I came across this issue while play testing and would like some community input as to a correct ruling.

I have Serifan out and Royal Decree face down in my resource row. On turn three I recruit Granny Goodnes.

Seifan Cosmic:New God Characters you control have Invulnerability

Granny Goodness: Affiliated characters with a cost of 3 or less you control lose their team affiliations and have the Darkseid Elite team affiliation.

Now my question, with the situation I have set up, when can I play Royal Decree? Or can I at all during turn three due to Granny’s effect?

It seems to me that I can play RD as long as I chain it to the recruitment of Granny Goodness. When her recruitment resolves, my RD will resolve first before her power goes into effect. Is my thinking correct? If I try to play RD later in turn three, after I have recruited Granny, due to her effect, I do not have any New God character to use with RD.

Some insight would be appreciated.

Royal Decree
Plot Twist, 3
Choose two team affiliations among characters you control. If you chose New Gods and a different affiliation, draw a card.
Ongoing: Characters you control, as well as cards in your deck, hand, and KO’d pile that have either of the chosen affiliations have both affiliations.

You have to name two affiliations amoung characters you control, so you must already have a Darkseid Elite and a New Gods character in play in order to name them both. Granny Goodness will not count for this because she is still on the chain and is not a characer you control.

If the only character you contorl is Seifan, then there is no way to team up with Seifan and Granney. As soon as Granney is in play, Seifan becomes a Darkseid Elite.

I was getting hit with an effect that would harm me for each face down resource I controlled. I had a Royal Decree in the resource row, but only new gods cards out in play.

Could I have played Royal Decree? The card states, name two team affiliations from characters you control. If you named two different teams, draw a card.

Then it goes onto the ongoing stuff that teams up the two affiliations.

My question is the card doesn't say picking two different team affiliations is part of the cost. You only need that for the drawing a card effect. This card isn't like a normal team up.

I was just wondering, it wuold have been nice to play it.

It is legal to play even if you do not control two different teams.

Same with The Brave and the Bold?

Say they target my f/d BnB with Perry White and I only control a Gotham Knight and haven't teamed up yet...

Can I flip it anyway?

cdaniel: I'm a lil bit confused here; so how does royal decree resolve should I flip it up, when I only have 1 team affiliation in play?

speaking of that, how can this recruit emperor joker in a spidy deck without a arkam inmate, he claims clone saga covers that, explain, lol

No. Brave and the Bold explicitly states that you can only play the effect if you control both a Gotham Knights and a Teen Titans character card.

Royal Decree (as well as the generic team ups: Marvel Team-Up and World's Finest) has no such restriction. You can play it even if you do not control two different teams.

When the non-ongoing portion of the effect resolves and you can't choose two distinct teams among characters you control, the effect will do nothing and you will not draw a card. The ongoing part of the effect will also be rendered useless, since you were not able to choose two distinct affiliations to team up.

You will only be able to recruit Emperor Joker in a Clone Saga deck if you already control another Arkham Inmate character, with or without a Clone Saga in play. Clone Saga simply bestows the Spider-Friends team affiliation to all affiliated cards; these cards still retain their original team affiliations.

707.3 Loyalty is a key word that represents a continuous power that functions in the hand zone. The phrase "Loyalty" means "Recruit this card only if you control a character that shares at least one team affiliation with this card.

With a Spider-Friend in play and Clone Saga, you basically recruited Emperor Joker as a "Spider-Friend" thus fulfilling the loyalty requirement

Ahh, I missed that. I was mistakenly thinking along the lines of how Forced Allegiance works. Thanks.