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Falling rain dojo Text Dojo • Singular Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Reaction: Before Focus Effects resolve, if your Duelist has a lower duel stat than the Personality facing him: Give your Duelist +1 to his duel stat until the duel ends.
Does falling rain dojo take into account the focus cards of each player of just simply the duel stat? There is a little confusion since focus values in the duel no longer add to the personalities stat correct?
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Falling rain dojo Text Dojo • Singular Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Reaction: Before Focus Effects resolve, if your Duelist has a lower duel stat than the Personality facing him: Give your Duelist +1 to his duel stat until the duel ends.
Does falling rain dojo take into account the focus cards of each player of just simply the duel stat? There is a little confusion since focus values in the duel no longer add to the personalities stat correct?
Falling Rain Dojo checks the duel stat of each Personality, not the focus values of the focused cards.
See Challenges and Duels: Each Personality adds his or her duel stat to the total modified Focus Value of all cards in his or her focusing area. This does not add to the Personality's stat itself.
In any case, the total score for each isn't calculated until Step G, whereas Falling Rain Dojo's ability triggers before Step E.