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Bronze Shield

Submitted Darksbane , Aug 18 2010 03:14 AM | Last updated Mar 01 2011 05:22 AM

Bronze Shield Type: Attachment House: Martell Cost:1 Game Text: *Weapon. Armor.* Attach to a House Martell character you control. Response: After an opponent plays an event card, kill attached character to cancel the effects of that event. Then, if it is Summer, draw a card. Number: 32 Set: BtW Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Tomasz Jedruszek
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14 Comments

SpiderMonkey

Dec 08 2011 01:00 AM

Am I missing something awesome about this card? Or was this an April Fool's joke on Martell? I guess you could put this on the "kill everyone" Viper, but really?

AceManUSC

Dec 28 2011 07:19 PM

I am confused by this card as well. Seems rather costly, when you can use Paper Shield to cancel many kinds of events. During summer, it seems a little better since you get a draw out of it too, but it costs 1 gold. I just don't get it.

Vincu

Dec 28 2011 11:32 PM

Put it on
Lucas Blackwood (GotC) or as mentioned before The Red Viper (TftRK), and your oppenent musk think twice to play an event

Arrdet

Dec 28 2011 11:38 PM

This can only be attached to a Martell character so Lucas doesn't work. The chances of you running TRV from KLE rather than PoS just for this seems highly improbable.

cupcakewinterfell

Dec 30 2011 03:38 AM

Yep. This is a below average card. Paper shield and he calls it thinking are both, generally, superior options.

Vincu

Jan 01 2012 10:39 PM

We are talking about two different things here. Paper shield and like are surprise effects. this one is a constant that gives you the option to choose. Any player would think twice playing events, if all his/her characters can die in response.

FinalWarrior

Oct 15 2012 06:18 PM

I have a question about the "cost" part of this card. If you attach it to
Maester of the Sun (ASoS) while it is summer, and someone plays an event card- what happens?

Bronze shield states kill attached character (doesn't state it can't be saved) to cancel the effects of that event. Then draw the card.
If the maester kneels and saves himself, is the cost paid for? Or does the save effectively cancel the kill so nothing happens? Thanks!

ShadowcatX2000

Oct 15 2012 06:55 PM

He canceled the kill so the cost was not paid for.

FinalWarrior

Oct 15 2012 06:57 PM

Kinda thought that was the way of things. Thanks!

NuFenix

Oct 15 2012 07:01 PM

Paying costs is step 1, and saving is in step 2, so you are already dead by the time you can try and save. So technically, all costs of discard/kill are cannot be saved effects. But they only put it on some cards and not others, leading to the misunderstanding that you can try and save against the cost being paid.

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ShadowcatX2000

Oct 15 2012 08:39 PM

Shouldn't there be a new series of steps to respond to a death, and wouldn't that series of steps get worked through before the first action finished?

slothgodfather

Oct 15 2012 10:53 PM

The trouble with cost is it is the initiation of the effect, so I believe NuFenix is right, there isn't a subset of save/cancels to paying the cost. There is only a save/cancel of the effect, which the cost is still paid on.

So if you have to discard or kill a character to pay for an effect, there is not an opportunity to save from the cost. Even if there was, then since the cost was not paid the effect does not resolve.

Laxen

Oct 16 2012 06:44 AM

Could still be interesting to be able to save against paid costs, since this would at occasions make players able to save opponents' characters being killed to pay for effects to interrupt the cost - especially if the effect has any other additional costs which then are wasted

brainsplatter87

Feb 04 2013 11:22 PM

It's beneficial if you're playing
Alchemist's Shop (OSaS)
Also, the opponent will see it coming, so it will prevent them
from playing events. Furthermore, you can combo it with

Blood for Blood (PotS)
and Bam! Typical Martell bamboozlement!

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