Sorry for asking a question to which I feel I should be more confident about the answer...
Aeron Damphair allows me to put into play a Holy character with cost 3 or lower when he is killed. As I am not marshalling that card, out of house cards will not be subjected to any gold penalty when counting their costs and putting them into play with this effect, right?
Winter said:
As I am not marshalling that card, out of house cards will not be subjected to any gold penalty when counting their costs and putting them into play with this effect, right?
Correct, you can fetch any non-unique Holy character at printed 3 cost or less.
It's a little confusing, but "cost" pretty much always means "printed cost" unless otherwise specified. It's confusing because "STR" always means "current STR" unless "printed STR" is specified.
It's exactly the opposite for cost and STR because cost modifiers are only applied when you have to pay the cost, but STR modifiers are always applied.
If cost modifiers were always considered when referring to a cards cost, you'd start getting into some really weird situations. For example, let's say you (playing Stark) play a Northern Infantry (Stark Army, 4-cost) after discarding a Narrow Sea to lower the cost by 2. Does it have a cost of 2 (what you paid for it) or a cost of 4 (its printed cost)? Now let's say I (playing Baratheon) use Seductive Promise to take control of it. Does it have a cost of 6 (what I would have to pay for it if it came out of my hand), 4 (what I would have paid for it from my hand with the same reducers you used applied), 4 (its printed cost) or 2 (what was actually paid to put it into play this game)?
See how quickly that can get weird? That's why we stick to "cost = printed cost, unless otherwise specified."
Out of curiosity, what OOH Holy characters were you planning on using? I'm working on a GJ holy deck and I considered Practical Believers OOH as an anti-Lannister card but I waffle between it being a good idea and the possibility of drawing them when I really want them in my deck...
I'd think Zealot of the Light or House Tully Septon, too.
Practical Believers has some real possibility because Greyjoy and Lannister share Sunset Sea as a reducer. You can wipe out the gold penalty with the reducer that's probably already in your deck if need be.