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Both the card and the rules say "Play this card with an Artichoke." They do not say *what* happens to the artichoke, i.e., that it is discarded, not composted. Because the rules are ambiguous, how was it decided that corn discards artichokes instead of composting them?

It is not ambiguous. Cards are composted only when the card in effect says so.
Corn must be PLAYED with an artichoke but it never mentions 'compost the artichoke played with the corn' or something similar.
So played artichoke will be discarded normally. Think the artichoke in hand as a cost for playing a corn.

ufm wrote: ↑02 September 2021, 11:29 It is not ambiguous. Cards are composted only when the card in effect says so.
Corn must be PLAYED with an artichoke but it never mentions 'compost the artichoke played with the corn' or something similar.
So played artichoke will be discarded normally. Think the artichoke in hand as a cost for playing a corn.

I don't see the harm in explicitly saying "discard an artichoke" because "playing" an artichoke has no effect whereas playing a garden card does.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑03 September 2021, 05:37

ufm wrote: ↑02 September 2021, 11:29 It is not ambiguous. Cards are composted only when the card in effect says so.
Corn must be PLAYED with an artichoke but it never mentions 'compost the artichoke played with the corn' or something similar.
So played artichoke will be discarded normally. Think the artichoke in hand as a cost for playing a corn.

I don't see the harm in explicitly saying "discard an artichoke" because "playing" an artichoke has no effect whereas playing a garden card does.

But if it simply said”discard an artichoke” you might think that you could play the corn card even if you didn’t have an artichoke in your hand.

Which of course is not the case.

The way it’s worded saying that you have to play it with an artichoke makes it clear that you also need to have an artichoke in your hand if you want to use the corn