He Calls It Thinking: Response: Cancel the effects of a response without an influence cost. Then, attach He Calls it Thinking to a Martell character (counts as a Boon attachment with the text 'Attached character gets +2 STR.').

My question is, if He Calls It Thinking is played to cancel the Response of discarding an attached duplicate to save a unique character from being removed from play, is the attached duplicate card still discarded, or is the act of discarding part of the effect of the response, and therefor also canceled, keeping it attached to the unique character?

Also, can He Calls It Thinking be used to cancel Maester Wendymar's response? He response text reads: "Response: Kneel Maester Wendamyr to save a Greyjoy character from being killed or discarded. Then, you may kneel 2 influence or kneel a Learned character to stand that character." This one was contested in my last game because Wendamyr's response DOES have an influence cost, but it's an optional one to pay for an additional effect that may or may not be part of the response. (Recall that He Calls It Thinking cancels the effect of a response *without an influence cost*) In the end we just flipped a coin, and said that He Calls It Thinking can indeed cancel Wendamyr's Response, but we'd like to know for next time.

Discarding a dupe to save is part of the cost so the dupe is already discarded at the point in which you cancel the save with HCiT.

As for Wendamyr, though I could be wrong on this, the only part that initiates in step 1 is the "Kneel Maester Wendamyr to save a Greyjoy character from being killed or discarded." part which doesn't include an influence cost. Afaik the Then part only initiates in step 3 after a successful Kneel and save so it doesn't have an influence cost at the point at which HCiT could and would cancel it. I'll double check the FAQ for this tomorrow I think.