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    "if able"

    4 cards in SE has "if able" in their description (all of them in SF), and its not so clear for me what it means.
    Riphide - attacks oposing ally with lowest health, if able - so will he attack ally behind protector, hidden, stealthed, Eleanor princess (donīt know why her ability is not "stealth") - what exactly mean by if able here

    Cleric's Mantle - ally attack random hero if able - so again, stealted hero or hidden...?

    Boooomerang - Your hero attacks the opposing ally with the highest cost if able. - this weapon has 1 durability so why the hell this ability, or you can attack by this ability when your hero is exhausted (already attacked by previous veapon this turn?), cant see any other use of it, exept trigerin some cards by usin shadow energy (leviathan...)

    Bone Sabre - similar to Riphide - but if able means exhausted ally canīt ! so why the hell its possible. Exhausted allys are NOT ABLE to attack anything.

    This wording is definately not good... its not clear what is mean by "if able"... or it is clear, but it works different :-)
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    "if able"

    "If able" in all these situations means that the ally must have nothing stopping them from attacking (disabled, frozen, can't attack) and the victim must be able to be attacked (so no stealth or can't be attacked). So X attacks Y only if there is nothing preventing the attack happening by X or Y.

    Hidden and protector are irrelevant in these situations because they are specifically about preventing targeting yet all these cards that mention "if able" do not require targeting.

    Finally, exhausted allies/heroes can't be used to launch an attack as a player action, but they can be made to attack via effects such as all these cards. Unofficially, we call these "auto-attacks", whereas a normal attack is a "direct attack". An ally only gets exhausted by a direct attack and is only able to do a direct attack if not already exhausted.

    Hope that helps. This should all be in the rule book, so we will update it.

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