Does Hidden Chambers reduce the cost of Meera Reid to come out of shadows when her ability is initiated?

Also, can Meera be used to blank event cards?

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers!

BARF said:

From the FAQ:

Can I use Hidden Chambers (City of Secrets
F3) to reduce the cost of the triggered effect
on Meera Reed (Tourney for the Hand F2) that
brings her out of Shadows?
No. Hidden Chambers only reduces the
cost to bring cards out of Shadows during a
standard Shadows opportunity at the beginning
of each phase. It cannot be used to reduce the
cost of a triggered effect that brings a card out
of Shadows.

BARF said:

What exactly are you thinking about?

Anyway, no, you can't use Meera to blank events. Meera can only blank cards in play, so you can't use her to blank events in your opponent's hand (apart from the fact that you wouldn't know which of their cards in hand are events anyway).

You can't use her to blank events after they've been played either. By the time you have the chance to trigger Meera, the event has been fully resolved and is in the discard pile.

Unless you mean whether you can blank events that have become characters or attachments. Technically, you can blank those, but it won't do you any good. The text that made them characters/attachments has already been resolved by the time you get around to trigger Meera, and all the text they have when they are in play as characters/attachments is gained text, which isn't affected by blanking effects.

So, long story short, no you can't.

I can't believe I missed that in the FAQ.

And I meant can Meera blank an event after it has been played. Thanks for answering.

-Taylor

Again, no. Any event you'd care to name is either a Response or a Player Action. Meera Reed's ability itself is a Player Action, so by definition it can't be activated in response to an Event being played.

If it's one of those oddball Events where the physical piece of cardboard stays on the table, then it depends. Something like "He Calls It Thinking" specifically says it becomes an attachment with text, so that's a legitimate target for blanking. Reinforcements events specifically say they become Characters, so you can blank their keywords. Bear in mind the glib answer is still correct--you're not blanking an event, you're blanking an attachment or a character, regardless of the fact that the card border has little birds down the side.

Perhaps he is referring to when cards like Doran's Game have been used:

" Response: Kneel a character or 3 influence to cancel the effects of an event card just played. Then, you may kneel a second character to attach that event to your House card. You may play that event as if it were in your hand."

Once the results of this event has attached an event to your House card, I see zero reason why the attached events could not be blanked by Meera Reed for the duration of the phase. This is the only scenario I can see that an event is exposed and in play before triggering their effects. Even if they are now considered "attachments" for the purposes of targeting attachments and attachment hate, their text boxes are still printed and thus are exposed to blanking effects, such as Meera Reed and Frozen Solid.