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Can I bow Fields of the Dead to produce the three gold to pay the gold cost of it's ability? Relevant text: Maho Limited: Target a Personality in a discard pile and pay 3 Gold: Create a 2F/2C/0PH Shadowlands • Undead Personality.
Thanks, Mark
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Can I bow Fields of the Dead to produce the three gold to pay the gold cost of it's ability? Relevant text: Maho Limited: Target a Personality in a discard pile and pay 3 Gold: Create a 2F/2C/0PH Shadowlands • Undead Personality.
Thanks, Mark
[Mod edit: Formatting. -ZF]
Yes.
Checking the legality of taking an action (such as the card it's on being unbowed) happens during Announcement, which is well before costs are paid (which only then would bow the Stronghold).