Rules FAQ

• Tywin's Whisperer can react to any ability that specifically uses the phrase "return to hand". This includes abilities that would return a character to hand from an out-of-play area, such as "On a Misty Morn" or Summer (Core). It does not include characters returning to hand due to Red Priest leaving play.

• If Tywin's Whisperer is in play when The First Snow of Winter is resolved, you can immediately put it into play again (assuming a character with printed cost 2 or lower was returned to an opponent's hand). Same thing with any card ability that returns Tywin's Whisperer and an opponent's character to hand at the same time (for instance, Tywin's Stratagem).

• If an opponent returns a character you own to "their hand", you can trigger the reaction even though the character is physically returned to your hand instead. On the other hand, if you return a character an opponent owns to "your hand", you cannot trigger the reaction even though it is physically returned to an opponent's hand. (See Ownership and Control.)

• You cannot trigger the reaction while Barring the Gates or The King in the North are revealed, but you can trigger it while Fortified Position is revealed.

• Each reaction can only be initiated once when its triggering condition occurs. If Tywin's Whisperer is canceled, you cannot trigger it again for the same character being returned to hand. If you have multiple copies of Tywin's Whisperer in hand and one is canceled, you can trigger the other one, but you have to demonstrate that it is a different copy of the card. On the other hand, if multiple triggering conditions occur at the same time (for instance, multiple characters returning to hand for The First Snow of Winter), you can trigger the same copy of Tywin's Whisperer multiple times.