Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Rules Questions => Topic started by: ben_king on September 21, 2015, 09:19:53 pm
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Beggar is the only card that reacts to attack that doesn't say reveal or discard "from your hand."
Suppose that you have set aside Beggar with Prince and then your opponent plays an attack. Can you discard Beggar from its set-aside limbo state and gain the two silvers?
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No, the FAQ makes it clear the reaction requires you to discard it from hand.
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No, the FAQ makes it clear the reaction requires you to discard it from hand.
Thanks for the quick response!
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In general, "discard" without other specification always means from your hand, in the same way "gain" means to your discard pile.
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In general, "discard" without other specification always means from your hand, in the same way "gain" means to your discard pile.
This is wrong. Tunnel uses the word "discard" without any locational specification, but it means from anywhere. Same wording as Beggar.
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In general, "discard" without other specification always means from your hand, in the same way "gain" means to your discard pile.
This is wrong. Tunnel uses the word "discard" without any locational specification, but it means from anywhere. Same wording as Beggar.
He was talking about when you are instructed to discard something. Tunnel's wording is a different use of "discard"; it's not an instruction.
Temporum does the same thing. If you are instructed to discard a card, it automatically means "from hand" unless it specifies otherwise. But there's also a card that reacts to things being discarded, and it reacts no matter where the things are discarded from.
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In general, "discard" without other specification always means from your hand, in the same way "gain" means to your discard pile.
This is wrong. Tunnel uses the word "discard" without any locational specification, but it means from anywhere. Same wording as Beggar.
Okay, and Inn uses the word "gain" without any locational specification, but it means from anywhere as well. (That is to say, if you gain Inn from the trash via Graverobber, or from the Black Market deck, you still shuffle Action cards into your deck.)
So to specify: an instruction to discard something without other specification means from your hand, in the same way an instruction to gain something means to your discard pile. "When you gain" and "when you discard" don't have those interpretations.
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In general, "discard" without other specification always means from your hand, in the same way "gain" means to your discard pile.
This is wrong. Tunnel uses the word "discard" without any locational specification, but it means from anywhere. Same wording as Beggar.
He was talking about when you are instructed to discard something. Tunnel's wording is a different use of "discard"; it's not an instruction.
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For serious, though, when the conversation at hand is about words and semantics and exact meanings, "Oh you know what I actually meant" isn't something you need to overlook and move on from, it's something you need to correct and have exactly right.