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Hmmm, doesn’t use Discover keyword, so will it show you 9 cards if that’s how many your opponent has?
It specifically says, “choose a card in your opponent’s hand” but I have this gut feeling it’s just gonna show me three cards 😒
You still choose from 3! We didn't use the Discover keyword here because Discover is a mechanic that generates things (the tooltip says "Choose one of three cards to add to your hand"), where as this card does the opposite!
And you might say "well what about Drakefire Amulet?" Well, that card IS generating things, they just go immediately into the battlefield rather than stick around in your hand.
Hope that helps! :)
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Nice
So is this card functionally just Stelina with condition?
With a different condition, yep! Stelina was Outcast, this is Secrets.
why use different wording compared to coilfang or stelina for the opponent's hand part?
Main reasoning being text space. If we wanted to spell it out and follow older examples like Coilfang or Stelina, we get some text shrinkage or just too long of a textbox.
May I ask how this isn’t considered confusing for newer players? If someone was coming from having only played MTG for example they would 100% assume this means any card. I understand this is a UI issue but was there much deliberation on how it’s worded?
Totally fair question! Since we're a digital card game, we have the benefit of never running into "rules debate" during a match (I remember when I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh with my friends, we'd constantly get into debates over whether X card meant Y or Z thing). The first-read is admittedly a bit unclear, but as soon as you play it for the first time, you get an understanding of what the card does because the game puts you through the motions for you. Plus, we think that the worst-case understanding of the card's text is preeeeetty close to the actual functionality, so it's not like you're totally lost!