When this (Infurnace) creature is put into play it has the 'Play:' ability to "purge up to 2 cards from a discard pile. Your opponent loses Aember equal to the total Aember bonus of the purged cards."

So there are 2 questions I am not seeing from the rules on this one.

1) Can the active player playing this monster purge cards from anywhere in the discard pile, (if they know of multiple cards fairly deep down), or are they required to purge them in order of the discard pile (off the top)? Being there is no search text on the card it would leave me think the latter even though the Discard pile is open information, but still requires to be played and stacked in order on the discard pile. But I can also see the active player saying purge "your most powerful card, or X card" since the Discard pile is open knowledge.

2) Does the card have to be the other players discard pile or can the active player purge a card from their own (the active player's) discard pile? So if the active player purged from their own discard pile and it had Aember bonus their opponent would still lose 2 Aember. though the cards still says "a discard pile" it looks like the active would still have to chose their own or their opponents discard pile to purge from.

Thanks!!

1. Discards are public knowledge and you can freely go through them at any point but you cannot re-arrange them due to cards like XYZ Researcher. Thus, you can choose what to purge even if they're nice and buried in there.

2. Yes, it says "A discard pile" thus you get to target either your own, or your opponents discard. Then purge up to 2 cards from that discard pile, you just can't do 1 from yours and 1 from your opponent with the same play.

On 12/21/2019 at 8:17 PM, krechevskoy said:

it had Aember bonus their opponent would still lose 2 Aember

Yes, if those cards had only 2 aember on them. Note that the aember bonus on the cards determines how much aember your opponent loses. The "aember bonus" is the marks of aember on a card underneath its house symbol. So assuming you purged 2 cards from either discard pile...

• Neither card has an aember bonus? Opponent loses 0.
• One card has 1 aember and the other card doesn't? Opponent loses 1.
• The 2 cards are Virtuous works (3 aember bonus) and Fuzzy Gruen (2 aember bonus)? Opponent loses 5.

Thus why sometimes you may want to hit your own discard if your opponent doesn't have enough targets to save the game.