Fall of the Jedi says "After your draw phase begins, place 1 card from your hand on the bottom of your deck"

When does this actually happen - before I draw my cards, or after? I assume it would be BEFORE - but the way the card is worded, I'm not so sure. It be clearer if it said something like 'before you draw' or 'at the beginning of your draw phase' - the use of the word "after" makes it sound like after you've drawn your cards.

I would have thought it means as soon as the phase begins, ie. before you draw. What is more important with this card is that is this card that you put onto the bottom of your deck in addition to the card you can discard or does it mean that the discarded card goes to the bottom of your command deck instead of the discard pile?

Wheelz said:

Until such time as the people at FFG say otherwise, we have been playing this effect as follows:

1) draw phase begins

     a) after draw phase begins responses trigger (fall of the jedi… one or both if you have them in play)… at this time you would put one, or two 

             (depending on the number of "fall"s you have in play) on the bottom of your deck

2) player has choice to discard one card from their hand

3) player draws or discards till they reach their reserve limit.

Are you sure it is optional?  It looks like it is mandatory because it doesnt say may.  I am not familiar with FFG templating or maybe I missed something in the rules but in my opinion its mandatory.

The fact that it doesn't say "forced response" is what makes it an optional trigger. You can choose to activate or not activate responses and interrupts as long as the forced keyword isn't included in it.

It is optional because it is a "reaction," in bold with a colon, which means the player can choose whether or not to trigger it.  By contrast, a "forced reaction" is mandatory and must be triggered when its conditions are met.  See p. 25 of the rules

For the reasons explained above, yes I'm sure it's optional.  For an example of a non-optional reaction (ie forced reaction), see the Rancor.

Ok, so i missed something in the rules.  I am from MTG so I am use to optional abilities saying may and if it doesnt say may then there is no option.

Yea being a player of the old Decipher game I thought you HAD to put a card back. It is nice to know I'm wrong. Thank you!

Hey cooleo- Good to see that I'm not the only SWCCG player (red_5ccg on the PC boards) to pick up this game.  It's a ton of fun so far!  :-)

dbmeboy said:

Oh, I played SWCCG for years (quit aroubd when Death Star II came out) - IMO, still the most elegant game mechanic I have ever come across.

It is a great game.  Luckily, I feel that the SWLCG is a different enough style of game that I can easily enjoy playing both games.  Having 2 fun Star Wars card games (and a good miniatures game) will never be a bad thing. :-)

dbmeboy said:

The X-Wing game is also good.  If you're not really into miniatures games it might not be your thing, but if you like them and you like Star Wars then you should definitely enjoy it.