2 questions about adaptive strategy (102, 5 of 6): does using this card on a target of opportunity just give you the fate card effect, or does it also add 2 force icons to your edge battle? It says "as if the card were in your edge stack", so I could see either way. And question #2 along the same lines: If you have a Secret Informant (18, 2 of 6) involved in the conflict, and use 1 target of opportunity AND an Adaptive strategy, does she trigger twice or just once? Informant read "resolve the effects of EACH fate card in your edge stack." So, does the Strategy make a copy of the targeted card or is it just like the informant where it just triggers twice? If it is just a trigger twice effect, why the wording change? Why not just have it read like the Informant? Just curious? Any help is appreciated.

-3dfiend

I dont think it counts the Force icons as well since it only reads that you resolve the effect of said card again ("as if the card were in your edge stack"). Counting "Force Pips" to an edge stack is no real effect as long as i am not mistaken

To your second question: That's a tough one, i wondered that as well...

Effects can only be text, not force icons or any other part of a card.

Re Secret Informant, it doesn't "copy" the card, it just does the effect (text) again. So if you played a ToO, SI would place a second damage, then Adaptive Strategy could place a third. AS can react to either the original effect or the "repeated" effect that SI provides, but not both given it's an event's reaction to a single specific trigger. If you had AS trigger on the original effect, SI still only works on the original (and not the AS repeater effect) because AS is not adding another "fate card to your edge stack" for SI to work off. Hope that makes sense. Either way, max 3.

To the last question, SI came out in core when the template was still in a fluid state. If it came out now, it would be done in a reaction format because the effect has a clear timing point (which is one of the ways that the correct form of an effect is judged), just like Adaptive Strategy has.