Dependent Keywords During Resolution

Level N uses the current XP of the player controlling that card. XP is a separate experience total, not your victory points. Gaining enough XP turns on the governed text immediately; spending below the threshold turns it off. Other printed abilities are not switched off merely because Level fails.

Gustwalker has Hunt 2 and Level 3 text giving +1 Might and Ganking, permission to make a Standard Move between battlefields. Suppose you control it with 1 XP. Its Hunt resolves and gives you 2 XP: 1 → 3. The Level text becomes active at that point. If you later spend 1 XP, 3 → 2, its Level bonus and Ganking become inactive again. XP is personal even when your team shares points.

Resolve instructions in order, updating conditions as each action happens. There is no permission to insert an ordinary action between instructions merely because an ability has become available. Triggered abilities, which happen when a specified event occurs, can be created while another effect is resolving. They wait for the appropriate processing afterwards.

Illustrative sequence - You have 2 XP and a Level 3 passive bonus. An effect instructs you to gain 1 XP, then spend 1 XP, then examine the unit’s Might. Gain: 2 → 3, so the bonus applies. Spend: 3 → 2, so it stops applying. The final instruction uses the unit without that bonus. Do not freeze its Level state for the whole resolution.

A dependent triggered ability must be active when its event is evaluated. If it becomes active at the same moment its trigger condition is fulfilled, it can trigger. Gaining the condition later does not replay an earlier event. All dependent conditions on that ability must be true.

Compare two orders - With 2 XP, a Level 3 ability watching you Buff a unit is inactive. If an effect Buffs the unit first and gains 1 XP afterwards, that earlier Buff does not trigger the ability. If it gains 1 XP first and then Buffs the unit, the ability is active for that Buff and can trigger. A simultaneous activation-and-trigger event is eligible too, when the event itself supports both changes.

Changing the controller changes whose XP is checked. A Level 3 card can lose its bonus when it moves from a player with 5 XP to a player with 1 XP, without either player gaining or spending XP. A teammate’s XP is not added to the new controller’s total.

An activated dependent ability, one you choose to use by paying its cost, already put on the Chain as a pending item continues through the play procedure even if its dependent condition becomes false. Pending means it is waiting for the remaining choices, costs and legality checks needed to finalize it. That does not authorize a new activation of the now-inactive text. An ability with Level and Legion also needs both conditions; enough XP cannot substitute for another card being finalized that turn.