Hey guys I'm back with a noob question. I was making some decks on cardgamedb, and I had a question about the dead pile. Is the dead pile for characters only? I wanted to add as many dire wolf attachment cards as I could and I didn't know if their uniqueness would affect their playability. I searched the faqs first and found nothing. Maybe I overlooked it, and I was hoping for some help here. I have the same question about unique locations. I know this may be a dumb question, but as I said I am new. Thanks for any help on this.

worldeater said:

The dead pile isn't exclusively for characters. Most of the cards that end up there will be characters but sometimes other cards will, too (i.e., cards with the Deadbound keyword like Forever Burning and The Prince's Plans).

But, unless a card effect says otherwise, attachments, events, and locations go into the discard pile when they leave play. If you have a unique character version of a card (say, Grey Wind) that also has an attachment version, however, the dead pile rule applies: You cannot play, put into play, or take control of any type of unique with the same name if any card by that name is in your dead pile (and, of course, once you have one version in play, any other copies, regardless of type, can be played as duplicates on the one in play but not as separate entities).

I can't thank you enough for that clear and quick response. It makes sense, but I had to check. Thanks again! That's how you do that!!!

When using 2 versions of a card, you could have the scenario where you play the attachment version of Grey Wind. Later on it is discarded. You are then free to play the character version of the card because there is not another card of the same name in play or in your discard pile.

However, if you had the character in play and they were killed and in the dead pile, you would not be able to play the attachment version ever since you cannot put into play a unique named card that is also in your dead pile.