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Effects

If the effect of a card or special ability requires you to perform an action and you cannot, you must perform as much as you can and ignore the rest. For example, if the effect of an event requires you to discard 2 cards from your hand and you only have 1 card in hand, just discard the 1 card and ignore the rest. If the effect of a card or special ability requires you to choose one of two different actions, you must choose an action that you are fully capable of performing (if possible). If you meet all the requirements and pay all the costs for playing a card, you may play that card even if the card will have no effect, except if that action has playing a card from hand or discard pile as part of its effect, in which case you must play that card. This exception applies to all kinds of actions (playing event cards, using special abilities, "when you play" game text, and so on) and all the different ways you can play a card (except playing a card directly from your draw deck).

The source of an effect is the card on which that effect is printed. Even though a card like an event may require a minion to exert to pay its cost, the source of that effect is the event card and not the minion.

Some cards have multiple effects that respond to the same kind of trigger. They count something in play, and when there is more of that thing, more effects happen. For example, the game text of Uglúk looks like this: While you can spot 2 [Is] trackers, Uglúk is strength +3. While you can spot 3 [Is] trackers, Uglúk is damage +1. You don't have to spot 5 trackers to get both benefits. Three trackers is enough to satisfy the first requirement (if you have 3, you can spot 2) and the last requirement (spot 3).