Horned King / Witches of Morva clarification — who chooses, and do you have to pay the full penalty?
Quick rules clarification for The Witches of Morva. The card says,
“When The Witches of Morva are played, the Horned King must immediately either lose 2 Power or discard two cards from his hand.”
We ran into two questions: who actually gets to choose which penalty happens, the Horned King player or the player who Fated them? And does the chosen penalty have to be fully possible?
My girlfriend was playing Horned King and only had 1 Power when I played this. She chose the “lose 2 Power” option, lost the 1 Power she had, and avoided having to discard two cards. Is that legal, or since she couldn’t actually lose the full 2 Power, would she have had to choose the discard-two-cards option instead, assuming she had at least two cards? Basically, does “lose 2 Power” mean you must actually be able to lose 2, or can you choose it even when you only have 0–1 Power and just lose whatever you have?