hi mate.

if i use the agenda, the siege of the winterfell, can i claim power ,in the power challenges?

pg8 said:

You can still "take" power from the opponent's house card and put it on your house card through winning Power challenges, but you cannot "claim" power for your house outside of Military challenges. The phrase "claim power for your house" is very specific on all cards and abilities. Fulfilling Power challenge claim is not claiming power for your house.

In case what I said sounds confusing, the simple answer is yes, you may take power from your opponents house card and place it on your own in the amount of your claim value for winning a power challenge.

It seems counterintuitive because of the terminology used. But technically, when you win a power challenge, you do not "claim" power for your House, even though you are referring to the "claim" number on your plot card.

When you "claim" power in this game, you take it from the power pool and put it on one of your cards. As such, claiming power always increases the total number of power on the board.

When you win a power challenge, your "prize" is to move a number of tokens (equal to the "claim" number on your House card) from the loser's House card to your own. The total number of power on the board doesn't change - although it shifts between players. So winning a power challenge is "moving" power, not "claiming" power.

Another way to look at it: when you win a military challenge, you do not "claim" dead characters and when you win an intrigue challenge, you do not "claim" cards from the opponent's hand. Instead, you kill characters and discard cards, respectively. In the same way, you do not "claim" power tokens when you win a power challenge; instead, you move them.

The long and short of it is that by playing Siege at WInterfell, you do not make your power challenges effectively meaningless.