Sail into the West

Sail into the West Rulings

• Jun 16, 2023

  Abilities that trigger "whenever players finish voting" trigger once all players have voted or once all secret votes are revealed, but they won't go on the stack until the current spell or ability finishes resolving.

• Jun 16, 2023

  Each player must vote for one of the available options. They can't abstain.

• Jun 16, 2023

  If embark gets more votes or the vote is tied, players decide and announce in turn order, starting with the active player, whether or not they want to discard their hand. Then, all players who chose to do so discard their hands and draw seven cards. Players later in the turn order will know if players before them are discarding, but they don't get to see what those players will discard to help them decide whether to discard themselves.

• Jun 16, 2023

  If return gets more votes, first the active player chooses which cards they'll return from their graveyard to their hand, then each other player in turn order does the same, knowing choices made before their choice. Then all those cards are returned from graveyards to hands simultaneously.

• Jun 16, 2023

  In the case of non-secret voting, votes are cast in turn order, and each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.