Rulings:Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur

Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur

Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur Rulings

Banishing a card always moves it to your Discard pile, so effects that move a card to your Hand or Inkwell when it is banished, move it (and any cards in its stack, if it's a shifted character) to your Discard pile first. Any cards in that stack become separate cards again at that point.

• If you control Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur and one of your Floodborn Characters who used their Shift ability to be played on top of another card is banished in a challenge, the stack of cards all go to your Discard pile first, and become separate cards, before you may choose to return the top card of the stack to your hand via Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur's INTO THE SHADOWS ability.
• Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur's INTO THE SHADOWS Ability works only when the Character in the Challenge was banished so the Character enters the Discard pile first before returning to hand. Thus this does not trigger Merlin - Shapeshifter.

• For example, if you have Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur in play and your Gramma Tala - Storyteller was challenged and banished, you choose whether to resolve Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur ability first or Gramma Tala - Storyteller ability first.
  • If you chose Gramma Tala - Storyteller ability to resolve first, you would be able to place Gramma Tala - Storyteller into your Inkwell.
  • If you chose Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur ability to resolve first, Gramma Tala - Storyteller would be returned to your Hand.

• If the active player Tinker Bell - Giant Fairy Challenges and Banishes an opponent's Flounder - Voice of Reason, then uses her PUNY PIRATE! ability to deal 2 damage to the opponent's already damaged Dr. Facilier - Agent Provocateur which banishes him, Flounder is banished and put into the Discard pile before any effect triggers. Following that, the triggers for Dr. Facilier and Tinker Bell will both activate. The active player will first get to resolve Tinker Bell's ability to deal 2 damage to Dr. Facilier to banish him, but Dr. Facilier's ability will still get to trigger his ability to return Flounder to hand.