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Can shields or penalty-ignoring cards stop a Master's failure penalty?

The designer answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.

  • Timbard · Community · 2024-12-18
  • Tommywolf · Community · 2025-01-20
  • biophys · Community · 2025-01-20
  • KevinW · Designer · 2025-09-01

Yes — a Master's penalty is a failure penalty, so shields and ignore effects apply to it, though the failure still counts for other triggers. Khor's shield only reduces damage; it cannot prevent other effects of the penalty.

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