Rift | Improved Rift

[moomoose]

no.  it is a status.  if it has an icon on the card, it is a status.

the statuses are: poison/aflatoxin, momentum, adrenaline, immaterial, gravity pull; and i believe frozen and delay are also statuses.

[RRQJ]

you know, you can at least address the lobo part.  Both times it's been mentioned you just say that momentum is a status but completely ignore the lobo aspect.  When I posted, I was trying to point out that inconsistency should it indeed be a status.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Momentum (The skill) basically gives the creature the status Momentum when it's played (hence why you can Overdrive a Sapphire Charge without loss of Momentum).

Since the card only affects active abilities, the Momentum ability wouldn't make a difference whether it was negated or not, since the creature already has Momentum (status) from it.

Like others though I'm a bit confused as to how a rift negates abilities. An Animated Owl's Eye could theoretically shoot over a rift.

[moomoose]

"Like others though I'm a bit confused as to how a rift negates abilities. An Animated Owl's Eye could theoretically shoot over a rift."

the rift almost completely detaches the creatures from the players (or elementals if you want to go overboard in the thematics), the player is not able to give the creatures their orders to shoot, eat, grow, pee or poo.  note that this is for all creatures for both players.

lobo itself is inconsistent, so its sketchy to even consider that when trying to determine anything in this capacity, so i am going to ignore it when someone tries to define skills/abilities/statuses based on lobo.