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A player, 11 July 2008
According to this ruling: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=68820#p889532 I can use Purge to take an additional limited action before the battle starts. If I use this to play desperate gambit will it destroy the two personalities present?
Desperate Gambit: Limited: Dishonor one of your target Samurai Personalities: Target another player's Personality with equal or lower Chi. If either target assigns opposing the other this turn, destroy them both.
It seems like it would because Ambush specifically "assigns" both personalities, and they have assigned opposing each other. Now if Desperate Gambit, said "the next time...." But it doesn't, so what do we think? Thanks
A player, 11 July 2008
I can use Purge to take an additional limited action before the battle starts. If I use this to play desperate gambit will it destroy the two personalities present?
No. Ambush did assign both Personalities but Desperate Gambit's effect is not retroactive, thus it does not look back in the past to see whether either target assigned opposing the other since the start of turn, otherwise its text would explicitly refer to assignments done earlier this turn.