Trigger in Character Deck

[Sathar]

Do Triggers fire when examining cards in your character deck? I can't find anything to say they don't, but it does feel... odd.

Last session, my Mavaro used his Helpful Haversack (an eternal source of my endless Googling) and Examined his Whatchmacallit of Ra. Its Trigger was irrelevant as I had no Ra blessings in my hand, but if I did would I have been able to add it to my hand for free? The card says to "acquire this card" but one of my colleagues claimed that I cannot "acquire" a card which I already "own".

I just picked up a Skeletal Hyena as well (Trigger: "reveal an animal to acquire"), which will generate more or less the same question.

Assuming the Triggers work normally, is there any consensus whether having and examining Triggers in your deck is generally (un)desirable? I saw one suggestion in another thread implying no, but there wasn't any discussion.

[elcoderdude]

A power on a card that activates when you examine the card, activates whenever you examine the card, regardless of what deck it is in (location deck, siege deck, blessing deck, character deck, you name it).

Acquiring a card means putting it in your hand.

MM Rulebook p.10 wrote:

If you succeed in acquiring the card, put it into your hand.

Nothing in the rulebook says you can't acquire the cards in your own deck.

So, this is legal:
I use a power to examine my character deck.
The card I examine is a Skeletal Hyena.
I reveal an animal ally to acquire the Skeletal Hyena.
I put the Skeletal Hyena into my hand.

It is an odd sequence, but this is how the rules are written, I think.

[elcoderdude]

The stranger question is -- if a character who could put monsters into his character deck does so (for instance, a Summoner), and examines his deck, and finds a monster with a Trigger that cause you to encounter the monster, does the character encounter it?

I would think "Yes".

[Keith Richmond]

It is perfectly in theme for you to have to be careful what you summon :)

[Sathar]

Thanks. I do remember a warning from a past life about casting Summon Dimensional Shambler without first learning Control Dimensional Shambler.....