Rules FAQ

• The gold cost of the event and the additional cost of giving the opponent 1 gold are paid simultaneously. The gold cost can be reduced by cards like Paxter Redwyne (Core) or Fealty, but the additional cost always requires you to have 1 gold that can be given to the opponent.

• You can use the 1 gold the opponent gives you to play The Hand's Judgment and cancel Growing Influence.

• You can react to the costs of Growing Influence with Maester Harmune.

• Any card that allows you to "spend" gold as if it were in your gold pool (like The Iron Bank) can be used to give an opponent gold as well. (See Spending Gold.)

Rules FAQ

• If the defending player chooses to kill 2 characters, those characters cannot be saved.

• The interrupt window to play cards like The Hand's Judgment comes before the option to kill 2 characters.

• If the attacking player controls a participating character with Conspirator's Blade, this event cannot be canceled by killing 2 characters.

Rules FAQ

• The cost reduction is self-referential and only works while War Elephants is in hand. A copy of War Elephants in play will not reduce the cost to ambush another copy of War Elephants from hand.

• Fortified Position only affects characters in play, so it will not blank the text that prevents War Elephants from being marshaled while it is in your hand. It will not blank the ambush or the cost reduction either.

• The text of War Elephants still prevents you from marshaling it in a "non-conventional" way, such as Night Gathers..., The Watch Needs Good Men, or Maester Gormon.

Rules FAQ

• A replacement effect is an effect (usually an interrupt) that replaces the resolution of a triggering condition with a different means of resolving that same triggering condition, but in such a manner that the triggering condition is still considered to occur. The word "instead" is frequently indicative of a such an effect. After all interrupts to the triggering condition have resolved and it is time to resolve the triggering condition itself, the replacement effect resolves instead. If multiple replacement effects are initiated against the same triggering condition, the most recent replacement effect is the one that is used for the resolution of the triggering condition. (See Replacement Effects.)

• If the event is canceled, normal claim is applied for that challenge. The character still returns to hand. The character also returns to hand if another claim replacement effect is used after this one. You can play multiple copies of this event in the same challenge, but you will also need multiple characters that can be returned to hand to successfully pay the cost each time.

• In a Melee game, the Master of Whispers title will let you apply or claim against all of your opponents if you play this event during an challenge.

Rules FAQ

• Howland will reduce the cost of events as well.

• If Howland enters play after you have already brought a card out of shadows that round, he will "remember" that and not reduce the cost of the next one.

• If you bring a card out of shadows without paying its shadow cost (for instance, Smallfolk Mob), it will count as the first card you bring out of shadows and "waste" Howland's cost reduction.