Harry Potter Munchkin: please help

[Hallieann22]

Sorry for the late reply. So I was in combat with a monster and was winning. My sister played a wandering monster with the LEVEL 4 COMMON WELSH GREEN. His card states (when it enters combat, your first task is to discard a card from your hand.)

I only had one card in my hand that was Engorgio: +10 to monster (if the monster is defeated we collect two extra treasures)

I wanted to just play this for the monster as I would have won even with the extra points to collect the extra treasures. However, my sister played the wandering monster with the monster that said I first needed to discard. So the question is can I play the card and then say I can’t discard because I don’t have a card orrrrr do I need to discard.

[Fufu]

Originally Posted by Hallieann22

LEVEL 4 COMMON WELSH GREEN

Thank you. I pulled out the card from Munchkin Harry Potter Deluxe.

Since "Common Welsh Green" does not say a player must discard a card from Your Hand, then I would conclude a player is not required to discard a card for the Monster to enter Combat-if the player has no cards to discard.

Brf is 100% correct about Munchkin following the order of operations.

Therefore, a player cannot play the Monster with a Wandering Monster card then decide to give the fight a +10 to Combat. The player would have to discard the card in Your Hand.