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.

Rules FAQ

• A character is considered to have a challenge icon or to not have that icon. A single character that has and/or is gaining the same challenge icon from multiple sources functions as if it has one instance of that icon. (See Challenge Icons.)

• The characters do not need to have the corresponding challenge icon. They can participate in any challenge type, as long as they have 1 or fewer challenge icons.

• Characters are not declared as defenders with this ability, so cards like Guard Duty cannot be used.