[MunchkinMan]

Given what I said earlier: No, you can not play them without effect. It's pretty straightforward: You can't go up a Level, so you can't use cards that would let you go up a Level. We give you lots of options to get rid of cards from your hand so you don't have to give them away as Charity, but we draw the line at playing cards that would give you a Level you can't get without killing a Monster. Obvious exceptions to that would be cards that say, explicitly, that they can give you the winning Level.