"At the end of the Marshalling Phase discard all cards in shadows"

Apart from the high initiative me and my friends initially thought this plot to not be very useful, but it's now occurred to me why it is at the end of the marshalling phase…. It's because you don't get any gold until after the opportunity to bring cards out of the shadows in the Marshalling phase, correct?

So unless a card is s0 cost, then you can't possibly bring it out of the shadows until the challenge phase, is this correct?

There are always bizzare possibilities, but for the most part, yes. That is correct.

The other thing it does is stop people from playing cards into Shadows during that Marshalling phase (unless they are really not paying attention). If the plot discarded all cards in Shadows immediately when it was revealed, people would start putting cards into Shadows that very same round. As is, you are more or less guaranteed a full round without Shadow cards.

ktom said:

Happens to me *every time* . I'm an Old World version of Darryl Loyd…