Regicide Inferno

Yes, you may yield by skipping directly to Step 4a, but you cannot yield if every other player yielded on their previous turn. If you can neither play a card nor yield, everyone loses (p. 2).

Yes. The class ability is ignored, but the card’s strength still contributes to the attack’s damage (p. 3).

Discard cards one at a time until their combined strength meets or exceeds the damage; you may not discard more after satisfying it. If you can’t discard enough, the game is lost, though you may feign death by discarding your full hand if you’re at your hand limit (pp. 2–3).

Combine cards of the same strength, excluding animal companions, with a total strength of 12 or less. Resolve each class ability using the attack’s total strength (p. 3).

An animal companion may be played alone or paired with one other card, but not with a jester; it can’t be part of a kinfolk attack. Its strength is 1, and its class ability applies (pp. 1, 3).

No. At the start of Step 4a, reduce the enemy’s strength by the attack strength, and paladin reductions accumulate and remain until that enemy is defeated (p. 2).