139 – Had an interesting situation come up in a game recently in which one of my friends was playing X-23.…

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139 – Had an interesting situation come up in a game recently in which one of my friends was playing X-23. He had Honey Badger in play, with several upgrades attached to her. X-23’s obligation, Self-Isolation, was drawn and he placed Honey Badger facedown under the obligation and discarded all the upgrades that were attached. I think we played this correctly, but upon reviewing the rules, in RRG v1.5, after the game, I couldn’t find anything that indicated if this was the correct behaviour. The rules about attaching cards facedown, and the facedown sides of identities, and other double-sided cards, explicitly state that those are out of play, but I couldn’t see anything for “place”, and nothing regarding moving an in play faceup card to a facedown state. Is there an implicit general rule that says facedown cards are out-of-play? Or an implicit rule that says moving a faceup card to facedown also moves it out-of-play?

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— Alex