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During your Upkeep phase (which is between Draw and Prep), you deal with counters on your cards, including cards in your set aside.

If your card is set-aside for X turns, you remove a counter from that card during each of your upkeep phases.  If there are no more counters on a card, you resolve, at that moment, for whatever happens when the turns are up (which returns cards from set-aside, or discards cards, or anything else paired with these turn counters).

This example will show how this works pretty well:

It is my Draw phase, and I draw the Shame lost soul.  I choose one hero from your territory and one from mine.  Now, during my Upkeep phase, I remove one of those counters.

Your turn, during your Upkeep, you remove one counter.

My next turn, on my Upkeep phase, the second counter is removed, and my hero returns to territory.

Your turn, during your Upkeep, the second counter is removed, and the hero returns to territory.


If I had drawn the Shame soul during any other phase that turn (such as off of a draw ability), then my hero would have to wait for the next two turns of mine to come back, because it needs two of my Upkeep phases.


Hopefully that makes sense.