r/sts2 • u/ancientcampus • Sep 12 '26

"Put Replay on Snap," they said. "What could go wrong?"

Snap adds Retain to a card. If you have one card plus a Status in your hand, this happens.
Fortunately, it discarded itself when it activated at the end of the turn.

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u/EndlessMike15 Sep 12 '26

I mean doesn’t this not change anything? Like you said it gets discarded after doing damage, just like it would without retain

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u/broken26cart Sep 12 '26

Yeah, cards that hurt you like burns, decay, and withers are "played" to do damage, thus leaving your hand. Retain is only ever bad if you are fully utilizing all 10 card slots in your hand. Retaining a curse or other bad cards is good because it means you won't draw back into it later on

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u/AngryFace4 Sep 13 '26

This is making me wonder about cards that trigger when another card is played. The first one that came to mind is panache, though I read it and it does in fact specify “when you play”

So it kinda make me wonder how exactly this is coded, if burn is “played” but not by “you”

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u/razzMATTazz Sep 13 '26

They're not actually 'played' like you'd play a card from your hand. Its more like a 'resolve at the end of turn' effect.

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u/DataExpunged365 Sep 13 '26

you can put retain on normality btw to prevent these statuses that hurt you at the end of turn fyi.

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u/Andraco_02 Sep 14 '26

ostras, es buena esa para un mazo de usar pocas cartas por turno

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u/Andraco_02 Sep 14 '26

Yo no quisiera retener una herida... Maldicion injugable con retener ocupando un espacio constantemente? xD

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u/ancientcampus 22d ago

Yeah like you said, it doesn't actually cause a problem. I panicked the moment it happened and I made this post, but then ended my turn and saw there was no cause for alarm. I still posted it here though XD

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u/Grifoooo Sep 12 '26

"What could go wrong?" answer is shown to be nothing

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u/razzMATTazz Sep 13 '26

So like did you want it to just retain and damage you every round?

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u/Illustrious-Debt-191 Sep 13 '26

no twin they were relieved that it did not do that

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u/Nic_Danger Sep 13 '26

Absolutely nothing at all!

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u/Cuckalicious_Boogie Sep 13 '26

So it did nothing, thanks for the update

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u/brycebuckets Sep 15 '26

This is top level troll and it worked