In Digest 14 it was ruled:You may bring Aragorn II into play with Strider's company, removing Strider from the game and automatically transferring all cards on Strider to Aragorn II
Now, if this is done after Strider is assigned a strike from an attack, Aragorn will not face the strike. It will have lost its target, and thus be considered successful, but not against Aragorn. Nice way to avoid a Rain Drake!The replacement may be done any time during your turn as per the logic of A Chance Meeting.
Also, you could pull the switcheroo in response to the revealing of an on-guard card that targets Strider. Since Aragorn was not in play during the mh-phase, he cannot legally be the target of that card, and it will fizzle.
These are both nice tricks, but I wonder whether the original ruling is perhaps incorrect. After all, Strider is from MEBA, and by MELE ICE had figured out that ACM was ambiguous....
Any thoughts?