Arcane Compliance (Blue)

When you play Arcane Compliance, you must target an action card that is waiting to resolve on the stack. When Arcane Compliance resolves, a continuous effect is generated that disallows effects from increasing arcane damage that action card would deal. Examples of effects that increase arcane damage dealt would be those cards that generate card-based buff effects (e.g. Crucible of Aetherweave) or event-based buff effects (e.g. Amp).

If the targeted action card generates a continuous triggered effect (e.g. Arc Lightning), effects will not increase the arcane damage generated from that continuous triggered effect as the triggered effect’s source was the action card.

While Arcane Compliance’s continuous effect is active, if an arcane damage event would be modified by an event-based buff effect (e.g. Amp), the buff effect would still apply to the arcane damage event; however, the amount of arcane damage dealt would remain the same as if it were unbuffed. The event-based buff effect would be used up and would not apply to any future events that deal arcane damage.

While Arcane Compliance’s continuous effect is active, if a card that deals arcane damage would be modified by a card-based buff effect (e.g. Absorb in Aether, etc.), the buff effect would still apply to the card; however, the amount of arcane damage it deals would remain the same as if it were unbuffed. The card-based buff effect would be used up and would not apply to any future cards played that deal arcane damage.

For actions cards that would explicitly deal “X arcane damage”, the value of X is not affected by Arcane Compliance, but any additional effects that would increase X would be stopped.