Can someone explain this in better detail for me please?

[Oni Shawe]

How exactly does the upgrade Sponsor card work where you get to choose whether to sell a card for 4 money or -2 something?

What does the -2 mean? Where does it go and how does it apply to something?

[Tisaac]

How exactly does the upgrade Sponsor card work where you get to choose whether to sell a card for 4 money or -2 something?

What does the -2 mean? Where does it go and how does it apply to something?

-2 strength. Or in other word, you boost your strength by 2.
So if you play the card at strength 4 and discard a card, it would be similar to having played the card at strength 6.

[Oni Shawe]

Im still not sure I understand lol....What does it matter if you play a card at strength 2 if its already played at 4?

[Notello]

The sponsor card "Foreign Institute" needs strength 6, so you can play it when your action-card "sponsor" is on 5 (if it is already turned to the red side which adds 1 strength).
If it is on position (=strength) 3, you need 2 X-tokens to play it - or you discard 1 card from your hand.

In one of my running games the sponsor was on position 5 (and turned to the red side). I had two sponsor cards (for strength 5 and 6) and I could play both of them with 3 X-tokens and 1 discarded card: 5 (position) + 1 (red side) + 3 (X-tokens) + 2 (discarded card) = strength 11. Quite a powerful ability.

[Tisaac]

Im still not sure I understand lol....What does it matter if you play a card at strength 2 if its already played at 4?

I am talking about the action card, not the sponsor card. It boosts the strength of the action card, allowing for more actions

[Monkeyunit]

It works as described

It "boost" the strenght of the card by giving it -2
Which is essentially the same as giving the action +2.

I'm not sure why they decided to word it this way.

[ceejaex]

I think the wording helps to alleviate confusion around being able to use it to break at a higher level. It doesn't increase the strength of the sponsor action, it reduces the cost of one sponsor card played with the action. Clearly still some confusion, but I would guess that's the reason.

[danielvictor]

Yes,that makes perfect sense.You don't want players to be able to trigger breaks ridiculously early.That would force other players to discard cards or lose x2 actions,when that shouldn't have happened.

[danielvictor]

...that's why they gave discounts on the cost of the sponsorship cards,instead of simply increasing the power of the sponsorship actions.

[Monkeyunit]

Oh right, should have thought of that.