Rulings: Groundfighting

Ankha wrote:

I think we must distinguish three cases:
A) cards that *actively* restricts your strike choice: Immortal Grapple, Drawing Out the Beast when you have a known weapon equiped, Thoughts Betrayed (restricts to non-card strikes). They usually state "minion can't <do something related to a strike or a source of strike>". GF works.
B) cards that *indirectly*, *maybe* restricts (or not) your strike choice: buring/preventing the use of an Eye of Hazimel, destroying a skill card on you, burning blood from you (Blood to Water, Weather Control) that would allow you to pay a strike cost (you can still regain blood and strike the way you want) GF doesn't work.
C) Cards that remove the ability to strike at all (Lapse, Thoughts Betrayed). They're not restricting your strike choice. If you could strike, you could still strike like you want. (Against Lapse, you can for instance gain additionnal strike and strike the way you want.) GF doesn't work.

In case B, we could add Blood to Water: by burning blood on the vampire before the strikes are chosen, you *may* restrict his strike choice (for example the vampire can't pay the blood cost of a *possible* strike). It's not the way it's supposed to work from the designer's intent.

(Note that GF could *maybe* cancel Blood to Water if played against a minion that has a build-in strike that costs blood, such as The unnamed). => No, see case B above.

To make it simple: if it's 100% sure the card restricts your strike choice, you can play GF. Otherwise, you can't.