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Can Aptimus Marketh use soul tokens to boost the hit and damage rolls the spell he casts? Such as Breath of Corruption?

Yep. He can spend them to boost attack and damage rolls. While casting the spell, it is him doing the attack and damage rolls, and so he can boost those like anything else he does.

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 Blaque wrote:
Yep. He can spend them to boost attack and damage rolls. While casting the spell, it is him doing the attack and damage rolls, and so he can boost those like anything else he does.

And stuff.

This is wrong.

Marketh does not have access to soul tokens. He can direct souls to other eligible models (models that have rules that allow them to have soul tokens). He can convert fury into soul tokens on ancestral guardians.

He himself cannot have souls.

 malfred wrote:

 Blaque wrote:
Yep. He can spend them to boost attack and damage rolls. While casting the spell, it is him doing the attack and damage rolls, and so he can boost those like anything else he does.

And stuff.

This is wrong.

Marketh does not have access to soul tokens. He can direct souls to other eligible models (models that have rules that allow them to have soul tokens). He can convert fury into soul tokens on ancestral guardians.

He himself cannot have souls.

From Marketh's card:

Gatekeeper: This model gains one soul token for each friendly living Faction warrior model destroyed in its command range by a continuous attack effect, an enemy attack, or collateral damage of an enemy attack. This model can have up to five soul tokens at a time. During its activation, this model can spend soul tokens to gain additional attacks or to boost attack or damage rolls at one soul token per attack or boost.

Emphasis on the last sentence. He can spend the soul tokens to boost attack and damage rolls just fine, as per the OP's question. It doesn't not specify what sort of attacks have to be boosted, so can apply to any attack he makes, be it offensvie spells or beating osmething to death with his staff. He actually does absolutely nothing for Ancestral Guardians, that's the Extoller Soulward. She has the same rule however, transferring souls to Ancestral Guardians is another rule that takes no action. Acnestral Guardians themselves do not use souls.

In short, Marketh collects the souls, and can do what he wants with them (mostly boost or upkeep spells). Soulwards also collect souls, and can use them to boost or pass them along to an Ancestral Guardian. Ancestrial Guardians can collect souls, and use them to attack stuff.

Supreme Aptimus Zaal is a different character, and indeed all he does is move souls aorund.

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Whoops, misread. Disregard me.

No worries, let me look over the rule in total and help the OP more in the referencin'.

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Thanks guys! yes Blaque that was my main question because it doesn't specifically say i can use soul tokens for spells. Thanks again guys!