Reply: Mage Knight Board Game:: Rules:: Re: Official Rules FAQ Thread

by tumorous

syzygia wrote:

PaulGrogan wrote:

captainawesome55 wrote:

6. with the tactic where i can search for any card in the deep deck and take it to your hand, may you take a wound card if it is usefull for you?

6. Good question, not sure that has been asked before. The subject of wounds being cards or not has been discussed a number of times. Walkthrough - page 4: "Whenever any text refers to “any” or “a” card, it is referring to Action, Spell or Artifact cards, but never a Wound card unless stated explicitly. Thus, the term “discard a card” means discard any Deed card except for a Wound card."
Preparation: When you take this Tactic, search your deck for any one card and put it in your hand, then shuffle your deck.
So, I don't think you can.

Is that an official answer? I thought wounds were cards in all effects (hand size, planning, etc.) except when discarding, throwing away or playing them sideways.

Paul's response here seems wrong. It's inconsistent with the similar situations that you identify (e.g., hand size always includes Wounds). The walkthrough provides the aforementioned shortcut so that players will remember that they don't get to use Wounds as freely as other cards. But the walkthrough is not the rulebook, and this is what the rulebook has to say about when Wounds are not-so-useful (p. 4):

6. Some card effects order you to pay extra mana of some color, 
      or to discard (put to your discard pile) or throw away (remove 
      from the game) another card. These effects cannot be played if 
      you are unable to do this.
      a.   Wound cards can be never discarded or thrown away this 
           way, unless the effect explicitly allows so. Thus “any card” 
           refers to any card in your hand, except Wound cards. 

Also this (p. 5):

1. If an effect tells you to discard a card, put the discarded card 
      into your discard pile. You may never discard a Wound card, 
      unless the effect explicitly allows it.

That's it. The rulebook never makes any blanket statement that Wounds cannot be "any card" or "a card." Therefore, the rules do not exclude a Wound from being found via Preparation.