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.

The hero with the highest d may suffer 1 f to look at 1 random card from the overlord's hand, or suffer 2 h to force the overlord to discard 1 random card.