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Answer 1: When creating a side battle, you get to choose the order that the characters enter the side battle. You can make your character enter first, and then your opponent's character, so that, if the evil character's numbers would cause a mutual destruction or stalemate, you would get initiative because your opponent played the last card.

There might be some nuance to this based on whether the battle is between characters that were in battle/territory, but I couldn't find anything in the REG.

Answer 2: Cards that refer to "in battle" or "opposing characters" only target cards in the current battle in which they are played. If the card said "in the field of battle" then it would refer to all battles, the main battle and/or the side battle.

Oops, I totally misread question #1.

Yes, ongoing abilities from the main battle are still active during the side battle unless something deactivates them. Notably, Cloud Moses' "while in battle" deactivates during the side battle (unless he's in it), since he's not in the current battle.

Once a side battle has begun, can I play Woes to negate the enhancement in the main battle that initiated the side battle?  I know side battles are technically a separate battle phase so I feel like the enhancement that initiated the side battle would kinda be CBI, but this definitely seems like it could be a gray area so I figured I would ask.

Quote from: TheIrishman on August 06, 2020, 11:54:39 PM

Once a side battle has begun, can I play Woes to negate the enhancement in the main battle that initiated the side battle?  I know side battles are technically a separate battle phase so I feel like the enhancement that initiated the side battle would kinda be CBI, but this definitely seems like it could be a gray area so I figured I would ask.

Yes, it would negate the side battle and you'd go back to the main battle.

Adding to this, you'd just have to make sure all abilities in the side battle resolve first before you can play Woes.  For example, two heroes are in the side battle.  Their SA's activate and resolve.  Any weapons on them also activate and resolve.  Once these abilities resolve, and nothing's pending, you can play Woes on the SB enh.