At what point does Flowing Strikes get classified as having been resolved? is it after the second attack is blocked/deals damage, or is it as soon as the second attack is played?

Not Entirely sure what your asking for here... so here goes.

Flowing strikes reads R: after your attack played as a reversal deals damage..... So the trigger is you playing an attack as a reversal and it doing damage, you would then play Flowing strikes. make the control check for it, assuming there are no other responses, and it is not canceled, you may then play a second Reversal (Following all resitrictions and paying all costs). This additional reversal gains a floating effect which states if it deals damage discard all cards from your card pool.

SO... Flowing strikes resolves after you make the controll check to play it, and it is not canceled. The effect created by flowing strikes resolves after the reversal you play with its ability does damage.

Hope that helps

Umigame said:

**Stamp**

ok, so then you cant have an attack played as a reversal deal damage, respond, hit with a second reversal, clear then respond with a second flowing strikes (in an empty card pool) to the original reversal having delt damage?

if you play multiple flowing strikes, once one of their reversals deals damage they will ALL (even once not yet resolved) be discarded from card pool.

So basically you only play 1...unless you think your opponent will block it for sure, then maybe you may want to play more than 1...however then your opponent will probably just eat the first one, lol.

but doesnt the first flowing strikes resolve and clear your card pool before we go back to the trigger where you can play the second one?

I mean sure you can play it after the second one deals damage but thats silly because it would just get discarded

Not quite. When you play Flowing Strikes, you play an attack, and then set up a floating effect that's waiting for that attack to deal damage.

However, that attack doesn't begin to resolve immediately -- it waits for the response triggers to close before it starts to resolve.

Therefore, you have to play all your Strikes before you even begin to resolve one of the attacks. So if your first Flowing Strike hits, then the clear-your-pool effect goes off and aborts the other attacks you may have played.

Unless of course there is an effect that prevents cards from being removed from card pools in effect.

but isnt the same with turnabout? you cant play them all at the same time you can only play them one at a time and then wait till the trigger comes back after it resolves to play the second?

Da_ghetto_gamer said:

Correct.

Antigoth said:

So then the second attack gets to resolve before the window for the original reversal having delt damage closes so you could use a second flowing strikes?

kiit said:

Correct