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Are they considered spell effects for purposes of Arcane Assassin or Blessed? i.e. You ignore spell effects that boost defense and armor.

As I understand it, animi are just animi, unless a warlock casts it - in which case it is both a spell and an animi.

You are correct. Lets take Tenacity. When the shredder puts it on a model then blessed doesn't ignore the bonuses. If the caster uses it then as it counts as a spell and animus so blessed ignores the bonus.

One quick note about blessed, there are spells like batten down the hatches which give a + and a - to DEF/ARM. Blessed ignores the addition but the subtraction still applies.

Wow, so you have to keep track of who casts what. I really didn't think that would be the answer.

Noisy_Marine wrote:Wow, so you have to keep track of who casts what. I really didn't think that would be the answer.

Well, all effects are supposed to be marked at all times anyway, so distigushing between animi and animi+spell doesn't even manage to attain the level of being trivial.

If you look at the Privateer token set there is a token for animi, spall, and upkeep spell. Very easy to track.

I've never used tokens, Just write it on your card. Its easy.

Then your opponent can't easily work out who's got what at a glance. If your opponents are happy with how you do it that's cool. But the steamroller pack says that you must mark effects by the model/unit. Unsure about the actual rule book.