elected guild leader

[Blazinjsin]

Does Elected Guild Leader trigger automatically when youkici in a door and get it like a curse, or does it go to your hand? Also if it's in my hand can I play it on someone else?

[Brandonson112]

I believe it goes into your hand, and no you can't play it on someone else.

[Clipper]

It does go into your hand, but you actually cant play it on someone else. It would only have those effects if it were a Curse, which it is not. Regular Door cards can only be played on yourself unless the card or a rule says otherwise. MunchkinMan agreed with this observation in this post.

[Mister Ed]

Did someone with design insight ever chime in? Because as ruled, it seems a pretty worthless card to me (in addition to being ironic, in that you can only "elect" yourself), and I'm curious about what the design intent was. I expect I'm likely missing something about the strategy involved. It just seems a very poor risk to play on yourself.

That's definitely the ruling, though, so at the moment, I use the card as discard fodder.

[DoomedDuck]

Originally Posted by Mister Ed

Did someone with design insight ever chime in? Because as ruled, it seems a pretty worthless card to me (in addition to being ironic, in that you can only "elect" yourself), and I'm curious about what the design intent was. I expect I'm likely missing something about the strategy involved. It just seems a very poor risk to play on yourself.

That's definitely the ruling, though, so at the moment, I use the card as discard fodder.

The only time I've ever gotten it, I used it. And it was a very good decision because I was getting treasures galore. So in the future, I will probably use it every time I get it unless everybody is super weak and constantly losing. My play group normally has someone that will offer to help the main player just because everyone likes getting treasures.

[Mister Ed]

Wierd. In our games early on people are losing because they aren't strong enough yet, and later on people are losing because everybody is HELPING them lose. They don't lose all the time, but enough that losing a level every time ANYBODY loses a combat is not really worth the extra treasure at all. I don't often find myself with a severe shortage of treasure (especially with the fast play rules, which we always use), but I sometimes find myself with a shortage of opportunities to level up, so losing levels for every lost combat by everybody would be kind of a nightmare.