The Spherewalker Staff has two powers which read as follows:
(1)...reveal this card and discard a card that has the Desna trait or a spell to [do something] ... (2) reveal this card and recharge a card that has the Desna trait or a spell to [do something else]
The Staff itself has the Desna trait. So can the discarded or recharged card be the Staff itself? Or should it mean "discard/recharge another card that has the Desna trait or a spell"? In other words, could you discard the Staff for the first power or recharge it for the second power?
Seems legit to me; revealing a card never makes it leave your hand so it would be available to also be discarded or recharged.
As for intent, it doesn't feel like an exploit to me so my gut feeling is that RAW and RAI match on this one.
Vulture works similarly. You can reveal it and then use it as the card you give to a random player to soak one damage.
Thanks! I believed so too but for some reason my friends thought I couldn't so I had to check.
(1) I thought I'd also ask, just in case:
during your move step [play it] to allow any number of characters at your location to move
- this can be either the location you move from or the location you move to?
(2) We also had a question related to the second power. If an abyssal location is permanently closed, is it considered to have the trait "Abyssal"? We doubted this because the trait is not present on the reverse side of the card, but the title is still in black, so who knows...
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1) Yes, it can be either. If it wanted to restrict you, it would have said "At the beginning of your move step" or "At the end of your move step" (see the Fortune Teller ally for an example of this).
2) Yes. Traits are only defined on the front of the card but they apply to the back as well (note that cards that have two fronts such as Abyssal Rift work differently, where each front has its own set of traits).
Skizzers, thank you for answering and for providing the link!