Marvel Champions Codex

RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.5)2023-09-21

92 – I have a question about Marvel Champions and timing triggers in general. Assuming I’m playing a deck…

⚠ This ruling is from an older rules version (Hall of Heroes (rules 1.5)) and might be outdated.

Question

92 – I have a question about Marvel Champions and timing triggers in general. Assuming I’m playing a deck with the new cards Digging Deep and White Fox, which have a response to being discarded from the top of the deck. Now I play the card Call For Aid, which says: Hero Action: Discard cards from the top of your deck until you discard an AVENGER ally, then add that ally to your hand. How is the timing handled? In the rules reference is a section (Abilities), where it is stated, that Abilities are handled sentence by sentence.

1. Is it in general possible to play/use Interrupts and Responses while executing a sentence, interrupting the sentence while doing so? 2. What would happen in the described situation, since I discard cards within a sentence, but could react with Responses (White Fox, Digging Deep) to the discard of a specific card? 3. Same question to the first Response on The Painted Lady from the Domino Hero Set? 4. What happens if the last card in the player deck (without finding an Avenger ally) is Digging Deep? Would the player deck get reshuffled but then the Response on Digging Deep still be playable, finding the card in the deck and bringing it to my hand? 5. When opens the Response window to “Discard card from top of the deck”? – As soon as I discard ONE card – or after I have discarded all cards, either emptying the player deck or finding an Avenger Ally?

Answer

  1. Generally speaking, interrupts, well, “interrupt” sequences, but responses do not. I don’t have an immediate interrupt example for this, but if you have one in mind, feel free to ask about it.
  2. Responses to a discard will wait until the entire discard is complete—whether a target of the discard is found, or the deck is emptied by the discard. Say you Call for Aid and discard White Fox during the process—whenever you finish the discard, that’s when you resolve White Fox’s Response ability.
  3. The Response on The Painted Lady is treated the same as the Response on White Fox; once the discard is complete, you can trigger the Response.
  4. Yes; technically speaking, if Digging Deep is the last card discarded, the deck should be shuffled before Digging Deep’s Response resolves. (That said, you have our permission to set Digging Deep aside before shuffling your deck, and add Digging Deep to your hand after shuffling.)
  5. The window occurs after all cards are discarded.

— Alex