Not necessarily. The problem is whether the construction is of the sort of You must do X or You must do Y if you do X.

More specifically, in the sentence "You may go home, but you must leave," that might be a sentence of the first bolded type.

That is, X might be "You may choose to go home but if you do, you must leave."

So, You may X. What is X? Having the option of going home after leaving.

An alternate construction is of the second type. You must leave. You may go home. In the previous case, you have one rule that gives you an option (that gives you an option and a requirement) while in the second case, you have two separate rules that operate independently of each other (the first rule concerns where you might go, while the second dictates you must leave).

That's why specific instructions are so important. Grammar is rough.

Always go with what Brad said: Take the rules literally.

That's also what I say.

Always go with what Brad said: Take the rules literally.

Doesn't help when you disagree on the literal meaning of the text, as is happening here.

Doesn't help when you disagree on the literal meaning of the text, as is happening here.

Also when official rulings are exactly counter to a literal reading of the rules/card, like with Imperial Power Fist.

An edge case, but if accompanied by Nazdreg and no other units then the Sneakaz can squeeze out one more damage by using their reaction on themselves

Also when official rulings are exactly counter to a literal reading of the rules/card, like with Imperial Power Fist.

Which card? What's the ruling?

An edge case, but if accompanied by Nazdreg and no other units then the Sneakaz can squeeze out one more damage by using their reaction on themselves

can you ready a ready unit?

can you ready a ready unit?

Technically, you can't.  But that doesn't keep Kommando Sneakaz from targetting a ready unit.  His ability has two parts, and they don't depend on each other, so you are allowed to target a ready unit, fail to ready it, and deal it 1 damage.  Because of the 1 damage, it is considered to change game state.

Which card? What's the ruling?

Imperial Power Fist.  As this thread has already gone off topic enough, maybe you could check the rules subforum, or else we can have the rest of this part of the discussion under Imperial Power Fist once it is released (4th or 5th pack of Death World).

As explained above, you can initiate a card ability if all or part of it can resolve

Summary Execution uses a different wording though. It says "Then, draw a card", which means the card draw only triggers if the preceding text resolved.

On this card, it says "and". Do this *and* do that. One doesn't depend on the other.

If it had instead said "After you deploy this unit, ready a target [Ork] unit you control at this planet. Then, deal it 1 damage", then you are correct, damage could only be dealt if you first readied a unit.

I'm not entirely sure you can damage a ready unit. The phrase combines the effects of both readying AND dealing damage. Like Summary Execution can't be used at a green planet to draw a card, even though you sacrifice a unit, so there is a change of gamestate. 

I don't really like the Summary Execution ruling, but it's not the same thing. Summary Execution uses "Do x THEN do y" wording, which is defined such that if x doesn't happen, then you don't do y.  The ruling basically says that adding a green icon to a planet that already has one is a change in game state to allow the use of the action, but that it didn't successfully add a green icon so you can't do the "post-then" part.

Kommando Sneakaz does not use the word "then".  It's effect is simply a 2 part effect - ready and deal a damage.  You resolve as much of that effect as you can.

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Technically, you can't.  But that doesn't keep Kommando Sneakaz from targetting a ready unit.  His ability has two parts, and they don't depend on each other, so you are allowed to target a ready unit, fail to ready it, and deal it 1 damage.  Because of the 1 damage, it is considered to change game state.

 

 

 

Imperial Power Fist.  As this thread has already gone off topic enough, maybe you could check the rules subforum, or else we can have the rest of this part of the discussion under Imperial Power Fist once it is released (4th or 5th pack of Death World).

Ah, yeah. I searched for the card on the card search database but it didn't pop up, so I thought maybe it was one of those cards that  had some other word in front of it that was keeping me from finding it ("Awesome Imperial Power Fist?").

Then, sometime after posting, I did a search on Google and found the comments on the forum. Oops.

can i shield the dmg from kommando?

Sure. Damage can be shielded any time it is assigned as the result of an attack or a card effect. The damage dealt by Kommando is part of a card effect, so shields can be used.

Damage that is moved cannot be shielded, and damage that is dealt to pay a cost (i.e., "deal X damage to [do something]") cannot be shielded, but neither situation applies here.