Samthere wrote:
There is no reason to believe that healing ray applies to everyone. Healing ray allows you to use your heart dice to heal other monsters, not all monsters. So, instead of using your heart to heal yourself, you can give it up to heal a different monster by 1 point.
The card says that they must pay you 2E for each damage that you heal. If they are at max health, you didn't heal a damage, the same way that you don't heal damage if you roll hearts for yourself at max health.
Whether you can use heal ray as the king is less clear, but in my games I would allow it - the rulebook says you can't use heart dice, but the card says you can. Since this is a rules conflict, I go with the golden rule of "specific beats general", and thus the rule written on the card overrides (unless the rulebook specifically overrides the cards). Since this is Richard Garfield, I'd say it's fairly safe to, in general, obey this principal.
The card says that they must pay you 2E for each damage that you heal. If they are at max health, you didn't heal a damage, the same way that you don't heal damage if you roll hearts for yourself at max health.
Whether you can use heal ray as the king is less clear, but in my games I would allow it - the rulebook says you can't use heart dice, but the card says you can. Since this is a rules conflict, I go with the golden rule of "specific beats general", and thus the rule written on the card overrides (unless the rulebook specifically overrides the cards). Since this is Richard Garfield, I'd say it's fairly safe to, in general, obey this principal.
That is how we interpreted the card also. The card says "you can heal other monsters with your heart results. They must pay you 2 energy for each damage you heal". To me this is not overpowered. Let's say I roll 4 hearts. I use two hearts to heal the player to my left and he must give me 4 energy. I use one heart to heal the player to my right and she gives me 2 energy. I keep the fourth heart to heal myself.
Healing others is not that great an idea. So this card is usefull if your health is at 10 and you roll hearts on your third roll. This way those hearts are not wasted. It is especially usefull if you are in Tokyo and you roll hearts on your third roll. In which case you get energy insted of nothing for hearts. Another use of the card is to get large amounts of energy quickly to buy a special card that is expensive.
