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When using Haman's Plot, are you required to discard 3, or can you discard fewer? So if your opponent has only 2 characters, are you required to discard one of your own? Also, if there are only a total of 2 characters in play, are you still able to use it?

Nameless is incorrect. "May" simply means you can choose not to carry out the ability at all (for example, if you wanted to play HP for the numbers), however if you choose to carry out that ability you must do it completely. Unless a card says "up to", you are required to carry out the ability on as many targets as the card specifies (in this case, 3). The only exception is if there aren't enough legal targets (for example, if they have a fortress protecting the characters in their territory) in which case there is a "do as much as you can" policy in Redemption so you would choose as many legal targets as you can and then discard those.

Quote from: browarod on May 20, 2012, 08:12:56 PM

Nameless is incorrect. "May" simply means you can choose not to carry out the ability at all ....

That is what Nameless said.

Yes, Nameless was not wrong, but what he said didn't answer joezim007's question.

If you play plot, you must either discard 3 (or as many as you can if there are not enough legal targets), or none.

Even so, his answer was incomplete.

I agree, and we appreciate your willingness to clarify all the questions. 

Although I have seen it played that people chose to only strike 2 (that was on ROOT though and may have been illegal)

That was indeed illegal.