Sacred Weapon - do you get to keep the weapon?

[Alex319]

If you play the "Sacred Weapon" spell, do you get to keep the weapon you summon after the encounter, or do you have to banish the weapon?

The section in the rulebook on "Summoning and Adding Cards" (p.15) does not seem to address this case. It talks about summoning a card that you will then encounter, or summoning a card that is already in play, or summoning and building a location, but not on just summoning a boon.

[Hawkmoon269]

No, you don't get to keep it. Unless the card that summoned it tells you to do something else, summoned cards always go back to the box.

[Longshot11]

Hawkmoon269 wrote:

summoned cards always go back to the box.

Yes, but WHEN? Without having either the rules, or "Sacred Weapon' on hand, I'd wager the rules talk about the card returning to the box after resolving the checks against it, or something; with the weapon - you summon it, you use it, but does anything tell you when to banish it? I can see it being argued that it's banished at the end of scenario, nothing else being specified.

An issue that may be related: the location in S&S that makes you summon and acquire a plunder - I always played it as if I get to keep the loot (assuming it would otherwise state "succeed the check to acquire', not just 'acquire' which I take to be a specific action the gives me ownership of the card). Have I been playing that wrong?

I don't argue the intent of Sacred Weapon, I'm sure it's meant to be encounter only, but maybe it can be better worded?

[Andrew L Klein]

You banish the summoned card as soon as you are done dealing with it (in this case, after it is played), unless the summoning card says otherwise. If a card says to summon and acquire, then it is letting you acquire it, which is saying otherwise. Vic or Mike actually confirmed this in a thread in the last week or so.

[Vic Wertz]

rulebook wrote:

After evading a summoned card or resolving the encounter with it, never put it anywhere other than back in the box unless the card that caused you to summon it instructs you otherwise.