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[doctormungmung]

So this came up in a game last night.  Consider the Jubba Bird:

 

Action: Sacrifice this unit to target a Character or Creature unit and choose a combat icon type. Until the end of the phase, that unit loses all combat icons of the chosen type and cannot gain combat icons. 

 

Now consider Dengar:

 

Elite.
Reaction: After this unit is focused to strike, it gains X different combat icons of your choice until the end of the strike. X is the number of objectives you control with at least 1 captured card. 

 

Can edge enabled icons and non-edge enabled icons be considered the "same type"?  IE, is a black tactics and a white tactics still just a tactics?  Is Tactics a type?  What are the explicit definitions that go along with this question?

[jawbone]

Best Answer

In the rules, p 20,  "Resolving a Strike- Resolving Combat Icons by Type" it says "There are three types of combat icons."   So blast, gun, tactics are the three types.  Within those types, icons may be white or black (allowing for two different icons of the same type).

[yodaman]

Looks like doctormungmung and I played it correctly.   Too bad I used Doole to steal the win from him in that game. 

[theChony]

Don't forget that if Jubba Bird picks unit damage for Dengar, he is lame. Last part of Jubba Bird says that unit cannot gain icons. 

[GreedoShotFirst]

Don't forget that if Jubba Bird picks unit damage for Dengar, he is lame. Last part of Jubba Bird says that unit cannot gain icons. 

 

Wow. This is a big point. As it is written, as long as you sack the Jubba and claim no guns on Dengar, he can't gain anything bombs, guns, or tactics since it doesn't add "of the selected type" to the end of its action. When it says it can't gain icons, it isn't limited to the ones you selected. 

[dbmeboy]

Yep.  Dengar is really not a fan of the birds.