Guardian of the Crystallizer spawn question
Does the Guardian of the Crystallizer spawn exhausted and engaged with me, or spawn disengaged? Thanks.
Posted Jan 3, 2021, 6:19 PM UTC
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I could be wrong, but my interpretation is it would spawn engaged and exhausted, since you did draw and it doesn't specify any other unique rules to the card except "spawns exhausted."
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You have it correct. The Guardian has neither Spawn nor Aloof, so it spawns engaged with whoever drew it. Exhaustion does not imply disengagement. It'll even engage you if you no longer have a Crystallizer in play but somebody else does, as the "Prey (only)" rules don't modify the default spawning instructions (though, of course, if you do disengage the Guardian, it won't reengage you unless you play another Crystallizer).
But the Guardian comes into play exhausted, and since it isn't a "ready, unengaged enemy" it wouldn't get the ability to automatically engage an investigator. So it would just spawn at the location it was drawn in tapped
An enemy without Aloof or Spawn enters play engaged with the investigator that drew it.