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Spike Trap: When do you discard it?

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Spike trap says: :action_condition::action_hunt:(HUNT): "If you keep a card with the keyword PREDATOR, you may immediately apply the consequence of the FIGHT action :action_fight: as though the action had been a success. Discard this."

Do you discard this only if you keep a PREDATOR card, or do you still have to discard it if you activated it for the HUNT action regardless of whether you find a predator or not? When do you need to decide whether you are going to discard it?
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Yes you do.

Why ? because you are able to use all or part of an object pile during an activation.

So if you don't want to insta kill the predator then you don't use this card. If you don't use this card you don't discard it :).

Just like the bolas. If you don't use them even if you use the pile containing it even for a :action_hunt:, then you don't discard them.


BUT, the durability is still decreased, even if you haven't use any other card from this pile.
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Kornetmuse wrote:
Yes you do.


FWIW, the two-part question was formulated such that a yes/no answer is ambiguous:

Anguish wrote:
Do you discard this only if you keep a PREDATOR card, or do you still have to discard it if you activated it for the HUNT action regardless of whether you find a predator or not?
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Update: Bruno confirmed the interpretation over on BGG:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/26775677#26775677
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Yes you only discard if you keep a predator card.

In fact it is not totally true. You discard this card only if you use the "square". You're not obliged to activate the :action_condition: bonus even if you perform the same type of action and even too if you have decreased the durability of the object containing the spikes.

Descreasing the durability only permit you to use any card you want from that object. It can be 0 :).

But you can also use the spike during a :action_hunt:, not choose a predator, and discard the spikes. In order to give room for another object for instance.
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