RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.6)2024-09-05

9 – Looking over the new rules document, which looks great so far! I noticed the rule about “For Each” which…

Question

9 – Looking over the new rules document, which looks great so far! I noticed the rule about “For Each” which I think is good to have in the rules, but I think it forces cards that seem to pretty clearly hit multiple targets down to hitting only a single target, since they don’t use “choose”. Those cards are: Bitter Rival, Eros, Hex Bolt, Luck be a Lady, and The Eye of Sauron. Should these cards be limited to a single target, or is there a way they can hit multiple targets under the new rule? I think the rule technically breaks some cards like Boom Boom that effect “each enemy” because by valid target rules they “require a target”, and by the new For Each rule that would make them effect only a “single target”. This feels like it might need a minor adjustment to the new rule, but do you have any clarity to offer in the meantime? Finally, one that showed up in my search was Brotherhood Beatdown, which could be covered by the “target” being the player, or by something that covers Hex Bolt, but could you suggest a way to make it work with the new rule?

Answer

When we added rules for “For Each” in 1.6, our intention was to clarify card effects where it was ambiguous whether “for each” included single targets or multiple (such as Falcon and Ham It Up). We recognized that there would be a selection of player cards that wouldn’t fit into this model, many of which you pointed out in your email. Bitter Rival, Eros, Hex Bolt, Luck Be A Lady, The Eye of Sauron, Boom Boom, and Brotherhood Beatdown are not intended to be resolved differently than they were before 1.6; these cards can still affect multiple targets, and you should apply The Golden Rule to them to resolve them as they are written. We would like to revisit the new rule & the way these cards are worded in a future rules reference update to eliminate as much confusion and ambiguity as possible, but for now please play these cards as they are intended.

— Alex