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Instinct Training

You may exhaust this card when another player plays an action card; cancel that action card.
The Xxcha KingdomTechnology – Biotic

Biotic

You may exhaust this card when another player plays an action card; cancel that action card.

Prerequisites: Biotic

Source: Black Spectrum

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  • Instinct Training may cancel a Sabotage action card.
  • If a player has a second copy of an action card, they may play it if the first was cancelled by Instinct Training.
  • If an action card is cancelled by Instinct Training, no costs are paid.
  • A player playing an action card announces the following before Instinct Training may be played:
    • Any targeted planets, system, units, players, cards, outcomes, and/or other such objects.
    • The value of any variable cost to be paid.
  • Any dice are rolled and any cards are drawn only after all other players have declined to play Instinct Training.
  • If an action card instructs a player to research a technology, that player need not announce what technology they are researching until all other players have declined to play Instinct Training.
  • If an action card is played that will have an effect later, such as a rider, that card may only be cancelled by Instinct Training when it is originally played.
  • If the action card that was cancelled by Instinct Training was to be used to perform a component action, the active player must perform a different action, or pass.
    • If the component action was to be the second action the active player was to perform on their turn, through an effect such as the Fleet Logistics technology, the active player may end their turn without performing a second action and without passing.

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Plagiarize

  • The active player must announce which technology they are gaining before other players decide whether to cancel Plagiarize.

Reveal Prototype

  • Other players must decide whether to cancel Reveal Prototype, before the player playing it announces which technology they are researching.