Developer’s Notes
Cut A Promo is secured pool of untyped Crowd Points.
First, you need to replace an Interview to play this card during your Drama phase. That means your Drama roll must produce some sort of interview like In-Ring Interview, Talk Show Interview, or Backstage Interview. When you replace that interview, it’s as if it never happened, and you don’t get any of the Crowd Point rewards from it.
Instead, you bring out the Cut A Promo card and place 10 Crowd Points from the general pool on to the card. Some cards, like Cutlass Dunnigan, increase this pool’s total.
The Crowd Points in your Cut A Promo pool cannot be stolen by players who have Stolen the Show. This is one reason you wouldn’t want to take them all at once.
You can tap-out Cut A Promo once per event in order to draw from the pool of Crowd Points left on the card. You can take as many as you want, but be mindful. Once the Crowd Points are taken from this pool, they become typed, Heat or Pop, and susceptible to theft. Another reason you wouldn’t want to take all the Crowd Points at once would be due to a potential faction change. When you change factions, from Heel to Face or vice versa, you lose all the Crowd Points keyed to that faction. Of course, you could spend 2 Crowd Points to remove one of the opposing Crowd Points from your Turn Tracker.
As an example, let’s say you’re a Heel and you’ve got 2 Pop on your Face Turn Tracker on your play mat. You have Cut A Promo in play with 6 Crowd Points remaining on it. You tap-out Cut A Promo and take all 6 remaining Crowd Points, which now become Heat. Then, one of your friendly players drops a Face Turn Angle on you. You would now need to spend 6 Heat to stave off the Face Turn. There are certain situations where you would just let this happen, but if you have any faction-specific cards or if you like a particular faction for whatever reason, you might avoid faction changes.
If you do happen to change factions while you still have Cut A Promo in play with Crowd Points on it, the card can still be tapped-out, but the Crowd Points you gain from it will match your faction. So, those Crowd Points will survive a faction change.
You can never add Crowd Points to Cut A Promo beyond the initial time it’s played.
Once all the Crowd Points have been removed from Cut A Promo, the card is removed from the game and not placed in the Ring discard pile.