Sansa Stark says (probably not exact wording) "Response: after a player plays an attachment on Sansa Stark, that player may draw a card".

First glance you read that and think that the person playing the attachment may (if they choose) draw a card. But hang on. Can you trigger responses on other people's cards? That just seems... wrong. I suspect that they use the word "you" alot do refer to the owner of the card (at that time) - so "Response: after you do this, you may do that". But is it really the case that without the word "you", anyone can use anybody else's responses?

If not, does that mean that the owner can choose when to allow this to happen? Obviously use it yourself when you play positive attachmenets on her, that's fine. But the fact that this card specifically doesn't use the word "you" is what confuses me. Is it meant for melee play? Where you can entice people to play positive attachments on her in return for cards, as part of the whole temporary alliances part of the game?

Sansa's ability represents the fact that wherever she goes, people use her as a pawn in their schemes because she's so naive.

Anyone, therefore, who gets to put an attachment on Sansa (either positive or negative) benefits from her being a pretty little bird by drawing the card, so in Joust you're wanting to get a card for giving her nasty attachments, while in melee you're playing whatever is the appropriate attachment on her at the time.

Make a deal with Sansa's owner to give her a good attachment in exchange for not being attacked, or so the Stark player helps you finish second as they finish third... or give her a bad one to help the rest of the table out. Choice is yours.

More of a rules question than a General Discussion one...

But my first instinct (without double-checking the rules) is no, you can't. Which certainly seems counter-intuitive, given the wording. Several responses specifically read "any player may trigger this effect" (eg. Steelshanks Walton).


Edit: Double checked. FAQ "These abilities are
optional, and must be triggered by the player
controlling the card at the appropriate time
for their effect(s) to occur"


So yeah, you're right. You could trade an attachment with a stark player for a draw, but he'd have to trigger the response.

Thanks folks And sorry for putting it in the wrong forum - I've been frequenting another AGoT forum recently that doesn't have a separate rules forum and I just came here on autopilot