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If a card lets you choose between a penalty and a discard, but you cannot pay the penalty, must you take the other option?

Posts in several threads agree on the same rule, though none is a designer ruling in the sources.

  • kevinwho · Community · 2020-09-28
  • JayJ79 · Community · 2023-09-19
  • TheRubexCube · Community · 2019-08-25
  • JayJ79 · Community · 2017-12-21
  • dalestephenson · Community · 2023-02-02
  • Rafaella · Community · 2019-08-09

Yes. You cannot choose an option you cannot carry out, so with no Health to lose or no matching card you must take the other option. If neither can be done, nothing happens.

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