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If my opponent plays Way of the Crane, I refuse the duel, but do not want to go home and play a Ring of Earth, do I successfully refuse the duel and stay in the battle?
I've had players claiming it works when they do it and others claiming it doesn't when I do it.
If my opponent plays Way of the Crane, I refuse the duel, but do not want to go home and play a Ring of Earth, do I successfully refuse the duel and stay in the battle?
I've had players claiming it works when they do it and others claiming it doesn't when I do it.
You have the sequence slightly wrong; you would choose to Interrupt with the Ring of Earth after the opponent targeted your Personality, but before the action's effects would take place (including your option to refuse). Interrupts are only take at the point where the colon appears in an action.
However, you don't want to do that, because if the movement is negated, the refusal does not happen. The word "to" before some effects mean that the effects that precede the "to" must happen in order for the other effects to happen.