because the search feature sucks... If you have cards in your cardpool(that don't match resources with willful), and your opponent hacks your check I was told that since willful clears itself, that I could respond with willful, even if the other cards dont match. is that true?

Nooo

If you have an empty card pool, here's how thing can go.

You attempt to play a Seal of Cessation on the Death symbol. Your opponent hates Seals, so they hack the check. You make your check, then you can react with Willfull, place it in your card pool, then resolve its effects - discarding Willfull. Seal enters your card pool and you continue your turn.

Now, if you had dropped that Seal, then played an Inhuman Perception and your opponent hacked THAT, then you're up a river without a paddle, because you can't play Willfull through the resource restriction.

Not quite

When you're playing a card it's in the transition zone, until it passes/fails, it's not in the card pool.

Resource restriction for playing cards only checks the card pool, and not the transition zone.

So you could Off Symbol Willful.

However there's a catch. If there is some effect that prevents cards from being discarded from the card pool, and you willful to prevent your first card from failing, and then willful gets stuck in your card pool along with the card it's protecting, your screwed.

It is a situation where you can have different symbols in your card pool, but it effectively ends you being able to play any further cards into your card pool.

Part 2 of this question:

If you respond with Willful, and your oponent negates it via KFT or Inhuman Perception, will it modify the difficulty of the card you were originally attempting to play, or is the difficulty locked when you announce the intent of playing a card?

Antigoth said:

ok, so if I have 2 life cards in my card pool, I attempt to play a 3rd life card, my opponent hacks my check, I can respond with willful (not matching life on the other 2 cards already in my card pool) because it clears itself? unless I'm misunderstanding what you put.

No, because Willful does not match any symbols with the cards ALREADY in the card pool.

It just doesn't matter if it doesn't match symbols with the card you're trying to play, if the card pool is empty.

Nubian_God said:

If the control check has already been made, the difficulty is set and will not change. In Willful's case, it responds after the check, so it will not alter the difficulty.

MegaGeese said:

**STAMP**

If your first card is life, and it's being hacked, and you're about to fail it, and there are no other cards in the card pool, then you could legally attempt willful.

Or if the first two cards in your card pool also shared 2 symbols with Willful.

Otherwise, no.

At what point does Willful discard itself from the card pool? Is it after the check is made and whatever card/ ability you are playing is successful? Or does it resolve all of it's abilities at once, meaning it's never in the card pool at the same time as the card you make the check successful for?

It works like this:

You attempt to play rejection, it enters the transition zone.

I hax it with BRT.

You resolve BRT, rejection still lives in the transition zone, you make the check and you fail rejection.

Now the window opens for willful, you play it, it enters the transition zone, you check successfully, Willful now enters the card pool.

Resolve Willful's text. The check for rejection is successful. rejection enters the card pool to the right of Willful.

Move onto the last sentence of Willful's ability, it discards itself from the card pool.

The resource restriction for playing a card only applies at the time you announce the card to be played.

Keep in mind that if something prevents the willful from being discarded, you will no longer be able to play cards until you some how remove the rejection or the willful from your card pool.

So, similarly, if I'm running death Zi Mei with Fury of the Ancients... I can negate a BRT on said Fury with Preventing the Curse, ending up with both in my card pool, and then just can't play any cards for the rest of the turn? (which generally doesn't happen after a Fury anyway) The multiple would still work though right?