The heroes choose a mage and place this card in his play area. He may discard this card after rolling defense dice to add a number of Shields to his results equal to his c.

Hero players choose one hero to test c. If he passes, he may look at the overlord's hand of cards and choose 1 to discard.

Each hero tests a and suffers 1 f if he fails. If all heroes pass, each hero draws 1 Search Card.