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Kull Wahad: official-source update
Checked 2026-09-07 for classic GF9 Dune and CHOAM & Richese; preview policy updated 30 September 2026. This supplements CHOAM_KULL_DESIGN.md and the Kull section of CHOAM_REMAINING_RULES.md. The source audit itself did not change runtime behavior; the later opt-in development implementation follows the explicit selections below.
User-selected preview timing — 30 September 2026
The user selected Different Karama: reserve the interrupted physical card; a distinct eligible Karama may counter Kull before the phase restriction takes effect. The interrupted card cannot serve both the original attempt and its counter. They selected Before conversion for Bene Gesserit's Worthless-as-Karama: intercept while the card is still held; a successful Kull retains the unplayed card. They selected Defer interaction for a winning overbid made unpayable by loss of its only Karama payment. That composition must remain guarded, not restart bidding, cap hidden reaction-dependent bids, grant a free card or fabricate funding.
These are explicit provisional product interpretations, not a publisher clarification. They supersede the older unanswered counter/BG proposals below; full CHOAM starts remain gated.
Result and provenance
No additional verified publisher or designer ruling was located that settles Kull counter priority, Bene Gesserit conversion timing, interrupted-card custody, or an unfunded winning overbid. This is a bounded retrieval result, not proof that no clarification exists.
The CHOAM & Richese rulebook, printed p. 7 states:
Prevent a player from playing a Karama card this phase as they attempt to do so.
The surrounding rule makes Kull a CHOAM Worthless-card special discard. Printed p. 12 separately permits Karama prevention of CHOAM's special-effect Worthless discard during that phase. Together these establish a reaction, a restriction on the attempting player, and a possible counter-interaction; they do not specify its sequence. Publisher-indexed text was retrieved again and agrees with the publisher-authored PDF mirrored locally at /tmp/dune-rules/choam-lelekan-mirror.pdf and its extracted text. The mirror is supplementary access, not a separate authority.
The November 2020 FAQ, printed p. 7 remains the latest applicable general FAQ successfully verified in this search. It establishes ordinary one-use cancellation, cancellation of alliance abilities, and discard of a BG Worthless card when its Karama substitution is prevented. It also permits overbidding based on holding Karama, without requiring that card to be spent if another player wins. It predates CHOAM and does not discuss a held card made unplayable by Kull. Do not extend its ordinary cancellation duration over Kull's later, specific phase restriction.
The current Future Pastimes Dune page offers a FAQ download. Following that link on this date resolves specifically to GF9's April 2020 FAQ URL, then to a general Battlefront Group page which returns a challenge. A current designer webpage therefore does not establish a current FAQ revision. It does not supersede November's later general rulings. The designer's expansion overview and CHOAM/Richese page supplied no additional Kull ruling.
Targeted official-domain and named-designer searches also surfaced a BGG discussion about whether Kull discards the interrupted Karama. Only its listing was accessible; no author-verified ruling was retrieved. Its title is not evidence of an answer. Tournament rules, fan compilations and rules from the distinct 2021 movie game were excluded.
Implementable scope and remaining interpretation
| Area | Publisher-supported scope | Selected preview policy and remaining source limit |
|---|---|---|
| Trigger and expiry | React to an attempted Karama play; restrict that player for the current phase. The text does not ban ownership, transfers or a non-activation discard. | Applying the broad trigger to ordinary and implemented special activations is a textual inference, not a new enumerated FAQ ruling. Restrict the card's activating player, not a shipment beneficiary. |
| Counter priority | The expansion explicitly makes CHOAM's Worthless effect preventable, but supplies no nested response order. | Different Karama is selected: reserve the original physical card; resolve an eligible distinct counter before the phase ban becomes active. The original cannot pay twice. Existing response ownership governs other eligible responders; this is product policy, not newly located publisher authority. |
| BG substitution and custody | Ordinary prevention of BG conversion discards the Worthless card. The base rulebook, printed p. 14 discards a Karama after play. | Before conversion is selected: successful Kull retains the still-unplayed printed Karama or BG Worthless card and leaves an attempted special once-use unspent. If Kull is declined or countered, the original attempt resumes, including the separate ordinary BG conversion/discard rules. |
| Blocked overbids | Holding permission and actual Karama play are distinct in the FAQ. | Defer interaction is selected for a winning overbid whose only Karama payment would become unplayable. Preflight the unsupported composition before costs or an unfinishable transaction. Do not restart the auction, award a free card, invent funding or add a hidden-Kull-dependent bid cap. |
| Countered CHOAM discard | The expansion supplies a phase-scoped prevention provision. | Preserve native prevention-of-discard semantics: retain the selected Kull cost and phase-block its effect. The wider official scope across different physical copies or Worthless names remains unclarified; the preview does not resolve it. |
The counter/BG choices are no longer unanswered user questions. They are approved preview policy with an unresolved publisher-source distinction. Unfunded-auction recovery was deliberately not selected. Full CHOAM, combined-module and publication acceptance therefore remain gated; an opt-in Kull preview is not official rules certification.
Validated intents, actor/phase restrictions, exact physical-card binding, safe continuation storage, private projections and duplicate-action protection must preserve that selected interpretation. A pending Kull declaration does not itself activate the phase restriction: only a successfully settled effect does. Decline or prevention resumes the reserved original intent once, not by replaying a public client action or restoring a whole Game snapshot.
An additional engineering admission boundary is the existing pure post-cost feasibility proof for ordinary cancellation under a live Truthtrance battle/shipment promise. An unprovable suffix is refused privately before the offer or cost, while proven supported cancellations remain available. This bounded preview exclusion does not establish a publisher prohibition or settle additional rule interpretation.
The runtime fence is before bid commitment, not only before payment: non-CHOAM unfunded Karama-dependent bids are privately unavailable in this explicit preview. The former late guard accepted such a bid and then could not settle it. The fence is independent of hidden Kull, does not change numeric UI bid limits or non-preview rules, and does not select an auction recovery. CHOAM self-activation stays outside interception and can use its ordinary Karama payment. Kull costs also receive a cloned post-cost own-promise check; counters are projected only when their same authoritative proof is available.
Validation: reviewed both prior documents, publisher text and the local rulebook extract; repeated focused official searches; verified the designer FAQ redirect. No gameplay tests were run for this documentation-only update.