RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.5)2024-02-15

148 – When you cancel an enemy attack, for example with grasping tendrils but another effect triggered…

Question

148 – When you cancel an enemy attack, for example with grasping tendrils but another effect triggered before you could play it like the forced interrupt on the charge attachment (because grasping tendrils doesn’t have “would”), does charge still get discarded? Does the hidden in the clutter attachment cause an infinite loop loss if your only character has retaliate? And finally, the crisis icon entry in the rules reference ends with “by any player”, does this mean that threat can be removed by the game from an encounter card like for whom the bell tolls?

Answer

Yes; if Rhino attacks with Charge attached, its Forced Interrupt triggers; if the attack is then canceled via Grasping Tendrils, the attack is still considered to “end” and Charge is discarded.
No; once Hidden in the Clutter has 3+ damage on it, the attached enemy initiates an attack (meaning the attack is evident and will resolve in the next available game step), then Hidden in the Clutter is discarded, and then the standard steps of the attack resolve. The “then” is moreso meant to check if the attached villain was stunned when it attempted to attack; if stunned replaced the activation, Hidden in the Clutter remains attached.
Yes; encounter cards can remove threat from schemes while a crisis icon is in play.

— Alex