Hello everyone and I really want to share a battle I had today against @neoxian with you guys. I thought it was very instructive and I learned some new concepts about both Trample and Camouflage ability.
Let's start with a quick reminder of what those abilities actually do.
Trample: When a Monster with Trample hits and kills its target, it will perform another attack on the next Monster on the enemy Team.
Camouflage: This Monster cannot be targeted for attacks unless it's in the first position.
The Battle
The link to the match is here, and it is a pretty common battle with a Super Sneak rule set, which means that every melee monster will have the Sneak ability. That allows all melee creatures to attack even the ones that usually only do so in the first position. Undead Rexx is a card that I like very much, and he has very high damage, so I choose him as one of my damage dealers for this one.
Now is where it gets interesting, after Rexx kills his Dark Ha'on I was expecting him to perform another attack because of Trample.
That did not happen, and after I thought about it for a second it made a lot of sense. Trample always performs the second attack on the next creature, but if you're killing the last creature...there's simply NOTHING NEXT. Ok, that's not incredibly enough, but Trample had another little surprise to show me this match.
After the two monsters in the back of my opponent were already dead, the next target for my Rexx was the Phantom Soldier because he needed to ignore the Magi Necrosi that had Camouflage. After Rexx kills the Phantom Soldier I wasn't expecting anything else to happen.
But Rexx actually attacked Magi Necrosi in spite of Camouflage. Rexx didn't really care, he went for it!
So I thought that was a very nice interaction between the Trample and Camouflage abilities. Although Camouflage monsters shouldn't be allowed to be targeted when not in the first position, Trample activated and the Camouflage monster was the next one in line.
To be honest in this specific case one of the abilities would have to work over the other, and Trample was the winner between the two.
Is this even Useful to know?
We can debate that for eternity, but it is something that you can always have in the back of your mind and If Neoxian had played Magi Necrosi in his third position instead of his 4th that would have saved the little mage. It is definitely something that you can use and people can use against you in specific matches with specific rule sets.
Anyway, it was a very shocking and interesting interaction and I wanted to share that with you guys. Hopefully that was not boring and I added some value to you.
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