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jamesatzephyr wrote:

hardyrange wrote:The Capuchin has this special ability: "If The Capuchin is burned move him to your uncontrolled region and get 3 transfers during your next influence phase."

Would this work if the Capuchin is being burned not from play, but from the uncontrolled region?

By default(*), special abilities - even passive special abilities - only function while vampires are in play. (Though they don't have to be ready, unless card text says otherwise.)

For example, Angelo's "look like any circle" special ability doesn't apply when he's not in play.
[LSJ 20050926]

LSJ wrote:> LSJ, when superior Unwholesome Bond is played, can it then "see" an
> uncontrolled Angelo as a member of any Blood Brother circle even though
> his special text is out of play, in more or less the same way that it
> can "see" an uncontrolled Torrance or Chicago Blood Brother's circle
> even though its circle text is out of play?

No. It can see the clan, capacity, Disciplines, sect, and
even the text of Angelo (or any other vampire), but that doesn't
mean Angelo's special applies when he's not in play. It sees Angelo's
circle as the circle it is, not the circle his special would allow
him to mimic.

(*) A special ability could be worded to function when out-of-play, by the Golden Rule of Cards.

Murat wrote:...
wäre auch zu schön gewesen ihn mit Malgorzathas Fähigkeit zu burnen und dann seinen Special nutzen zu können