I'm sure I've just overlooked some stuff in the timing structure, and not sure if a similar situation has been put before the board, but here goes:

Say I'm playing LS, and I have deployed Yoda to the board. I decide to skip conflict, as I want those tasty force icons to swing the balance in my favor. After I decide to forgo conflict and am about to move into the force step, my opponent decides to get squirlley and pop two force chokes on Yoda, killing him. I have a "Return of the Jedi" event in hand. Assuming I have the resources available at that time, can I play the event to put Yoda back in play in time to commit him to the force, or do I have to wait for my next deployment phase? I suspect that I can, but I would like a clarification, just in case I'm wrong.

You alternate playing actions which the event is starting with the active player until noone has any to play.  Look at the timing structure in the back of the rule book.. 

The thing is he would have had to do it at the end of conflict.  So before your force phase ends the DS says wait I play force choke. and if you don't play an action he plays another then you play return of the jedi and then the DS player is sad. 

LORDs_diakonos said:

thanks. I figured as much, but I'm at work, without my rulebook with me, and the scenario popped into my head, so I wanted to make sure.

You are correct Doma. Force choke is 1 per turn. 

Doma0997 said:

wait… so he made an illegal play? Oh, I must rub this in his face later. :)

If he had vader in play he could do 2 damage with 1 force choke.

SeerMagic said:

Right, but he didn't. I also didn't catch, at the time, that this was an illegal play for him to use two on the same turn. I've seen this evilness used with dark precog (Vader does damage), followed by force choke for one damage, followed by another Vader trigger to take out a 3 DC character.

stormwolf27 said:

Which is also wouldn't work.* Vader's ability is similarly restricted to once per turn. "Reaction: After you play a [Sith] event card, deal 1 damage to a target unit. (Limit once per turn.)"

* Maybe this was just another illegal play you noticed after the fact. But if not, wanted to point out that that combo isn't possible.

alpha5099 said:

quite right. quite right. there have been a lot of those in our meta in the last few weeks, as most of our hardcore gamers are not yet familiar enough with the cards to make those distinctions on the fly. Thanks for that, though. I will have to bring these things up if I observe them again.