Alrighty, something Choitz said in the "Best Deck" thread got me thinking about something.
As far as I know, the only way for Dark WR to get around Stealth Sneak is to retreat. But losing your whole friend zone can be pretty devastating as a Dark Player. So it kinda got me thinking....
If you read the bottom of CoWG's text, it says "If you decide to escape, you do not need to discard your Friend Cards." Now, when CoWG is on a world card, this obviously refers to the player who owns the world card that it is on. However... there's nothing in the text saying that CoWG's effect doesn't apply when CoWG is in the Friend Area. Most of the text is under the "When battling this card..." criteria, but that one last sentence has nothing to do with battling CoWG. It only deals with a player retreating. Add that to the fact that cards like Tinkerbell, meant to be used in the Friend Area, say " You gain +2 HP"
Therefore, one could concievably read CoWG's text to mean this: If a Dark Player has CoWG in the Friend Area, and that Dark Player chooses to escape from a world, that Dark Player does not need to discard his whole friend area.
Thoughts? Rulings? Anything?