If I have a Queen's Knight with Milk of the Poppy attached to it and I ambush into play a Dragon Thief to remove the attachment, does the Queen's Knight bounce back to hand? Or does the Milk of the Poppy's effect somehow blank the card text long enough that the Queen's Knight passive effect doesn't kick in?

Similarly, let's say I have Son of the Mist out with Milk of the Poppy on it. If I play as my last card Ill Tidings and discard the Milk, will I be able to kneel a clansman character to claim a power? Or does the Milk somehow prevent the response effect on that character?

I'm guessing that in both cases the characters' effects still trigger, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Twn2dn said:

Queen's knight ability is passive, so it's wrong example (discarding Milk is later as a response).

Twn2dn said:

Milk becomes moribund, but it still works until step 6.

As Rogue says, when you discard Milk of the Poppy, it becomes moribund, remaining in play (with its effect active) until the end of the action window. So any Response (or other ability) on the card that has Milk of the Poppy on it remains unavailable until the next action window when Milk has physically left play.

In both of your examples, neither character effect initiates.

Great, thanks for the help! I definitely would have played that wrong (wasn't a question that came up in game, just something I was curious about).