Order of Removng Units

[Wintermute]

Scenario:

After an unexpected play, my opponent and I end up with all of our units face down.

I have 3 face down units and 3 LPs left, he has 1 unit face down and 1 LP left.

I can't recover anyone, and apparently neither can he, as our recovery phase passes with neither of us flipping anyone up.

Now, I have 3LPs and 3 face-down units. He, on the other hand, has 1LP and 1 face-down unit. I am confident that I've won, since I had assumed removal of face-down units was something that switched back and forth. Instead, all three of my units were removed in a row before his one and I lost the match. Imagine my surprise.

I can't imagine this situation would come up often, but just for clarity's sake: how is the order determined in which face-down units are removed and sent to the graveyard? Is it random, like the target of an attack? Or is there another criteria?

[Candi]

Order of closing.

If your three units closed first, then his closed - your units will get removed first.

The only other circumstance is if a board clearing effect closes many units at once on both sides of the field (such as a Tempest). In this case then units are removed in the order corresponding to the number on the field - taking *all* of the units from the caster of the effect first then from the other Iczer.

[Wintermute]

So in the case I describe (He played a Tempest, you guessed it), shouldn't he have lost his unit first?

[Candi]

Yes, the grimoire users units should have died first,
at least according to testing found for these threads:

http://www.alteil.com/forum/index.php?f ... =viewtopic
http://www.alteil.com/forum/index.php?f ... =viewtopic

Curious that they didn't, perhaps we got it backwards...

[Wintermute]

It could also be that I'm remembering the game wrong.

Thank you for the information! That's one less thing I'll be wondering about!

[Forsakensoul]

I could have sworn on a board clearing effect, that it was by the order the units were placed if they all died. So if you placed your 3 units before he placed his 1. then yours would die.

[DWildstar]

I could have sworn on a board clearing effect, that it was by the order the units were placed if they all died. So if you placed your 3 units before he placed his 1. then yours would die.

I did the test with annathered on the board clearing. We had full fields and I used a Tempest. My cards died in order of 1-9 and then hers died in the same order. So the Grimoire card users' cards died first.

[Forsakensoul]

I could have sworn on a board clearing effect, that it was by the order the units were placed if they all died. So if you placed your 3 units before he placed his 1. then yours would die.

I did the test with annathered on the board clearing. We had full fields and I used a Tempest. My cards died in order of 1-9 and then hers died in the same order. So the Grimoire card users' cards died first.

nice to know. Thanks

[jasta85]

I could have sworn on a board clearing effect, that it was by the order the units were placed if they all died. So if you placed your 3 units before he placed his 1. then yours would die.

I did the test with annathered on the board clearing. We had full fields and I used a Tempest. My cards died in order of 1-9 and then hers died in the same order. So the Grimoire card users' cards died first.

you say your cards were removed in order of 1-9, by that do you mean they were removed on order of the rows and columns? or by card level?

[Candi]

I could have sworn on a board clearing effect, that it was by the order the units were placed if they all died. So if you placed your 3 units before he placed his 1. then yours would die.

I did the test with annathered on the board clearing. We had full fields and I used a Tempest. My cards died in order of 1-9 and then hers died in the same order. So the Grimoire card users' cards died first.

you say your cards were removed in order of 1-9, by that do you mean they were removed on order of the rows and columns? or by card level?

Order of rows and columns.