Unprepared and Mayfair Family Deck

Rules Questions: Doomtown
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If memory serves, back in the AEG Era, if someone had attached a Mayfair Family Deck and hexes to a dude, and that dude was hit by Unprepared, the hexes stuck around. Even if the Mayfair Family Deck was discarded mid-shootout after being Unprepared. (Example: Faithful Hound. These days, Disarm.)

Unprepared on someone with Mayfair Family Deck. | Doomtown: Reloaded

Is this still the case?

Unprepared:

Shootout: Choose a dude. Boot that dude and their attached cards. That dude gets –1 bullets and cannot use their abilities. Their attached cards lose all traits, abilities, and bullet bonuses.

Mayfair Family Deck:

This dude has Huckster 0. If this card leaves this dude, discard all Hexes from this dude.

Rulebook, p. 19:

Spells: All spells have restrictions on who can attach them. Only Hucksters can attach Hexes, only Blessed can attach Miracles, and only Shamans can attach Spirits. Attach the card to one of your unbooted dudes at a location you control (the dude must beable to attach that card). The card sticks with them. A dude can attach any number of spell cards.

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There are a few situations you can have here.

  1. The dude was already a huckster, but likes having a mayfair deck. If that dude is hit by unprepared, they don’t lose the hexes, because the they can still legally have hexes and the mayfair deck text that discards hexes was canceled as well.

  2. The dude wasn’t a huckster and had spells only thanks to mayfair. Unprepared would make them drop the spells because they aren’t a legal carrier of hexes at the time.

Just as extra info

If a faithful hound “eats” a mayfair deck on a huckster OR non-huckster, they will lose all of their hexes as soon as the deck is eaten, because of the game text on the Mayfair Deck.

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For reference:

Attachment Limits
After each play, if a dude has more than the rulebook limit of a specific type of attachment (e.g. an Attire, Horse, or Weapon), or does not meet the requirements to have a certain type of
attachment, the controller of that dude must discard any number of those attachments until legal.

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