RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Galaxy’s Most Wanted: I’ve seen a ruling about the space stone and how it works, implying that for effects in the form “Cost ->…

Question

I’ve seen a ruling about the space stone and how it works, implying that for effects in the form “Cost -> effect 1. Effect 2” effect 2 is not dependent up the cost being paid. And I’m curious how this would apply to something like Jesse Alexander. Does Jesse allow Nova to draw a card without exhausting, for example because he is already exhausted, or cannot exhaust, and is there no limit to using this part of the ability?

Answer

When I first wrote my response about Space Stone, I gave an incorrect answer as to why it resolves the way that it does. Space Stone gets discarded whenever its Special ability resolves, but not because the ability is split up in separate sentences; it gets discarded because its “cost” of discarding a minion can be considered fulfilled even if discarding cards empties the encounter deck. All sentences after the cost arrow should be resolved as an “effect” of the “cost” being paid.
Applying this to Jesse Alexander, in order to resolve his ability in full, he will need to be exhausted as a “cost” of drawing 1 card and shuffling 1 Connection to the Worldmind into your deck.

-Alex