Primal Instincts & strike w/ maneuver

Haze wrote:

even though I've never seen anyone try to play Primal Instincts, LSJ's ruling makes no sense. why shouldn't "1.4. The Golden Rule for Cards" apply when a card says to choose a new strike?

Choosing a "new" strike doesn't mean it can be "different".
You can choose a strike, then choose the same strike anew.

Haze wrote:

except LSJ said you can't do that either, not even if you had a 2nd copy of the strike card in hand. you MUST choose the "old" original strike, even though it's gone and cancelled.

Yeah, I know that. I was generally speaking.

Haze wrote:

this is the exact opposite of what Primal Instinct tells you to do, so it's a ridiculous ruling.

No, because Primal Instinct and the rules don't contradict themselves on this point.

"New" in the Primal Instinct cardtext must be understood as "choose a strike again". If this isn't clear, the ruling makes it clear.
And the rules force you to use a strike bound to a previously used maneuver.

Since you must choose a strike again but have no available strike, you can't strike.

I think you would like Primal Instinct to be "better" but this has nothing to do with plain rules.