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Re: Is this legal? I'm sure its not ethical, but then, its a game... ... Major Rakal ... [4/27/99 19:04]
>I play a VCM deck, and I like to d/l specific 2 card combos. What if I get a successful d/l probe with FC reg...
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>I d/l 1 card from my q's tent,
>I announce I wish to d/l the second card from my draw deck (although I know it is in my hand already) and purposely go through it just to get the equipment shuffled back in for another good probe...
>I then cannot find it (make a pouty face) and say "Oh! Here it is in my hand, I d/l it from my hand into play!" after shuffling my draw deck (astonished look on face).
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>Now given my opponent may then verify I did not have it anywhere else (he gets to look through draw deck/q's tent/zalkonian) do we then get to continue play, confident the card I draw will be something other than an equipment to improve my chances next turn on probing an equipment?
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>Does this all fall under the "poker face" ethics of any game? (Which, last I checked, is allowable in any card game - you know the type, they draw a card, say "haha exactly what I need to deal with you" to psyche you out from moving you ship...)


You do not even need to announce what card you are planning to download when a download could be any one of a number of cards (and in the case of VCM, it is literally any card). All you do is begin the download process: look through any or all of the four possible download sources, in any order, and finally select a card and show it to your opponent. For example, if you are using the Borg Queen's download in place of a card draw, you simply announce that you are using the Borg Queen's skill to do a download (when you have a card draw to replace), then hunt through your deck etc. until you decide what drone or A Change of Plans" you want to select. If you do look through your deck, you shuffle it.

Jolan tru,

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(Kathy McCracken)

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