Rules FAQ

• You can trigger Pycelle when a card is discarded from hand for any reason. This includes costs (like Gold Mine), effects (like Gunthor Son of Gurn), claim, and reserve.

• You know which card is being discarded from hand before triggering Pycelle. The card then becomes hidden information again when it is placed facedown under a player's agenda. Players are not forced the maintain the order of facedown cards under their agenda, so their opponents cannot track whether a particular card is still there (for example, after cards have been switched by The Conclave agenda).

• Pycelle shares the interrupt window with Missandei, Ser Jorah Mormont (LMHR) and Ser Meryn Trant. They are all replacement effects that can be triggered one after another, so whichever is triggered last prevails.

• You can still trigger cards like Cersei Lannister (LoCR) or Tywin's Stratagem after triggering Pycelle, because the card is still considered to have been discarded from hand. However, cards like The Great Pyramid or The Gold Price can no longer be used. They implicitly work with the discard pile only, so they will not be able to find the card after Pycelle has "intercepted" it. Heads on Spikes will also not be able to put the character in the dead pile, but you still get the 2 power. (See Card Abilities & Out-of-Play Areas.)

• You can trigger Pycelle on your own cards.

• Cards under a player's agenda are not considered to be in play. They are essentially removed from the game permanently, unless that player is playing The Conclave or Archmaester Marwyn.

• If Drowned God Fanatic is being discarded from hand as the cost of its ability and you use Pycelle's interrupt on it, that same copy of Drowned God Fanatic cannot be used again to cancel Pycelle's ability. (This ruling is provisional and should be officially confirmed in an upcoming FAQ update.)

Rules FAQ

• During an challenge, the reaction of Nightfall triggers before claim.

• Players check reserve in player order, one after another. All the cards a single player discards for reserve are discarded simultaneously.

• You can trigger Sea Song or Three-Finger Hobb as a reaction to Nightfall.

Rules FAQ

• The chosen character is not removed from the challenge, it is only prevented from contributing its STR.

• Any card ability that explicitly says a character does not contribute its STR to a challenge takes precedence over any card ability or framework effect that says the opposite. (See Characters contributing their STR.)

Rules FAQ

• If the text box of Martial Law is blanked at any point (for instance, by Brother's Robes), it will become illegally attached and will get discarded. This happens because it loses the play permission of being allowed to be attached to a location rather than a character. On the other hand, assaulting (or otherwise blanking) attached location will not cause Martial Law to become illegally attached.

• The "cannot stand" applies to the standing phase as well as any card abilities that could stand attached location (for instance, Ser Eldon Estermont).

• Martial Law does not prevent a standing location from kneeling.

• In a Melee game, attached location can stand if its controller has won a challenge against any opponent. It does not have to be against the player who controls Martial Law.

• If you win a challenge, you can immediately use cards like Harry the Heir or Legacy of the Watch to stand the location during that same challenge.

Rules FAQ

• You have to control both the facedown card and the card to which it is attached.

• Facedown cards you can discard include those attached to Valyrian's Crew or Lady Marya, as well as those attached to Fool characters if you are playing A Mummer's Farce.