Rules FAQ

• Up to 3 includes 0. You do not have to choose any cards if you do not want to.

• You do not reveal the cards you are placing under your agenda.

• If you cannot draw as many cards as you placed under your agenda (for instance, due to The High Sparrow), you draw as many as you can. You are still allowed to place the cards under your agenda even if you can foresee that you will not be able to draw as many. However, if you can draw the cards, it is mandatory to do so, you cannot decline.

• Cards are placed in the same area as the cards from The Conclave or Armed to the Teeth agendas. Those agendas can interact with the cards to the extent their text allows. For example, if you use the plot to place an attachment under your agenda, Armed to the Teeth can put that attachment into play the same way it can any of the attachments that have been there from setup.

• Archmaester Marwyn can always interact with the cards you place under your agenda, whether you are playing one of the agendas mentioned above or not. If nothing else in your deck interacts with cards under your agenda, they are essentially removed from the game.

• You cannot resolve the ability if you are playing without an agenda. The plot would simply do nothing.

Rules FAQ

• The choices are made in player order, starting with the first player. Every player makes their choice (or declines to choose anything) with the knowledge of what the players before them have chosen. After all the choices have been made, all the chosen characters are then knelt simultaneously. (See Priority of Simultaneous Resolution.)

• You cannot choose a character that is already kneeling, or a character that cannot be knelt by card effects (for instance, Ygritte).

• If 2 or more characters are tied for the highest STR, none of them get the power.

• If the character with the highest STR cannot gain power (for instance, due to Karhold), nothing else happens.

• If only 1 character is knelt, it will have the highest STR by default, even if its STR is 0.

• The STR comparison is made during the post-then part of the effect. If any of the chosen characters now have a different STR than before they were knelt, their current STR is taken into account.

Rules FAQ

• Bringing Shadowskin Cloak out of shadows after a character has already been bypassed by stealth will not allow that character to be declared as a defender during that challenge.

• The forced interrupt triggers before lasting effects that last "until the end of the phase" expire, and before delayed effects "at the end of the phase" resolve. (See End of Phase Timing Sequence.)

Rules FAQ

• If Alys is already standing (or if she cannot stand for some reason), she is not a valid target for Sigorn's ability. You have to stand her successfully if you want the post-then aspect of the effect to resolve.

Rules FAQ

• Triggering the reaction may cause another character to be attacking or defending alone for the purposes of triggering card abilities (for instance, Lady Sansa's Rose).

• You can remove attached character from the challenge even if it is already standing, or if it cannot stand for some reason (for instance, due to Delena Florent).

• Removing the only attacking or defending character will not change the challenge resolution in any way. The winner of the challenge has already been determined at that point.

• The character is removed from the challenge in the D step of the D.U.C.K. sequence, which means it will no longer be participating once you get to the keywords step. Note that the assault keyword is an exception to this, since any location targeted by assault is knelt even before reactions to winning the challenge could be triggered.