Before the Black Throne (TCU 6 of 6) & Bonded Cards

[Duciris 1,347]

18 hours ago, Soakman said:

I would assume that only the lexicon would take up a slot. The requirements are for deck construction and bonded cards are not part of your deck until Lexicon (or whatever parent card) is put into play.

Seconded.  (Thirded, I guess.)

[Allonym 954]

19 hours ago, Soakman said:

I would assume that only the lexicon would take up a slot. The requirements are for deck construction and bonded cards are not part of your deck until Lexicon (or whatever parent card) is put into play.

That's just an assumption though.

I think that absolutely has to be the case, since the Lexicon has entirely different traits to the Blood Rites, and investigators have deckbuilding options that specify certain traits; for instance, otherwise there would be a big problem if Akachi included the Lexicon since her Occult deckbuilding option doesn't extend to the Blood Rites - and what would happen if Carolyn Fern ended up using the Lexicon and having a total of 14 Seeker/Mystic cards in her deck, would she only be able to add one Blood Rite since she's limited to 15? These would be pretty absurd scenarios. 

[rsdockery 537]

Also, Blood Rite doesn't have a level, and therefore cannot be legally included in any investigator's deck.

[Carthoris 248]

Yes, as I read it, the bonded cards are never "built" or "included" into an investigator deck. They are added to the deck only during play, and do not remain there after the end of the game.

[PJimo 41]

The Bonded cards are more like charges than they are independent cards. No way would they count to the deck count or limit.

[phillos 1,518]

I agree.  I can't imagine they count against your deck limit considering that sounds very exploitable if they give us enough bonded cards.  You could effectively shrink your deck size, which would be problematic.

[armin321 9]

According to the article "the event that it summons is not a part of your investigator deck and does not count toward your deck size"

 

so yes to the above

[Duciris 1,347]

17 hours ago, armin321 said:

According to the article "the event that it summons is not a part of your investigator deck and does not count toward your deck size"

 

so yes to the above

There you go, reading again.

[CSerpent 520]

17 hours ago, armin321 said:

According to the article "the event that it summons is not a part of your investigator deck and does not count toward your deck size"

 

so yes to the above

Of course, the way other recent articles have handled the rules, the printed rules will say that they count if your standard deck size is over 30, unless it can also take Guardian Level 3 or above, in which case, yes.  The PDF released the same day will be different.

[Sindriss 52]

 

"the event that it summons is not a part of your investigator deck and does not count toward your deck size unless the investigator's deck requirements use the word the, is a Seeker with access to Mystic cards, has a combat of 3 or less, or the moon is full on a Wednesday.

Edited March 29, 2019 by Sindriss

[SamWeiss 70]

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