"..may initiate an additional Intrigue challenge during each challenges phase" vs "during the challenges phase". I wondered if this language implies that anytime challenges are declared in a phase, including card effects like Shadow Politics or Lucas Blackwood, that this additional challenge can be done? Or is the wording simply to avoid treating it as if it can only be used for one round per game?

Initiating a challenge in the Plot or Dominance phase by cards like Blackwood or Shadow Politics downs not transform the phase into a Challenge phase anymore than taking a Big Mac to KFC would transform it into a McDonalds.

There are card effects - like Den of the Wolf - that make it possible to have more than one challenge phase in a round, though

Sorry for the stupid question, but sometimes when I read a card something occurs to me that I hadn't considered before.

I can't find the post (infernal forum search) prompted me to ask. It was a thread about possible 1 turn wins,. The post indicated use of both Shadow Politics and an Epic Phase event card to create additional opportunites to do challenges. The power claimed from each of these phases, according to the post, made me think that 2 challenges were done in each.

Then I noticed the wording on the agenda is "each challenges phase" where the wording on any other card that refers to the phase itself (and not the act of challenging) uses "the challenge phase" or "the challenges phase", sometimes even capitalizing it. The agenda wording came across as more generic

The combination of these prompted the question - not the fact that I thought phases could transform into a challenges phase. If anything, I blame the inconsistency with the language/templating, as discussed in the Castle Battlements thread, used on the cards when referencing the challenges phase. A man ponders why there is a difference.

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