In that case, you can return one card to your hand. The other card remains scrapped.
What happens if I play this card with 2 cards left in my deck?
[Source: WotC]
Whenever a card tells you to scrap (or reveal) cards from the top of your deck and then do something else with those cards, those cards aren’t included in the reshuffle. So you’ll scrap the top two cards, shuffle all other cards in your scrap pile into your deck, then return one or both scrapped cards to your hand, depending on what they are.
What happens if I play this card with 1 card left in my deck?
[Source: WotC]
In that case, you’ll scrap the one card and shuffle all other cards in your scrap pile into your deck. Then scrap the new top card of your deck, meaning you’ve scrapped a total of two cards. Then return one or both scrapped cards to your hand, depending on what they are.
What happens to a scrapped card that I don’t return to my hand?
[Source: WotC]
It stays in the scrap pile.
Yes. You follow the instructions of Ancient Wisdom in the order written.
This was written in Rules Roundup 10/11/19:
“I play
Brainstorm. Using my 2 actions, I play Ancient Wisdom first, then
System Reboot. I draw
Unleash Potential off of System Reboot, do I get to play it for free now?
Both Brainstorm and Ancient Wisdom resolve “top to bottom”. When you play Brainstorm, then you play Ancient Wisdom, you must play Unleash Potential at that moment. In your case, you’ve moved past Ancient Wisdom and are continuing with Brainstorm, playing System Reboot. It’s now too late to play Unleash Potential with your previous Ancient Wisdom.”
Would this rule also apply to
Tech Research? You must play a Superior upgrade after playing Tech Research or else that Tech Research is not forfeit. Example: I play Brainstorm first, then I play Tech Research, then I play Medic. Can I play
Superior Jetpack?
[Source: WotC]
Superior upgrades only check to see if you have played
Tech Research at some point previously in your turn. Therefore, there is no issue with playing other cards between Tech Research and a Superior upgrade.
Along those lines, am I limited to playing 1 Unleashed Potential per Ancient Wisdom? Am I limited to playing 1 Superior upgrade per
Tech Research?
[Source: WotC]
Your Ancient Wisdom allows you to play a single
Unleash Potential. After you’ve played
Tech Research, the number of Superior upgrades you can play is only limited by the number of upgrades you can play.
If I play Ancient Wisdom and follow it with
Unleash Potential 4 times in one game, am I allowed to add 4 copies of the same card; i.e.
Mounted Missiles, to my hand, even though under normal deck constraints a playset is 3?
[Source: WotC]
Yes, you can. Deck constraints only apply to your starting deck.
This changed in later competitive rules to state they could only pull from the sideboard, and that the only three copies applies to deck and sideboard.
If I play Ancient Wisdom and scrap two upgrades or two actions, do I just pick one to add to my hand and the other stays in the scrap pile? Or do I have to scrap an upgrade and an action to activate its effect.
[Source: WotC]
You can pick one and the other stays in the scrap pile.
Ancient Wisdom states, "You may play
Unleash Potential." Do that mean it's allowing you it as a second action for that turn? If yes, can you play two Unleash Potentials? The text doesn't specify a quantity.
[Source: WotC]
Leap of Faith gives you the ability to play a card, but that card’s requirements must still be met.
Let’s walk through this whole play. You play
Brainstorm and your first action is Ancient Wisdom. Ancient Wisdom has you scrap the top two cards of your deck and put an Action and/or Upgrade from among the scrapped cards into your hand. At this point, you can play
Unleash Potential, if it’s in your hand.
Let’s say you do. You get a card with 1 star from outside the game and put it into your hand. This may not be a great idea, because you then play the second action from Brainstorm, which is
System Reboot. You scrap your hand (including that fancy star card you just snagged) and draw 4 cards.
But instead, let’s say you don’t play Unleash Potential. That brings you to the end of Ancient Wisdom and now you System Reboot just as above.
In either case, your new hand is
Multi-Mission Gear, Brainstorm, and 2 Unleash Potentials. You’ve already played an Action this turn, so we’re guessing you’ll now play Multi-Mission Gear. This allows you to play an Action such as Brainstorm. Brainstorm will allow you to play 2 Unleash Potentials. You played Ancient Wisdom earlier in your turn, so you can get two 1-star cards from outside the game.
Would like to check with you during situation of
Brainstorm being used, the other 2 actions after Brainstorm are Ancient Wisdom and
Leap of Faith. While flipping for Leap of Faith, I somehow manage to flip 2
Unleash Potentials. Does that mean that I get to bring back two 1-star cards outside the game I owned?
[Source: WotC]
Yes, if you played the Ancient Wisdom first.
Next, is there a sequencing issue with the synergy of Ancient Wisdom and
Unleash Potential? Say while playing
Leap of Faith, I flipped Unleash Potential first and then flipped Ancient Wisdom, do I still get to bring in a 1-star card?
[Source: WotC]
No, that would not do anything.
Both
Brainstorm and Ancient Wisdom resolve “top to bottom”. When you play Brainstorm, then you play Ancient Wisdom, you must play
Unleash Potential at that moment. In your case, you’ve moved past Ancient Wisdom and are continuing with Brainstorm, playing
System Reboot. It’s now too late to play Unleash Potential with your previous Ancient Wisdom.