RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.5)2023-10-12

97 – Its been ruled that if a minion with Quickstrike engages Black Widow then Quickstrike initiates an…

Question

97 – Its been ruled that if a minion with Quickstrike engages Black Widow then Quickstrike initiates an attack but the response on Widows bite can resolve before the attack. If I were to trigger widows bite after on a minion with Quickstrike when would I resolve the responses Blackwidow or Syth Suit which both response to triggers a preparation card. Do these responses trigger before the attack resolves, immediately after I trigger widows bite or do I need to wait until after the attack.

Answer

Before the attack resolves, in response to the new triggering condition. The sequence of events is this:

The Quickstrike minion engages Black Widow.
Quickstrike resolves, telling the minion to initiate an attack. The attack will resolve as soon as possible.
The opportunity to resolve the Response on Widow’s Bite occurs, which must be between the attack initiation and resolution. Resolving this Response creates a new triggering condition, in which Black Widow triggered the ability of a Preparation card.
Both Black Widow’s hero ability and Synth-Suit have Responses that can be triggered as a result of the aforementioned triggering condition; her controller decides the order in which to resolve them.
After all of these steps, if the minion is still in play, its attack that was initiated resolves now. It does not lose Stunned since it initiated its attack before receiving the status from Widow’s Bite.

— Alex