Rex's Curse & Rex's Elder Sign Option

By FireBones, in Arkham Horror: The Card Game

If you have Rex's Curse and you get an Elder Sign token on the redraw and you opt to treat it as an automatic fail, does Rex's Curse get shuffled back into your deck?

I could see it going either way. One could argue that Rex's Curse caused you to fail because you would not have failed the skill test if you did not have the curse. One could also say that the curse did not cause you to fail because you could have chosen to succeed (assuming the elder sign would have been a success) and elected to convert the elder sign to an auto-fail.

From Matt Newman (1/25 e-mail ):

"Provided you’ve already returned 1 token to the bag from Rex’s Curse, and the second token you revealed was an Elder Sign, you could choose to automatically fail the test, draw 3 cards, and it would count as “this effect caus(ing) you to fail the test,” and you could then shuffle Rex’s Curse into your deck. =)"

Thanks!