Discard:

Some abilities force you to discard cards from your hand, your deck or played cards. You can no longer use discarded cards.

• Place cards you discard face up into your discard pile. Return any tokens on a discarded card to the supply. You can look through your and your opponent's discard piles at any time.
• If both cards in a past encounter are discarded, shift all cards in later encounters one position to close the gap.

Copy and activate: You copy another card's ability and activate it, as if the copied ability were printed on this card. Activate: You activate another card's ability (at the position of that other card). If you activate an ongoing ability, place an ongoing token on the card as usual.

Played card: A card that is face up in the play area (including the current encounter). Discarded cards no longer count as played cards. "One of your played cards" must be a card that you have played. "Any card" can be one of your cards or one of your opponent's cards. Previous encounter: The encounter next to this one against the direction of play.

Past encounters: All encounters in play before this one against the direction of play.

Following encounter: The encounter in play that follows this one in the direction of play (not the next encounter, which has not yet been played).