Flanking Maneuver View Details
Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: 2
Tactic.
Action: Exhaust two characters, each with at least ©, to choose and destroy a non-Ancient One character.
Illustrator: Jeff Himmelman
Set: WitD

1) Does flanking maneuver work by exhausting 2 of his characters to destroy a character?

2) Does flanking maneuver work only by exhausting my own characters? or can I exhaust his and my own character to destroy?

3) Is it possible to just use flanking maneuver to just exhaust 2 characters and not destroy a character?

Thx...

Knifer said:

1 & 2) You must pay all costs with cards you control. So you must exhaust two of your characters with © to destroy a (and in this case that means any, no matter who it is controlled by) non-Ancient One character.

3) No. Once you trigger the action and pay the cost the effect must resolve unless it is canceled.

Exhaust two characters, each with at least ©, doesn't say it has to be your own characters?

Knifer said:

"(v1.4) Paying Costs
Costs are any resources paid in order to
play a card, as well as anything before the
“to” part of a card ability."

and

"You may only pay costs with cards you
control. You may never exhaust, drain
a domain, drive insane, sacrifice, or
otherwise use or alter the game state
of any card you do not control, as the
means of a paying the cost of an effect." (FAQ 1.4, p. 5)

In FM, exhausting 2 characters with C comes before "to" and are part of the cost of the card.

Yeah... that is what I said.

(Thanks for the actual CnP of the FAQ to back it up though.)