Rule Questions after reading comprehensive Rules

[TeGuRoE]

I. I thought there was a max of four copies of a card per deck besides party clowns. What is meant by the following:

103.2c There is no restriction on the number of copies of a card that can be included. It is limited only by your card pool.

II. Will dwarvish grimalkin's ability fire once or twice if "a player draws two cards" from an ability.

306.3 Cards are always drawn as a group. For example, if a card says “draw 2 cards” then you put them into your hand at the same time, instead of 2 separate “draw a card” events.

III. The following seems to contradict itself, is one allowed to fail a search or not?

312 Search
312.1 If a deck is searched, its owner must shuffle it afterwards.
312.2 You are allowed to fail in finding any card that must match specific search criteria. You may choose to fail even if there are valid cards available to find.
Example – If a card says “search your deck for an item” then you can fail to find it either because the deck contains no items or because you choose to fail. However, if a card says “search your deck for a card” you must find a card (unless the deck contains no cards).

IV. This seems to contradict another rule in the shortened rules pamphlet. "If there are no more blocking characters left to assign damage to the attacking characters assign their damage to the target instead."

608.2 If there is nothing left for a character to assign its battle damage to, the character doesn’t actually do anything but it is still considered to have assigned its battle damage for the purposes of ending the resolution loop.
Example – An attacking party featuring characters with many different speeds is targeting a location. If the first wave of characters destroys the location, the remaining characters don’t assign any damage. However, they are considered to have assigned damage for the purposes of ending the battle (i.e. the battle resolution doesn’t just infinitely repeat).

[Ken Pilcher]

103.2 Limited decks must meet the following criteria:
103.2c There is no restriction on the number of copies of a card that can be included. It is limited only by your card pool.

Your correct. Maximum of 4 copies. The rule you cited is for LIMITED (draft and sealed) play. In limited you can have as many copies in you deck that are available in your card pool.

Grimalkin draws up to 3 times.

You ARE able to "Fail to find" even if you have the card in your deck, you do NOT have to "find" it.


If there are no more blocking Characters then the next speed level assigns damage to the original attack (Location or Faction)

if the location is no longer in play then the damage is still considered to have assigned its battle damage for the purposes of ending the resolution loop.

Again, if there are blockers still in the defending party then all of that speeds damage must be assigned to the blockers, if the blockers are removed from combat before damage is assigned, then the damage is assigned to the original target (faction, location), and if that target happened to be a location, and that location is no longer there, then the damage is considered assigned so that the loop ends.

[Kettil Brochmann]

II. The reason why Dwarvish Grimalkin draws up to three times is because it's three separate instances of drawing one card. The rule is there to make sure that you draw 3 cards at the same time if a card would say "draw 3 cards" or 5 cards at the same time if a card said "draw 5 cards". With Grimalkin, it's basically the same as playing three cards that says "draw a card".

III. You may only fail to find a card if you are instructed to search for a specific type of card. Take Servile Centipede for example. "You may search your deck for a tactic". You may search your deck for a tactic, but you may also fail to find one. Either by choosing to fail or by not having any tactics left in your deck. If you are instructed to search for a card, like with Luteoderm Prototype, there is no way for you to fail to find one unless you have no cards in your deck. So a search like that you may NOT fail.

[TeGuRoE]

So any time you draw x number of cards it will trigger a draw card event. If x was 5 then you 'drew' once. X has to be 1 in 5 events for you to fire 5 draw card triggers. So it works like tax attorney does with dmg done to your faction? where you can get attacked 3 times by 1dmg chars and take no dmg. I know this is kind of segwaying into a separate question but I'm just trying to get a better feel for the rules. If three 1/1/3 characters attack you in a party is this one instance of 3 dmg points assigned and tax attorney would only reduce one point but if you were attacked by a 1/1/2, 1/1/3, and a 1/1/4 then tax attorney could prevent all of them because they are in separate assignment/application cycles and the first case is all in one cycle?

[Zwidar]

If the 3 characters are all speed 3, tax attorny would only reduce the damage by 1. You would take 2 damage.
608.1f Damage Infliction – All assigned battle damage is inflicted simultaneously. If more than one character inflicts damage to the same thing during this step, the sum of the damage is inflicted as a single amount.

If the 3 characters are all different speeds. Each speed level assigns it's damage separately, so speed 4 combat step would assign 1 damage, tax attorney reduces it to 0. Then you have another combat resolution step for speed 3, assigning 1 damage and tax attorney reducing that to 0. same for speed 2.

[MintMMs]

When trying to play a Prehensile Pirate, which lists as it's Cost as Remove 4 cards from the discard pile from the game, that due to Rule 401.2 I can't play this card until I first build up 4 cards in my discard pile. Am I correct?

[ONEone]

correct, if it is listed as a cost then you cannot play the card unless you meet that cost. just like you couldn't play the card if you couldn't pay the numeric cost. if it said "remove up to 4 cards from the discard pile" then you could play it even if you had zero cards in the discard pile.