Narrow Escape
Any Phase: Put into play from their owner's dead piles or discard piles all characters that were killed or discarded from play this phase. Any opponent may discard his or her hand of at least 1 card to cancel this effect.

If I discarded a duplicate to save a character, can I use Narrow Escape's ablility to return this character into play and to be a new duplicate?

I have two confuses:
1. Duplicate is not character, Narrow Escape note "...their owner's dead piles or discard piles all characters ..."
2. Discard a duplicate is a save action, its cancel kill or discard. Narrow Escape note "...that were killed or discarded from play this phase..."
so, we are arguing this duplicate can be returned via Narrow Escape.

If so, we have another question.
If we have multi-copies of this character in dead pile or discard pile in this phase, when I simultaneously put them into play, can I decide which one will be a character, and which one to be a duplicate?

Thanks a lot

I think you can't put into play discarded duplicate, since it was duplicate (not character). Similarly you can't put into play Missing Recruit, since it is not character now.

As for different copies, I think the owner decides which copy will be duplicate.

I think it is ok for duplicates come back to play by narrow escape.

Duplicate has no title, no crest, no text box, but it is still a character anyway.

Uncle Joker said:

The point is, it was discarded as duplicate not discarded as character.

Rogue30 said:

Then would Reinforcement characters return with Narrow Escape?  While they aren't character cards in your dead or discard pile, they are killed or discarded as characters, or do they not return do to an "identity crisis"?

FATMOUSE said:

There are essentially 2 requirements for Narrow Escape to apply to a card in your dead and/or discard pile:

1. It has to be a character card

2. It has to have been in play as a character during that phase.

Most cards fail on #2 (cards discarded from hand or deck, dupes, etc.). The Reinforcement events would fail on #1.

@ktom: I don't understand very well condition #2. Shouldn't it be "It has to have been in play"?

On what basis can we say for sure in play AS a character?

Bolzano said: