Ok, lets all read Quentin Carnival.

Does this card bring equipment directly into play, thus getting around equipping restrictions?

I'm not quite sure, I haven't thought about it yet. I'm curious, though, as to which equipping restrictions you have in mind.

-Bob


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Okay, I'm dumb. I forgot the name of the thread.

Short answer: no.

Long answer with a quote from the CR: Lemme get back to you.

Well, here I am. Happy to see me?

Unless a card specifically instructs to ignore equipment restrictions you must follow them. This also applies to transferring equipment as well. So you can't put use Wayne enterprises to throw the Medallion of Power onto Alicia Masters.

Equipment generally functions like a reusable plot twist of less power without the element of surprise. Quentin Carnival lets you put the surprise into equipment. If you're really into wierd combos: Steal an opponents ELBET with Satanus, Press the Attack on Thing and put some guns on him with Carnival so he can shoot up Hulk.

It doesn't get around equipping restrictions, but it does get around uniqueness which is a recruiting restriction. I don't know if that really makes a difference with the current card pool, though. I don't think there are any unique 0-cost equipment.

-Bob

What if I teamed up MarvelKnights with the Revenge Squad and I have Punisher out and another character with Braniac's Ship. Can I tack on another Ship to Punisher for his effect or is the uniqueness rule still in play?

If you're talking about Punisher: Jury, then, yes, you can. Uniqueness is only checked upon recruitment.

-Bob

Punisher WILL do some punishing. There are so many cool things you can do with him. He would be great in a MK/FF deck too.

The initial thought was the Decoy Program actually.

So 'bring into play' does not recruit. But wether you recruit OR 'put into play' the same restrictions apply? That is counter intuitive to the situation with Uniqueness and Loyalty when applied to effects that bring characters into play then.

The reason for the difference between equiping restrictions and recruiting restrictions (such as Loyalty and Uniqness) is the equipment cards read (at least, to my knowledge without checking the OCR):

"EQUIP only to X" where X is the restriction (army Doom character, in the case of Decoy Program).

Ah... now that makes much more sense. This has been a very helpful discussion, and the wording on those equipment cards does indeed make this a bit clearer.