Alien Quarter Market

[Frewfrux]

Alien Quarter Market does not specify a non-human you control. Does that mean you can one of your opponent's non-human 's, or is this implied?

[Horizon Jeff]

a Non-Human is a cost as it comes immediately before the colon (rulebook, page 4). You can only pay costs with cards you control (pages 2 and 4).

To a certain extent though, costs are one area we're going to look to clarify/improve in the rulebook, as a few concepts are either assumed the player base will know, or could be explained better.

One instance of the former is that costs are also self-referential. Take Liach, T'zen and Giiar for instance. Her ability is:

- Jettison: Change the target of an or cancel an .

We don't actually say anywhere that "Jettison" refers to the card itself. The self-referential default in absence of other identified cards is a common practice, but not one we should have assumed our player base would know.

Alien Quarter Market falls under this as well. It's costs are:

, non-Human :

So the first requires you to Alien Quarter Market.

[SolomanMedici]

Does that mean you can one of your opponent's non-human 's?

Hey Frewfrux, hands off my aliens! They are the only friends I've got.

[Frewfrux]

Hey Frewfrux, hands off my aliens! They are the only friends I've got.

Bah!

"If ye can’t trust a pirate, ye damn well can’t trust a merchant either!"

[Susurrus]

That's a certainty...