Ranks are optional. Edges and handicaps aren't (though you don't have to use them). Hence when you discuss edges you do not automatically refer to ranks, or indeed at all. The comment that the Actor can only ever lose no more than his bid is incorrect.
If the winner of an exchange has an applicable edge, then it is added to the stake, regardless of whether the winner was the actor or not. That was always the interpretation of the rule during playtest, and no one had any problems with that, so i don't see why the rules should be differently interpreted now.
-- - Mikael Raaterova [.sig omitted on legal advice]
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