ErrataHall of Heroes (rules 1.5)2023-08-24

75 – The card Inhibitor Collar from Next Evolution attaches to your identity has an ability which says…

Question

75 – The card Inhibitor Collar from Next Evolution attaches to your identity has an ability which says ‘choose to either exhaust a charater ”you” control or take 3 damage…’ and the reminder text ‘any player can do this’. Can any player do this? My understanding is that ‘you’ refers to the player the attachment is attached to but the reminder text seems counter to this. Is it a case that any player can take the damage but only the player with the attachement can an exhast as ally they control since that is the part of the anbility which references you?
Or can any player activate either part of the ability? I’m also confused by the attachment rules in general as they seem to contradict. In the RRG under attachement it says ‘When an ability on an attachment attached to a player card uses the word “you” or “your,” it refers to the attached player card’s controller. If that ability is a triggered ability, only the attached player card’s controller can trigger it.’ This seems to imply that ‘your’ and ‘you’ on an attachment always refers to the same player, so if an attachement attaches to ‘your’ identity only the player who controls that identity can trigger any abilites which instruct ‘you’ to do something. My understanding is that this would mean that only the player who has Inhibitor Collar attached to their identy could trigger the abilty on Inhibitor Collar since the card attaches to ‘your’ identitiy and uses the word ‘you in the ability.
However, any player could trigger the abilities on The Poison or Obedience Potion because although they attach to ‘your identity’ they don’t refer to ‘you’ in the ability. But then under ability section the RRG says: ‘Only the player who controls a player card with an attachment that uses the word “you” or “your” can trigger abilities or pay costs on that attachment.’ This statement seems much broader and seems to say that only the player who has The Poison, Obendience Potion or Inhibitor Collar attached to their identiy can trigger the action on those cards, because they attach to ‘your’ identity and doesn’t seem to care if ‘you’ is referenced in the action or not.

Erratum

Inhibitor Collar was designed and printed before the Rules Reference v1.5 update, and before we determined this direction that we wanted for attachments. We are going to apply the same ruling to Inhibitor Collar that we did for The Poison and Obedience Potion: “Any player can do this” should be treated as rules text, not reminder text. With this, the cards function exactly as designed and intended, without completely undoing the updated rules in v1.5. You can think of “Any player can do this” as applying The Golden Rule, where the text of the card takes precedence over the written rule. (Also note, we are likely to issue official errata for the three attachments in a future update.)

— Alex