| All ice is encountered with its strength lowered by 1. | |
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Ice Carver is an Anarch resource that synergizes with their suite of fixed-strength icebreakers. It has only one ability.
| Constant Ability |
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| Every piece of ice that is encountered by the Runner has its strength lowered by 1 during the encounter |
Related FAQs[]
- FAQ 1.0.18 - regarding Parasite, Ice Carver, Chum, and Enigma: constant strength modifiers are totaled up in order to determine a piece of ice's strength at any given time.
Related Rulings[]
- Parasite + Ice Carver can trash a Tollbooth before its "when encountered" ability resolves, but Parasite + Datasucker cannot.[1]:Ruling
Sources[]
- ↑ Parasite, Ice Carver, Datasucker v. Tollbooth RulingCorp has Tollbooth. There is a Parasite on it with 4 counters, making it currently strength 1
Runner has Ice Carver in play and runs. "All ice is encountered with its strength lowered by 1."
Is the ice trashed before the runner has to lose 3 credits? I was reading somewhere about the active player choosing the order of effects, and if it is the runners turn, could he choose to process Ice Carver effect first, then Parasite, killing it before he has to pay the 3
In a follow up question, lets say that there was only 2 Parasite counters on the ice, but the runner has Datasucker in play with 2 tokens on it. "Hosted virus counter: Rezzed piece of ice currently being encountered has -1 strength until the end of the encounter. " That says "currently being encountered", so I think you would have to lose 3
Datasucker counters could not be used until after Tollbooth's ability. "When encountered" conditional abilities are resolved before there is an opportunity to trigger paid abilities.
from Tollbooth before you get to use it, whereas Ice Carver says that the ice is encountered at strength -1.
The Tollbooth would be trashed before its conditional ability triggered. You have two different constant effects (Ice Carver and Parasite) which combine to knock it off before the Tollbooth can force the Runner to pay credits.