1. Pick a character, tactic, item, or location card in your hand. Make sure you have sufficient resource icons in play to meet the card’s threshold. (You can only play characters, items, and locations on your turn.)
2. Put the card onto the playing surface face-up. This card is being played.
3. Pay all costs for the card. You always pay a card’s numeric cost last, after it has been fully determined. (See “Numeric Cost” in the “Common Terms” section.) The card is considered to have been played at this time, so anything that triggers when the card is played would happen now.
4. Wait for your opponent to respond to the card. (See “Responding to Your Opponent”)
5. If the card is a character, item, or location put it into play. If the card is a tactic, follow all its instructions then put it into your discard pile.