# Vandal Rules, section 5

Part of https://playvandal.com/rules.txt.

## 5. Play cards and make choices

Playing a creature or spell normally spends the Power cost shown in your hand. A spell resolves its effects and usually goes to Junk. A creature enters your board and runs its Boot-up when played from hand. Summoning a creature through an effect does not run its Boot-up.

Choose any required target, payment and option before confirming a play. A creature still enters if its Boot-up has no affordable legal target; otherwise, choose a legal target. If an effect asks you to select cards, finish that choice before taking another action. Different physical copies of the same card remain separate choices.

Effects resolve in order. After a card’s effects finish, the board settles: the game removes dead creatures, resolves death effects and checks hero Life totals. Further deaths are processed until none remain. An impossible part is skipped while the remaining parts continue. A condition on one effect controls that effect, rather than preventing the entire card from being played.