Latverian Embassy
Location
Threshold 2
Card Text: When you flip Latverian Embassy, discard a card from your hand unless you control Dr. Doom.

Each of your opponents may not play a plot twist with the same name as a plot twist in his resource row.

MSM-131
Rare

What if the plot twist in your resource row is facedown? Can I play a plot twist from my hand as the same one that is face down in my resource row?

Or am I gonna have to show my opponent all my facedown resources because to play anything I can't have it in my resource row?

I would hope it is the first one.

A face-down Plot Twist is just a Resource. It isn't a Plot Twist until it is face up.

Face-down resources do not have names nor are they public information.

Latverian Embassy only considers face-up plot twists in your resource row.

Hmm, with latverian embassy in play, can my opponent play an acrobatic dodge from the resource row, then add another acrobatic dodge from his resource row into the chain?

Am not quite sure if there's a difference in timing between playing a plot twist in the resource row and revealing the plot twist to play it.

An in responce chain is the only time after flopping(the embassy) you would be able(assuming it isn't destroyed) to duplicate a resource row plot twist.

You'd have to play the one in your hand, and then the one in your resource row. The other way around wouldn't work.

No, because the second couldn't be played (announced) since there was one face-up in your resource row.

lemme see if i got this right....

the act of flipping over an acrobatic dodge from your resource row doesn't go into the chain?

The Acrobatic Dodge itself goes on the chain. Playing an effect does not use the chain, but results in the effect being put on the chain. Playing (flipping) a plot twist consists of determining/announcing targets, paying costs, etc. Then the effect is on the chain. You cannot "respond" in the middle of playing the first Acrobatic Dodge because once you begin playing it, you must finish playing it (not the same as the effect resolving) before it is on the chain and you get priority to announce another effect.

yeah, but wouldnt Latverian Embassy be an effect that has to go on the chain as well?

Latverian Embassy has a continuous power.

Continuous powers do not use the chain.

Instead, they are in effect as soon as the object with the power comes into play.

Conversely, the power ceases to function the moment that object leaves play.

Latverian Embassy prevents other players from playing duplicate plot twists from their resource row immediately since the modifier is the result of a continuous power.

Thanks grimmer and zaxx :)

Gotta love vsrealms. This is the only place I know where people can explain confusing things quite clearly.