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For the Lost Soul exchange on High Places (LoC), does it mean you chose 2 LSs and exchange them with 2 others or do you choose 1 LS and exchange it with the 2nd LS?

"...If your evil king, prophet or priest blocks, you may...exchange 2 Lost Souls."

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I wondered the same when I read that card. The way it’s worded sounds like you’re exchanging two of your lost souls with an opponent’s two, not one for one. If that were the case it should read like Centurion at Jerusalem, Wanderer LS, or Nebushasban in that the diction makes it clear that it’s a one for one exchange. Why not just have it read “you may exchange a lost soul”?

How come there’s inconsistency in certain wording? For example, Nebushasban was from FooF, and Prisoner Transfer from RoA, while Wanderer is from Priest and Centurion from PC and High Places from LoC. Why does the wording for this specific ability keep changing back and forth if it’s intended to do the same thing?

Gotcha. I just think that that wording choice isn’t very clear, as evidenced by the OP and what I also thought.  For example, what if an ability allowed a player to exchange 2 of your lost souls for 2 of his? This ability would probably never be approved but if it ever was how would that ability be worded? When the wording “exchange 2 lost souls” is used in English it sounds like two are being exchanged from one side of the board to the other.  I don’t see why “exchange a lost soul” or “exchange a lost soul for another” can’t be used. It’s simple, straightforward, and has limited wording.