, with Michael winning and Blake's counter-strategy being invalidated, seems to take more power out of the hands of the player, and put it into the simple serendipity of drawing cards from the deck and blindly throwing cards around. What do you guys think? Should we have kept playing with Michael's strategy having been invalidated? Or was it right that Michael won, despite Blake's strategic and unconventional use of the Change Class card? Looking forward to what the forum has to say about this! |
01-21-2012, 03:50 PM | #2 |
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Re: Rules Discrepancy - Divine Intervention Card
Munchkin resolves cards as they are played. If a player is a Cleric when Divine Intervention comes out -- however it comes out -- he gets the level immediately.
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01-21-2012, 04:42 PM | #3 | |
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01-21-2012, 05:18 PM | #4 |
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Re: Rules Discrepancy - Divine Intervention Card
Once he pulls the DI card, he has to play the card immediately. There isn't a window of decision with this the way there is with some other cards. If you want to make him lose his Class, play the card before he finishes going through the discard piles.
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01-21-2012, 07:50 PM | #5 |
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Re: Rules Discrepancy - Divine Intervention Card
Yeah, if a L9 cleric starts digging through the discard pile, I'd be sure to get rid of his class as soon as reasonably possible.
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01-22-2012, 05:06 AM | #6 |
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Re: Rules Discrepancy - Divine Intervention Card
In many other card games, a system called a stack is used. It works as follows. When someone plays a card, another player can play a different card on "the stack". Then once ppl stop playing cards on the stack, you resolve by starting with the most recently played card. Meaning in your specific case, he would lose his class and not gain the level even through DI was played first.
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01-22-2012, 05:20 AM | #7 |
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Re: Rules Discrepancy - Divine Intervention Card
EDIT: Ignore this post, it's wrong.
That won't work in Munchkin. He can only dig through a discard if a card allows him to do so, and the effect of that card must be resolved before any other card can be played (with a small number of exceptions such as Annihilation). So if he's digging through the discard pile, it's too late to stop him from pulling and playing Divine Intervention.
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01-22-2012, 05:45 AM | #8 | |
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01-22-2012, 06:41 AM | #9 |
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Re: Rules Discrepancy - Divine Intervention Card
EDIT: Ignore this post, it's wrong.
Not exactly. I'm saying that once he begins looking through the discard pile, it's already too late to make him lose his class.
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01-22-2012, 07:00 AM | #10 | |
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