sect allegiance/anarchness when playing cards "as a vampir..

Hey guys,

Found lots of related stuff, but not the actual answer (If I missed it,
apologies in advance) to these questions:

When/while an ally plays a card "as a vampire", to which sect does
(s)he belong?

Example: imagine Bima with Serpentis.

Can or can Bima not play eg. Reformation?
Techincally, it's a card requiring the basic versin of the discipline
on Bima, so from Bima's point of view I'd say "yes, it's a card
requiring a the correct disciplien, so accoriding to Bima's card text,
it's ok"

On the other hand, from Reformation's point of view, I'd imagine this
checks the requirement of being an anarch as well, before deciding
whether or not the acting minion can play it..
(then again, at that point in time I'd say Bima isn't even considered a
vampire for purposes of playing this card yet,as at that point in time
he's not playing the card yet)


My money's on "no, Bima cannot play it, as the Anarch-requirement for
Reformation is not met", but ..hell, you get the point..

Thanks for removing my doubts, and probably desillusioning me, while
smasing all my hopes of making a funky deck idea stick, with which I
was so obviously hoping to make the EC in Italy tremble this year
)

/jo

James Coupe wrote:
> Wolflord <jo.herroelen.DeleteThis@sca.com> writes:
> >When/while an ally plays a card "as a vampire", to which sect does
> >(s)he belong?
>
> Being treated as a vampire but having no clan, they're treated as a
> vampire with no clan would be - that is, they'd be Independent.

Correct.

> >Example: imagine Bima with Serpentis.
> >
> >Can or can Bima not play eg. Reformation?
> >Techincally, it's a card requiring the basic versin of the discipline
> >on Bima, so from Bima's point of view I'd say "yes, it's a card
> >requiring a the correct disciplien, so accoriding to Bima's card text,
> >it's ok"
>
> Yes, he/she/it can play it as though she had Serpentis. However, that
> doesn't allow her to override needing to be an Anarch. Since she
> doesn't meet that, she can't play it.
>
> "You can play this as if you had...." type texts (see also Inscription,
> for example) allow you to meet that one particular requirement. They
> absolutely don't override all other requirements.

Correct.