How to play Wendy's Amulet the right way

[Dominik73 6]

Yesternight I played first time solo with Wendy and wondered that her Amulet has no free trigger icon and/or is missing some other text regarding exhaustion/how often and when you can use it.

 

So, am I correct in assuming that to use the Amulet's ability costs no action? The therefore played event card does also NOT cost an action, but only the ressources printed on it? (if so, why would FFG have not placed the free triggerd ability icon on the Amulet?)

 

Furthermore I can use the amulet's ability as many times in my turn as possible (until all event cards are depleted and/or I have no ressources to pay for events anymore)?

 

Thanks for your help!

[Notturno81 6]

Hi,

 

when you play an event you place it on the bottom of the discard pile. The actual action you do while using the amulet is playing the first event card from the top of your discard pile. You can use it 3 times as you have 3 actions (assuming you played any event cards before)

[Noaloha 25]

Wendy's Amulet is an example of a card which overrides the 'standard' rule text (one of the Golden Rules from the start of the Rules Ref). Whilst in play, it fundamentally changes the rules of the game for Wendy in terms of adding an additional option to where she can play events *from* and where they all go *to* after being played.

[Gaffa 673]

Wendy's Amulet just means two things for her (well, three -- it lets her autosucceed on an Elder Sign pull, which is always fun):

 

1. When she plays an Event from her hand, it goes to the bottom of her deck.

2. She can play the top Event in her discard pile as if it was in her hand.

 

The main purpose of this, beyond letting her replay Events she previously used before she got her Amulet out, is that she can discard an Event for committment or to use her redraw-token ability and then still play the Event. It also helps keep her safe from deck reshuffle (a minor bonus), as she can recycle Events endlessly so long as the Amulet survives.

[shosuko 2,174]

It only changes the pool of events you can play, they still cost according to the event.  If the event is "fast" then it doesn't take an action, but any other event would cost an action as normal.  Basically imagine it as if the card were in your hand, and you were playing it like normal.

[Dominik73 6]

 

The main purpose of this, beyond letting her replay Events she previously used before she got her Amulet out, is that she can discard an Event for committment or to use her redraw-token ability and then still play the Event.

 

I just learned from the forum at reddit that you can NOT "commit" an event with Wendy's Amulet, but just "play" it (as the card clearly states) because these two verbs are consciously used to mean each something different. 

[Dominik73 6]

 You can use it 3 times as you have 3 actions (assuming you played any event cards before)

And assuming there were no "fast" events I pulled from the discard pile, because as these would cost no action, I could add them to the 3 actions I have each turn.

[Dominik73 6]

Thanks everyone for clearing things out!!

[CommissarFeesh 458]

 

 

The main purpose of this, beyond letting her replay Events she previously used before she got her Amulet out, is that she can discard an Event for committment or to use her redraw-token ability and then still play the Event.

 

I just learned from the forum at reddit that you can NOT "commit" an event with Wendy's Amulet, but just "play" it (as the card clearly states) because these two verbs are consciously used to mean each something different. 

 

 

Indeed, you can't commit a card from the discard pile - but you CAN commit an Event card from hand for a test, then play it again AS an Event (and whisk it to the bottom of your deck).

[Gaffa 673]

 

 

The main purpose of this, beyond letting her replay Events she previously used before she got her Amulet out, is that she can discard an Event for committment or to use her redraw-token ability and then still play the Event.

 

I just learned from the forum at reddit that you can NOT "commit" an event with Wendy's Amulet, but just "play" it (as the card clearly states) because these two verbs are consciously used to mean each something different. 

 

 

Yup. That's why they created the term commit for using cards in that way, to distinguish from play.

 

In unrelated but parallel news, I still await with baited breath the first card game, of any sort, that invents some sort of terminology for "put into play" as being different from "play". They're just so easy to confuse in a passing glance; maybe something like "insert"? I dunno.

[shosuko 2,174]

 

 You can use it 3 times as you have 3 actions (assuming you played any event cards before)

And assuming there were no "fast" events I pulled from the discard pile, because as these would cost no action, I could add them to the 3 actions I have each turn.

 

I'm really unsure as to whether I understand your post...  but it sounds to me like this may be missing the mark. Wendy's amulet doesn't gift you any additional actions.  You get 3 actions during your turn, and you still only get those same 3 actions.  It is only that your options for what cards you could play for those 3 actions includes the events in your discard pile.  That's all it does is open up options to play the events, and when you play any event it goes to the bottom of your deck instead.  It doesn't give actions, and it isn't an activated ability.

 

Again - you may have understood it correctly, and I'm wrong in reading your response - no offense pls - I just posted this to be on the safe side.  Saying "add them to the 3 actions..." just sounds like it may be a misunderstanding.

Edited November 24, 2016 by shosuko

[Network57 561]

You can use it 3 times as you have 3 actions (assuming you played any event cards before)

And assuming there were no "fast" events I pulled from the discard pile, because as these would cost no action, I could add them to the 3 actions I have each turn.

I'm really unsure as to whether I understand your post...  but it sounds to me like this may be missing the mark. Wendy's amulet doesn't gift you any additional actions.  You get 3 actions during your turn, and you still only get those same 3 actions.  It is only that your options for what cards you could play for those 3 actions includes the events in your discard pile.  That's all it does is open up options to play the events, and when you play any event it goes to the bottom of your deck instead.  It doesn't give actions, and it isn't an activated ability.

 

Again - you may have understood it correctly, and I'm wrong in reading your response - no offense pls - I just posted this to be on the safe side.  Saying "add them to the 3 actions..." just sounds like it may be a misunderstanding.

It's kind of a bizarre way of stating it but I think he means you can play Fast Events without using one of your 3 actions.

[Dominik73 6]

 

 

 

You can use it 3 times as you have 3 actions (assuming you played any event cards before)

And assuming there were no "fast" events I pulled from the discard pile, because as these would cost no action, I could add them to the 3 actions I have each turn.

I'm really unsure as to whether I understand your post...  but it sounds to me like this may be missing the mark. Wendy's amulet doesn't gift you any additional actions.  You get 3 actions during your turn, and you still only get those same 3 actions.  It is only that your options for what cards you could play for those 3 actions includes the events in your discard pile.  That's all it does is open up options to play the events, and when you play any event it goes to the bottom of your deck instead.  It doesn't give actions, and it isn't an activated ability.

 

Again - you may have understood it correctly, and I'm wrong in reading your response - no offense pls - I just posted this to be on the safe side.  Saying "add them to the 3 actions..." just sounds like it may be a misunderstanding.

It's kind of a bizarre way of stating it but I think he means you can play Fast Events without using one of your 3 actions.

 

Excatly what I meant. Sorry for my bizzare way of stating! This game freaks me out wordwise! :-)

[Xenu's Paradox 40]

The main purpose of this, beyond letting her replay Events she previously used before she got her Amulet out, is that she can discard an Event for committment or to use her redraw-token ability and then still play the Event.

 

I just learned from the forum at reddit that you can NOT "commit" an event with Wendy's Amulet, but just "play" it (as the card clearly states) because these two verbs are consciously used to mean each something different.

Gaffs was saying that you can commit an event *from your hand* and then use the Amulet to play it from the discard pile.