I have a question about the defintion of discard on the back of the Shattered Timelines rule book.
"When a card is dicarded ... Cards can be discarded from a player's hand, from the deck, or from being revealed, but not from play."
So one of the implied rules of card games is if a card says discard but doesn't indicate a source, then you discard from your hand. However the defintion above could call this implied rule into question, as it may mean that when a card says "discard" you have the option of discarding from your hand or discarding from your deck.
This would change a lot of characters like The Scholar's form cards.
Can anyone confirm this? If this isn't the case, then clarifying the glossary defintion might be useful.
I believe unless otherwise stated you always discard from your hand. The definition of discard includes "from the deck" and "from being revealed" because there are specific actions that make you discard the top card of your deck, or any number of revealed cards. If the definition didn't include these possibilities, then one could argue that such actions could not be performed as they wouldn't satisfy the definition of "discard".
I don't believe there has ever been an official clarification on this as I don't believe it has come up before, I am just going off what the intent of the discard actions seems to be.
There are situations where the rules for a card/villain say to do things like "reveal until X something-or-other cards are found. Put them into play. Discard the other revealed cards".
In general, however, the standard definition of discard is used: Cards go from hand to trash.
It's an unfortunately ambiguous glossary definition. It would be better if it explicitly said something like "unless otherwise stated, 'to discard' means to move a card from hand to trash".