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If I choose not to attach, what happens? Can I opt not to attach the item and take it into my hand?
Bitter Lies Student Battle/Open: Remove this card from the game: Search your discard pile, then your Fate deck, for a non-Unique Weapon. You may attach it to your target Personality.
If I choose not to attach, what happens? Can I opt not to attach the item and take it into my hand?
Bitter Lies Student Battle/Open: Remove this card from the game: Search your discard pile, then your Fate deck, for a non-Unique Weapon. You may attach it to your target Personality.
The attachment is optional, so if you choose not attach it, it returns whence it came.
See Glossary, Search: All effects that search decks for cards also shuffle the deck after the found card (if any) leaves the deck. ... If a card is found, but is not required to leave the deck after due to some optional effect, the deck and found card are shuffled after the optional effect resolves.