Hi,

I searched long and hard for the answer, but cannot seem to find it. That seems strange to me, as I have made the observation that any question I have regarding a game has already been asked somewhere else, but maybe this is an exception :-)

Anyways, here is my nitpicky question: On the cards Astapor and Mereen from the Queen of Dragons Expansion, it says:

Challenges: Kneel Mereen to choose 1 participating Dragon character you control. Until the end of the phase, that character gains "Immune to opponents' trigggered effects." If you win the challenge draw 1 card for each participating Dragon character you control.

and

Challenges: Kneel Astapor to choose 1 participating Dragon character you control. Until the end of the phase, that character gets +2 STR. If you win the challenge, stand that character.

What I am confused about is the exact wording on the cards. In both cases, it says "if you win the challenge", not "if you win a challenge", which would either imply that:

a) This effect triggers only once, or

b) This effect only lasts for one particular challenge. But on the card it says that the effect lasts until the end of the phase, so I am confused.

So, my question again in short: Do the effects of Mereen and Astapor trigger for every challenge won, or only once?

Thanks for reading :-)

For both effects, you have noticed the wording used for targetting is : "choose 1 participating Dragon character".

This gives you several pieces of information :

- The dragon character is targeted by the effect because the word "choose" is written.

- The dragon character is participating, which mean you can trigger this effect only after you Dragon has been declared attacker or defender (or entered the challenge through a card effect) during a challenge

Then, it says the effect last until the end of the phase. So your Dragon gets its +2 STR bonus / Immune to opponent's triggered effects until the end of the phase.

Note that this kind of effects during more than a player action are called "lasting effects". They may resolve a long while after they have been initiated.

As such, the stand effect, and the draw effect, only resolves when you win THE challenge when you had triggered this lasting effect. That's when the "If you win the challenge..." part of the lasting effect resolves. The other part of the effect, however, do last until the end of the phase.

So, in short, to answer your questions :

a) the effect do trigger only once

b) you draw/stand only during the challenge where you have triggered your effect. You keep the +2 STR / Immunity bonus until the end of the phase.

Thanks for the clear answer, that makes a lot of sense!