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Originally Posted by Moldon
ok.
Can I discard an Enhancer (Item or not) then I must discard a card (for example to use an ability)?
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If I'm correct in my understanding of the previous rulings, then you cannot discard just the Enhancer to power an ability and also leave the Item in play. You must discard the Item it is attached to in order to discard the Enhancer. I'm certain that if you do discard both the Item and the Enhancer, you can count those as multiple discards for abilities like the Warrior's Berserking ability which allows you to discard up to 3 cards to get a bonus for each card discarded. You could also use the Dutch Accent's I’ll Take What In The Box Is ability to discard a Ship and its Enhancer to draw a new Treasure.
As I said in my earlier post, I am fairly sure of the above, but I just did some research to try to look for the rulings that led me to that conclusion. There were some conflicting rulings made earlier this year, that make it difficult to determine the true answer, unfortunately. MM said you actually could discard an Enhancer without discarding its attached Item here:
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Originally Posted by MunchkinMan
However, the Ship Enhancer is attached thus: If the Ship goes, the Enhancer goes. However, one can normally detach a Ship Enhancer in order to discard it (not trade, not move to another Ship, but a discard) in order to sell it, or for Curses/Bad Stuff which say you must discard Items or cards.
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Yet he had said one month earlier almost exactly the opposite:
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Originally Posted by MunchkinMan
Once a Ship Enhancer is attached to a Ship, it's attached to the Ship. You can't take it off to sell it.
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And one month earlier to that, he said:
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Originally Posted by MunchkinMan
No. Once a Ship Enhancers is played on a Ship, it stays on a Ship. There are explicitly stated cards which are exceptions, and the fact that they are so explicitly stated should make it clear that they are exceptions.
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And also, much earlier in 2008, he said:
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Originally Posted by MunchkinMan
Hmmmmm. . . Any time a card is permanently attached to another, discarding one would force the discard of the other. That's 2 cards you're discarding, and I don't see that they count as anything else. We are talking about cards, and not Items or Races that you are specifically discarding, yes? If the ability you are using says to discard an Item, than anything attached to an Item would go, but it's still one Item.
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I think I have seen Andrew ruling the same way as MM's earlier three rulings, but I can't find an example right now. I am ignoring the first and most recent ruling I quoted in my interpretation above, but that ruling disagrees with so many previous rulings that I think it may have been in error. I'm sure someone will be along to clear all this up soon, though.