if you are using Your Mind is Known to Me as a block after playing as a response, it stays in your cardpool... does it retain that second ability if you still have it be the ONLY card in your cardpool if your opponent chooses to attack again?

yes i believe you are correct sir.

I just need an 'official' telling me the answer, I would assume so but only the 'official' word can say so

"As long as this is the only card in your card pool"

If it's the only card in the card pool, then yes. You can use it to block as many times as they attack you and you have no other cards in your card pool.

This has been ruled previously. Also note that for some strange reason (don't ask it's complicated, and I've never recieved a satisfactory explanation) it can both be the only card in your card pool AND it isn't in your card pool for purposes of determining progressive difficulty AT THE SAME TIME.

This truely is Schodinger's card.

aslum said:

...because it makes even more sense for the card to allow you to play it as a block, leave your card pool temporarily as part of the process of playing it, then deem itself unplayable as a block and thus... does what? eh

Exactly, it makes more sense if you play it FROM YOUR CARD POOL, as though it were in your hand.

TBH (honest) though I'd prefer to see the new rules before having a discussion of this...

aslum said:

Yes... Yes you would. Because I think it makes this conversation kinda ... moot.

aslum said:

This is exactly how it works. When you play a card, it is not in your card pool, not until AFTER you pass the cc.

Much like say you play an attack first form, check a 1, react with instant hell murder, at this point, you have an empty card pool, if you pass the check for IHM, and you pass the check for the attack, the IHM hits the card pool before the attack.

so then the attack gets a +1 difficulty?

the difficulty would of already been determined. Ill elaborate.

You announce to attempt to play feline spike first form. You make a control check against printed + progressive ( 7 + 0 )and check a 1. You react with Instant hell murder and attempt to play it. You make another check and your card pool is still empty at this point. You flip over a 6. Instant hell murder goes to your card pool and you resolve its effects. You know have an option of commiting foundations to pass your first feline spike.

Hope this clears it up

If you've already made the control check, the difficulty is already set and won't change.