Wyrm Wording

[ABCoLD 0]

I suppose I'm just a little confused.  Wyrm can spend a cred to lower an ICE's strength by one.  Since this isn't breaking the ICE why does the Wyrm need to meet the ICE's strength to do this?

Is this a badly written ability or did I miss something in the rulebook?  (Should the ability have been:  Spend One Credit:  ICE has -1 Strength if Wyrm's Strength is greater than or equal to?)

I mean the card sucks, but I was looking at the FAQ and this blindsided me.

[ABCoLD 0]

Bah, I found it, page 11.  Stupid card.

[radiskull 39]

For anyone else who comes to this thread - you are required to match strength with an icebreaker to "interact" with ice, which is not limited to just breaking subroutines.

[bhosp 0]

Just checking, but Parasite's "trash this Ice when it's strength is 0" takes into account effects that only last during an encounter, like Datasucker, Ice Carver, and Wyrm right? (I thought this was kind of the whole point of Wyrm, actually.)

[etherial 62]

bhosp said:

Just checking, but Parasite's "trash this Ice when it's strength is 0" takes into account effects that only last during an encounter, like Datasucker, Ice Carver, and Wyrm right? (I thought this was kind of the whole point of Wyrm, actually.)

 

Correct.

[bhosp 0]

Yeah, that's what I thought. That means Parasite turns Wyrm from a pretty terrible card into the Grim Reaper that lets you buy extra Parasite tokens for $2.