Shield required<BR>Only opposing figures with the WAND attack type can target the wielder with ranged combat attacks. At the beginning of your command phase, any figures in base contact with the wielder are each dealt 1 pushing damage.

Does this mean friendly fire is not allowed, e.g. magic healing & inferno?

thanks...

As long as it's a 2.0 wand type figure and not a 1.0 sword type with magic healing you should be fine to do that.

Hmm, there are two potential ways to look at this:

1) The only figures allowed to target you are those that are opposing AND have wand type.
2) The only opposing figures that can target you are those with wand type.

With #1, that would mean that friendly figures can't target you at all.
With #2, any friendly figure could target you regardless of type.

I think by the strictest literal reading, #1 would be the interpretation. However, and I'm going off memory, I think based on discussions with MK way back when, #2 was the intended interpretation - that it was only meant to restrict opposing units, not friendly units.

I think if I were to make a ruling now and had the say, I would probably go with #2. I can see Agburanar's response as being one way to do it, but I don't think the wording can be parsed to say that friendly wand figures are the only friendly figures that can do it; either "opponent" and "wand" are both requirements to allowing the ranged attacks (#1), or that "wand" is a requirement only for opponent figures.

Considering it's already a little silly powerful, I would prefer 1, but I agree that the spirit is really 2.

I think theme wise it is #1 . I imagine it would be really difficult to shoot /magic heal someone literally Burning with intense heat coming from the shield. I mean it's literally bright and so hot that it deals pushing damage to even the toughest of skins friendly or opposing.

Still I do and will abide by Sigma's ruling.

And we were all wiser thanks to sigma... =)

I guess theme-wise, #1 seems less-likely; enemies can shoot you but not friends? I can understand the logic behind the restriction, but #1 would mean that enemies have an easier time seeing you behind the fire-shield than friends do :)

#2 can indicate that they are used to the glare, or that the wielder knows how to point the shield away long enough for his friends to heal him :)

(Long and short: theme can usually be used to explain pretty much any rules interpretation, depending on how you spin it :))

In any case, I'm not sure if I'd consider this ruling "official" since I can't really talk to the original designers about it anymore to see what the intent was :) I'm just making my best guess based on my prior experience with them :)

Bumping this. :)

I'd probably have to go with my #2 above, if I was forced to give a ruling. But since I don't have contact with the designers, I can't really ever say it's "official".

Basically, I think the intent of the wording for this specific relic is restricting which opposing figures can attack you, and wasn't meant to affect friendly figures.