by ras2124
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Well, then you use it before their turn ends.
My point is this:
When you reach 0 you are dead (as stated in the rules). Not at the end of the turn, immediately. Therefore you cannot play cards after you are dead now or 4 turns from now; it doesn't make a difference, you are eliminated from the game.
The reason for that argument is that some people think that there are cards that act like magic undo buttons like a heal evolution or Bamboozled or whatever and that there is some arbitrary amount of time during which you can play these cards to undo some previous event, but there is no order of operations because these periods don't exist.
There is simply an order of events, and event B doesn't rewind time and undo event A. With Bamboozled (referenced previously), the original purchase still happened and there is nothing to suggest it didn't. The card purchased is returned and a new one is bought, but it would not undo the Cyber Bunny's power which gives a point for purchase for instance.
All of the above scenarios were discussed with regards to the original post to suggest that there was some window of opportunity for a player to remove points from the winning player undoing a victory after it was achieved in the same way they argued as using evolutions to come back to life or rewind time. However, none of that follows logically from the cards or the rules and when you start to assert that it does, you have to do things like make up rules about these windows of opportunity that a player has to right to have and when death occurs and all this nonsense whereas if you just play the game as an sequence of events with a win being a win and a death being a death, you don't get any of these contradictions.