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This weekend I played a Sinister Syndicate deck vs a Fearsome 5 deck.It was my initiative and during the combat phase.My opponent activated Dr Light to stun a character.On the chain I activated Shocker to exhaust Dr Light before his effect took place,but my opponent told me that Drlights effect would still go through.My question is why wasn't he exhausted through the chain before his power took effect?
When you place an effect on the chain, part of playing that effect is to choose your targets and pay all costs; your opponent has already paid the cost of exhausting Dr. Light before he passes priority to you.
Dr. Light's effect won't stun any characters until it resolves from the chain, but the cost has already been paid when the effect is placed on the chain.
Your mixing things up slightly. You do not declare that your going to use a characters ability/abilities like you do for combat, you just play effects while you have the priority. Once an effect is on the chain, removing the source does not remove the effect. Hence, in your example, your opponent plays dr lights effect, exhausting him to pay for the effect and it goes on the chain, you cannot then respond (assuming they pass priority) by exhausting dr light as he is already exhausted.
If he was attacking, they have to declare the attack, then you can play effects to exhaust/stun them to make the proposed attack illegal (ei not all the proposed attackers can attack).
Your opponent has already played the plot twist, and so he will not lose any endurance from Prime Sentinels. The fact that his plot twist has not yet resolved doesn't change this fact.
As a sidenote on Prime Sentinels---a plot twist's Ongoing text does not use the chain, and is effective as soon as the plot twist has been turned face-up. So your opponent can not get around Prime Sentinel's endurance loss by playing a plot twist "in response"* to your flipping it.
Compare this to how Swing Into Action works; this is a non-ongoing plot twist, and so uses the chain like normal. It increases your opponents' cost to play plot twists this turn; this means that it will not affect plot twists which are already on the chain when you use Swing Into Action, as they have already been played. On the other side of things, Swing Into Action doesn't work it's magic until it has resolved from the chain, and so your opponent's can play plot twists at regular cost while Swing Into Action is still on the chain.
*The shorthands of playing things "in response" or "chaining" effects have been known to mislead people; in some cases, they are used inconsistently, and in others they just make it easier to overlook how the chain and priority work. Most often, the terms mean that we are playing some effect while another effect is on the chain.
Swing into Action cannot stop a card from being playing if it is played after a plot twist.
In the scenario you present, a plot twist has already been played, so Swing into Action will do nothing to stop it. The effect is already on the chain.