POWERS
Display. While displayed:
When you suffer Combat damage, you may draw this card to reduce it to 2.
How does this work? How can you "draw" it is if is displayed?
Thanks for helping with this head-scratcher!
I would read that as you draw it back into your hand to reduce Combat damage to 2.
I'm not sure why that wouldn't just make this a long-winded way of reveal to reduce Combat damage to 2? I guess it gives you the ability to have an extra card since you'd have your hand limit plus the plate displayed?
You've got it. "Draw" means pick it up and put it back in your hand, and they do that instead of reveal now so that Armor doesn't stay in your hand.
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The idea - I guess - is that if it was just "While displayed: reduce Combat damage by 2", then 2 things would happen.
1) Since it would be a permanent effect, you could have many armors displayed adding up protections (since using that kind of power would not be playing the card)... which we don't want
2) Say you have 3 cards in hand and the armor displayed and take 5 Combat damage, you would reduce it by 2 (to 3), discard your whole hand and still have the armor displayed. With the "draw" effect you get back the armor in hand (to a total of 4 cards) before discarding 3... so you have the option to discard the armor to keep a more valuable card.
The idea - I guess - is that if it was just "While displayed: reduce Combat damage by 2", then 2 things would happen.
1) Since it would be a permanent effect, you could have many armors displayed adding up protections (since using that kind of power would not be playing the card)... which we don't want
2) Say you have 3 cards in hand and the armor displayed and take 5 Combat damage, you would reduce it by 2 (to 3), discard your whole hand and still have the armor displayed. With the "draw" effect you get back the armor in hand (to a total of 4 cards) before discarding 3... so you have the option to discard the armor to keep a more valuable card.
That really clarifies it. Thanks!
Also thanks everyone else for adding in!