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Paper Shield

Submitted Darksbane , Apr 23 2011 12:45 AM | Last updated May 01 2011 10:26 PM

Paper Shield Type: Event House: Neutral Cost: Game Text: Response: Cancel the effects of an event card just played that does not have a gold or an influence cost. Flavor Text: "A paper shield," the eunuch said. "Try not to look so shocked, Lord Stark." Number: 46 Set: QoD Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Michael Dixon
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8 Comments

Grimwalker
Aug 08 2012 04:39 PM

If a card like Confession (KotS) isn't paid for with influence, can it be cancelled?

slothgodfather
Aug 08 2012 05:02 PM

Yes.

biggs369
Apr 02 2013 04:45 PM

Is there any reason at all to not include this card in every deck?

ShadowcatX2000
Apr 02 2013 05:16 PM

It takes up an event slot and a lot of decks don't care about opponents events or they only really care about events that cost influence, or they have better cancels. It can be a good card but there are plenty of reasons not to include this.

It also varies a lot on play style, would you rather have the cancels for when your opponent tries something or would you rather be on the offensive and force your opponent to have the cancel when you try something.

Wolfbrother
Apr 19 2013 07:16 AM

I have to disagree, the event itself still has an influence cost, paper shield doesn't say " cancel an event played without influence" playing the event by dodging the cost doesn't negate that the event still has a cost.

JCWamma
Apr 19 2013 08:01 AM

The event's cost is what you pay to trigger it, not what you could have paid to trigger it. I'll try to find the ruling on this, but that's definitely how it works.

EDIT: discussed in detail in the comments section of this Quill & Tankard Regulars article.

Persiatic
Apr 19 2013 08:31 AM

Which one would you say is the best cancel between Paper Shield (QoD) and The Hand's Judgement (TTotH) ?

LorasTyrell
Apr 19 2013 11:59 AM

Persiatic, on 19 April 2013 - 08:31 AM, said:

Which one would you say is the best cancel between Paper Shield (QoD) and The Hand's Judgement (TTotH) ?

Depends on what you are expecting to face. For example, Paper Shield is quite useless against Martell Kothh which uses influences to pay for almost every event (except He Calls It Thinking). In that case, if you really want to cancel those events (and some others from Targ Kothh, for example), you'll need Hand's Judjment, but having to keep 1 gold kind of sucks...