Ranger Taming and Transferal Potion (redux)

[Sabin]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

A Ranger cannot tame a monster he is not fighting.

And, once again, please note that there are over 4,500 Munchkin cards -- we CANNOT write every card to cover every contingency. The case when someone else is in a combat on your turn is rare enough that we aren't going to distort language to deal with it. (In fact, I'm considering reversing the previous Magic Lamp ruling because I think I was prioritizing cute effects over fairness.)

So then, the operative word for this question is the very first in the power's description, "In"! To be clear, I wasn't suggesting a rewrite or erratum. This answer, and Clipper's first response, are perfectly consistent with how we eventually adjudicated it in-game (after much philosopher-class debate), and I want to thank you both for the confirmation!

--aside--
Being a former DCI tournament judge for M:tG leaves me with old (and bad) habits of seeing things as Interrupts and stacks, the latter of which doesn't exist here and the former is exceedingly rare (e.g. Annihilation).
--/aside--

Thanks again, everyone!