We are having some confusion in the timing and saving mechanic. The question we're having is how many times can you save a single character. We are currently under the impression that you only get a single Save response per character, regardless of how many opportunities you may have.

Here is an example, lets say you have, like, I dunno, ONE HUNDRED Risen from the Sea in your hand.

Conversely, your opponent also has a hundred Drinking the Sea in his hand.

(Risen saves a dude, Drinking stops a dude from being saved).

Your opponent kills one of your dudes, and you play a Risen to save him. Your opponent plays a Drinking to cancel the save.

Is it done there? Or can you play another Drinking to try and save again, only to be cancelled again, only to try and Save again, and on and on until one of you runs out of a card to save / cancel save?

Thanks.

MechaJeff said:

You may trigger many responses if you don't violate Responses Per Trigger rule (FAQ page 6).

So if opponent plays Risen from the sea and you cancel it with Drinking the sea, your opponent can play another copy of Risen from the sea (because you canceled only the first copy). Different copy of event is treated as a separate effect.

Now, if opponent uses for example Viserys ability and you cancel it, your opponent cannot use the same ability again.

Additional caveat: You can keep trying to save a character from the same kill effect (with different save Responses) until one is successful . Once a save is successful, the character is no longer in danger of being killed and the play restrictions for any other save are not actually met. That is, you can't save something from being killed that is not actually being killed anymore.

This is important, for example, because it means that once you save a character with Risen From the Sea, you can't save it again with a second copy just to get a second +1 STR attachment on it.

Cool, thanks.

My last question would be about duplicates on unique characters. If a character has multiple duplicates on him, can you continue to discard them if one gets cancelled?

Yes. Each dupe is considered a different and separate Response effect.