What does the (5+) on Dancing Battle Kabuki mean? I've seen it on a couple other cards as well, but I wasn't sure what it meant.

When you declare your intention to pay the ability, you pay the cost (the 5+ part) by making a control check against a difficulty of 5. You may commit foundations and use abilities to modify the check as you please.

Any card with (X+) as a part of the cost means you make a control check against the difficulty listed (that being X) in order to pay its cost.

Just a small clarification, if you're committing foundations to pass a check you aren't modifying it.

Other than that, stamp for MG.

No, I mean it can be modified, as you can give it a bonus or a penalty =/

"You may commit foundations and use abilities to modify the check as you please."

It's only a little ambiguous but I thought I'd just add the clarification. ^^;

Tagrineth said:

Thanks for the quick responses. I think this last answer was the best way to sum it up.

These new checks say number+ and you can commit foundations to reach the check. What about for example the check on Flowing Gale Hook? It just says 5. Can i commit foundations to pass it? And for Grappling for Glory?

FGH uses the word "difficulty". It says make a check against a difficulty of 5, so since you have a difficulty you're checking against, you may commit foundations to pass that check.

Without the word difficulty, there's no pass/fail situation so committing foundations to pass may not happen, though abilities like Blood Runs True may still be used in such cases because they're just looking for any control check to be made.

Flowing Gale Hook? Yes, because the check is made against a difficulty. Any checks made against a difficulty can be "helped" (staying away from the word modify lol) by committing foundations, and you can also modify it.

Grappling For Glory? NO, because you're not making a control check against any difficulty. When a card asks you to simply make a control check, you can MODIFY it, but you cannot commit foundations for it.

edit: Officially ninja'd by Tag lol

So if I could reiterate - Dancing Battle Kabuki (difficulty of '0') - First F (5+): Draw a card.

I play the card into my card pool, do a control check for the '0' difficulty, put it in my staging area. Then if I want to use the cards ability I would need to do another control check to use this? or just commit foundations?

Committing foundations is nowhere in the cost for Dancing Battle Kabuki. Once it's in your staging area, to play its First F (5+): cost, you'd declare you're playing the Form, and make a control check at 5 difficulty. If it passes, whether or not you commit anything to pass the check, you successfully pay the cost, and resolve the effect, in this case, of drawing 1 card.