Valeria Batten and the Wretched

Rules Questions: Doomtown
1

Can Valeria Batten (either version) invent the Wretched? The first sentence in the Wretched’s trait (emphasis added below) would indicate that she cannot since she is not a Mad Scientist, but using her Huckster skill as if she were one. I just wanted official clarification.

Valeria Batten
Dude • Stud 0 • Influence 1 • Cost 4 • Upkeep 0
Huckster 1
Valeria can invent Mystical gadgets using her Huckster skill (as if it were Mad Scientist).

The Wretched
Dude • Stud 4 • Influence 0 • Cost 2 • Upkeep 1
Abomination • Mystical • Non-Unique • Gadget • Difficulty 9
The Wretched must be invented by a Mad Scientist. It enters play at the Mad Scientist’s location (but does not attach).

After The Wretched enters play, ace a dude you own and control in the same location. The inventing Mad Scientist gains 2 bounty (if still in play).

2

Yes she can invent it and acts as a Mad Scientist for all purposes of the card.

The cost of inventing a Gadget is as follows:

  1. Boot your Mad Scientist,
  2. Pay the Gadget’s ghost rock cost,
  3. Then perform a skill test using the dude’s Mad Scientist skill rating.

Valeria must treat herself as a Mad Scientist or she can’t ever perform step 1), ergo she must be treated as a Mad Scientist for The Wretched’s.

That first line of The Wretched is now redundant because rules to invent Gadget Dudes didn’t exist at the time the card was printed.