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Must a card carry out its command when that command can change the game state?
Several posters quote the same Codex rule on mandatory effects, and the designer has not contradicted it.
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Yes, unless the text says 'may'. A command must be carried out as far as possible, and if an effect can change the game state, it must. So Death 2 cannot target an empty line while a line with a 1 or 2 exists, Water 3 must pick a line with a 2 when one exists, and a shift the card requires is mandatory. Each sentence is carried out separately.