Base of the Mountain

Base of the Mountain’s first ability triggers when it becomes a defending card on the combat chain. When the triggered effect resolves, you choose and banish any number of action cards from your hand. Then you will add each of those cards to the current chain link as defending cards. There is no priority between banishing cards and adding them to the chain link.

You may choose to banish action cards without a defense property (e.g. Talisman of Recompense, etc.) and add it onto the active chain link as a defending card when resolving the triggered effect.

You may choose to banish no cards from your hand.

If you banish multiple action cards from your hand, you choose the order they are added to the chain link.

You cannot put the chosen card onto the active chain link as a defending card if an effect is active in the game that would prevent that card from defending. For example, if the current attack has overpower and no defending cards, when you resolve this triggered effect and banish 2 action cards from hand, one of the cards is added to the chain link and the other one remains in the banished zone.

Adding cards to the chain link as defending cards through Base of the Mountain’s effect is not considered to be defending from hand for the purposes of effects like dominate.

Base of the Mountain’s second ability is a property-static ability that defines its defense value at all times based on the number of action cards defending on the active chain link. If there are no defending action cards or the combat chain is not open, then its is 0.