Idle Hands vs Alpha

[Math Mathonwy]

Collodi has put A New Thread Condition on a Rogue Necromancy who is then targeted by Marcus' Alpha. What happens?

Idle Hands: After damaging target non-Leader, it gains this Condition
until the end of its next Activation: "A New Thread: When this model
Activates, the opposing player immediately performs a (1) Action with this
model. This counts as spending one of this model's AP for the Activation."

And Alpha says "This model controls the target during this Activation."

[Adran]

Marcus controls the necromancy for the activation, but Collidi controls it for the First AP of that activation.

[Math Mathonwy]

38 minutes ago, Adran said:

Marcus controls the necromancy for the activation, but Collidi controls it for the First AP of that activation.

That's how we played it but I'm not exactly sure why.

[solkan]

8 hours ago, Math Mathonwy said:

That's how we played it but I'm not exactly sure why.

Because you follow both instructions, and each of the instructions has a different scope.

"This model controls the target for this Activation" is just saying "Instead of its owner, someone else controls the model."  Its otherwise activating normally.

The Condition is saying "Instead of the usual Spend AP step, do this other thing."  So when you get to that part of the Alpha'd Activation, you do what the Condition says to do.

The two rules aren't contradictory, they manipulate different aspects of the Activation.

 

[Math Mathonwy]

Makes sense @solkan - thank you! I choose to believe that that's how my intuitive thought process went