RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.5)2024-05-10

173 – Check our understanding. Based on the timing section in the rules, The amplify icon and constant…

Question

173 – Check our understanding. Based on the timing section in the rules, The amplify icon and constant abilities come before interrupts. Interrupts come before boost abilities. So with cards like Attacrobatics, Foiled and Preemptive Strike, do we understand correctly that they… -Can cancel boost icons gained from the amplify icon or a constant ability that increases the number of boost icons on that card like for example with the next evolution side scheme. -Cannot cancel boost icons gained from boost abilities like for example with the unstable sentience treachery.
And in the case of a boost card that has both an ability that gains boost icons and at least one printed boost icon like the I see you treachery, you can cancel the printed boost icon and any gained from an amplify icon or constant ability but could not cancel the additional boost gained if a goblin minion was engaged with you in that example. Do we have all that right?

Answer

You are correct. When a boost card is flipped faceup during step 3.a. of an Enemy Attack activation, the amplify icon and any constant abilities affecting that card resolve first, then any interrupts to the boost card turning faceup. During step 3.b. is when “Boost” effects resolve, which is after the point in which boost icons are canceled. So, a card like Attacrobatics can cancel the boost icons printed on a card, plus icons it gains via amplify or constant abilities; but it doesn’t cancel any boost icons given to that card via a “Boost” effect.

— Alex