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[IAmBatman]

Hallucination: You may resolve the effects of a fate card not named Hallucination in any edge stack as if it were revealed in your edge stack. If the Balance of the Force is with the dark side, resolve the effects twice instead.

 

Allies of Necessity: You may target 2 participating units you control that do not share an affiliation. If you do, one targeted unit gains [Unit Damage] and the other gains [Blast Damage] until the end of the engagement.

 

If the Dark side player does not have two units that do not share an affiliation, can they still trigger Hallucination to gain the icons, assuming they have 2 units. Could they trigger it to gain one of the icons, if they only have 1 unit?

 

 

 

[Lertush]

Hallucination: You may resolve the effects of a fate card not named Hallucination in any edge stack as if it were revealed in your edge stack. If the Balance of the Force is with the dark side, resolve the effects twice instead.[/size]

Allies of Necessity: You may target 2 participating units you control that do not share an affiliation. If you do, one targeted unit gains [Unit Damage] and the other gains [Blast Damage] until the end of the engagement.[/size]

If the Dark side player does not have two units that do not share an affiliation, can they still trigger Hallucination to gain the icons, assuming they have 2 units. Could they trigger it to gain one of the icons, if they only have 1 unit?

In short, i think DS player should control two participating units that do not share an affiliation in order to effectively resolve Allies of Necessity's effect.

Allies of Necessity doesn't read "target two participating units... TO do something".

So, it seems targeting two participating units that do not share an affiliation isn't cost, but part of Allies of Necessity's effect. And the second part begins "If you do", so it will not work if DS player doesn't resolve the first part.

Maybe it should be added, that DS player could resolve Allies of Necessity's effect in any case, but if he doesn't control necessary units, the effect will not be useful.

[dbmeboy]

Lertush has it basically right. Not marking it as solved right now to remind myself to come back and post a more detailed explanation after GenCon.

[dbmeboy]

Best Answer

Hallucination attempts to resolve the effect of Allies of Necessity.  However, the effect would fail at step 1 (check restrictions).  The effect of Allies of Necessity requires targeting 2 participating units which do not share an affiliation.  Per pg 27 of the rule book: If there is no valid target for a targeting effect, the effect cannot be initiated.