The Red Wedding vs. The Power of Blood

By chaosbird, in 2. AGoT Rules Discussion

Hi All,

I reveal The Red Wedding as a plot when my opponent reveals The Power of Blood.

All Lady and Lord in te game has the Noble crest.

What happens with the Red Wedding? As nobody dies, will the other character get the 2 power or not? We decided not to get it, but not sure as it's not a then effect after all.

The Red Wedding: When revealed, the opponent to your left chooses 1 Lord and 1 Lady character, if able. Then, you must choose and kill 1 of those characters. The other claims 2 power.

The Power of Blood: You may have up to 2 copies of The Power of Blood in your plot deck.
Noble characters cannot be killed.

Since neither can be chosen to be killed, there is no "other" to claim the power. Note that even if there are Lords and/or Ladies with no noble crest, the player who chooses does not have to choose one of them (or so I suppose).

The first part of TRW says to choose 1 Lord and 1 Lady if able. Thus I believe this part still resolve as there are lords and ladies to be legally choosen. However, because they cannot be killed, they thus cannot be choosen to be killed, and if you cannot choose 1 to be killed, there is no other to claim 2 power. Am I right to interpret it this way?

flea said:

The first part of TRW says to choose 1 Lord and 1 Lady if able. Thus I believe this part still resolve as there are lords and ladies to be legally choosen. However, because they cannot be killed, they thus cannot be choosen to be killed, and if you cannot choose 1 to be killed, there is no other to claim 2 power. Am I right to interpret it this way?

Right.

And if there is a single Lord or Lady without the noble crest and some with the crest, the one without the crest would have to be chosen to be killed.

Ok, thanks guys for the clarification!

What I was aiming at is the following: suppose there is a Lord without the noble crest (Knight of Flowers, for instance), a Lord with the noble crest (Robert Baratheon) and all Ladies in play have the noble crest (an there is at least one). Nothing forces the player who chooses the characters to choose the Knight of Flowers as the Lord rather than Robert Baratheon, because the "then" part is dependant upon the preceding part, but not the other way around.

Correct. There is no restriction on the person choosing the Lord and Lady to pick at least one that can be killed.