Hi

I was playing with my girlfriend a few days ago and we had an 'animated' discussion about when 'Immunity to Events' was applicable. She was defending a military attack using Jon Snow and a number of other defenders. I was initially using a pair of attackers that couldn't beat her handsdown, but decided to play Insidious Ways after she declared her defenders in order to bring one of my attackers up by 2 strength.

My girlfriend claimed that as Jon Snow was immune to events (printed on ghosts card who was in play but not defending) that this negated the effect of my playing the event card. I argued that the event had no effect on Jon Snow himself, it only effected the STR of one of my attackers and raised the overall STR of the attack.

I'm pretty sure that I'm right about this, only event cards that directly effect the text or stats of a character who has immunity are negated by the text (unless stated otherwise); but I promised I would look into it for clarification. (Though in the event I was unrelenting and went ahead with the manoeuvre).

Would appreciate some clarification here.

Immune to Events means two things:

- The immune card cannot be chosen as the target of effects of the type it is immune to. You could not, for example, choose and kill Jon Snow with A Lannister Pays His Debts in the situation you describe.

- The immune card ignores card effects it is immune to, but only insofar as these effects would directly interact with the immune card. For example, if Westeros Bleeds is played, all non-immune characters would be discarded from play, but Jon Snow would remain in play because of his immunity.

A character being immune to events does not prevent events being played wholesale, though. To do that, an event would have to read something like "Opponents cannot play events". See Euron Crow's Eye BwB for such an effect.

You can read up on Immunities in the FAQ, page 15f.