CoE Digest #211 Q9 - 0 resources with Longbottom Leaf

[DamienX207]

Can you play Longbottom Leaf and bring 0 resources from your sideboard?

Yes, because although the rules normally prohibit playing a short-event if doing so wouldn’t effect the board state (i.e. “just to discard it”; see Rule 5.1.2), resolving Longbottom Leaf involves 2 actions:

1. Take up to two resources from your sideboard to your play deck
2. Reshuffle

Since the text says “up to two” resources, and since you shuffle regardless of how many resources you take into the deck, you are legally allowed to choose 0 resources with Longbottom Leaf and then shuffle, meaning Longbottom Leaf did have an effect on the board state when it resolved, making this a legal play.

[Konrad Klar]

Dark Minions: An Unexpected Outpost
Rarity: Common, Precise: C2

Hazard: Short-event

Bring one hazard from your sideboard or discard pile into you play deck and shuffle (up to two if Doors of Night is in play). "...in the high regions the West Wind still blew, but down on the stones behind the fences of the Black Land the air seemed almost dead, chill and yet stifling."-LotRVI

Bring one hazard from your sideboard or discard pile into you play deck and shuffle

but not:

You may bring one hazard from your sideboard or discard pile into you play deck and shuffle

Bringing the hazard card an reshuffling are mandatory actions.

What changes:
(up to two if Doors of Night is in play)
?

Does it make a mandatory action an optional action (i.e. "up to two" includes "zero")?

I do not think so. Bringing the hazard card is still mandatory action. Optionally player may bring an additional hazard card.

BTW.
Text of remastered version at https://meccg.com/cards/ is:

Bring one hazard from your sideboard or discard pile into your play deck and shuffle. If Doors of Night is in play, you may do this twice.