Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: removing shrink and poison counters in Tokyo?

by ras2124

Hermjard wrote:

Well, what interpretion is left in the following sentence:

"Hearts you used to remove counters, cannot be used for healing.".

It's clear for me in this sentence, that removing counters cannot be healing then. Not even another type or healing, or equivalent to healing. Otherwise this sentence would be contradictionary to itself.

I don't know if this is an English thing or not, but I see it as you rolled a heart so you have to use that as poison medicine instead of medicine for your wound as you would normally do. If you were allowed to do both with a heart, I would see the poison as separate from the healing since you get to heal as you normally would plus get rid of the poison.

This is in direct contrast to evolutions (in Powered Up) which do allow you to heal and evolve using the same hearts, and they can be used in Tokyo. In this case, the evolve action is independent of the heal and therefore to me is not a healing action.

Edit: I am curious why the original rules would not be in English. I know the publisher is French, but Richard Garfield is American so presumably the rules as he wrote them would start out in English.