Expansion card questions: Firstly, I’m not sure if Spycraft triggers off revealing any encounter card but doesn’t specify from the…

If you chose to use Spycraft to prevent your nemesis minion from entering play, you still resolve the rest of The Shadow of the Past. That means you will still put your nemesis side scheme into play, and then Shadow of the Past will gain surge because your nemesis minion did not enter play. So you would end up with a side scheme and +2 extra encounter cards (+1 for Spycraft and +1 for Shadow of the Past).

Secondly, no, cards revealed from the side scheme deck are not revealed from the encounter deck.

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My apologies – I didn’t read Spycraft closely enough. I assumed it said “from the encounter deck” but it does not. So the answer is a little more complicated than my first reply.

If you chose to use Spycraft to prevent your nemesis minion from entering play, you still resolve the rest of The Shadow of the Past. That means you will still put your nemesis side scheme into play, and then Shadow of the Past will gain surge because your nemesis minion did not enter play. So you would end up with a side scheme and +2 extra encounter cards (+1 for Spycraft and +1 for Shadow of the Past).

-Caleb