My question references both Darkness Blade and Double Gale Fist I believe. Lets say the senario is your opponant has shooting capora, chinese boxing and chesters in play (2-3-4 diff foundations). If the chesters is already commited, can you commit the next highest diff foundation, or would you need to retarget the same commited chesters if possible? I know you cannot commit an already commited foundation, but for searching purposes will double gale fist find the boxing and shooting?

It would commit the next highest diffculty card.

Also I'm sure the player's charcter will have a difficulty of 6 ( LOL Cody LOL ) so hence shouldn't double gale/ darkness blade search to commit the charcter providing it's ready?

I hope this helps anyhow...

Cheers

Hanzo

Double Gale Fist states "highest difficulty foundation", so it cannot commit characters.

Darkness Blade, however, will indeed go after their character first (most of the time; there aren't many 6+ difficulty foundations/assets). From there, though...yeah, they will always attempt to commit the highest difficulty *ready* foundation in the opponent's staging area.

However, the fuzzy area for me comes when there are responses to these abilities. Example: Darkness Blade's effect is floating around, and you play a foundation-based enhance. Will the opponent have a chance to respond with a Chester's Backing or other negation card prior to DBlade committing something (applicable in the likely event that Chester's is the highest difficulty card in their staging area at the time; DBlade may commit it prior to the trigger window opening for it).

darkness blade will resolve before chester's can respond. they have the same trigger "when [you] play an ability", so the floating one takes precedence.

and yeah, if they re-targeted the same card over and over, their abilities would really be *quite* useless - especially darkness blade, which would practically become a rather elaborate way to say "commit your opponent's character next time you play an enhance"