RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.6)2024-10-24

30 – I have a question about whether thwart and attack labeled abilities have any particular requirements…

Question

30 – I have a question about whether thwart and attack labeled abilities have any particular requirements for scheme or enemy targets. For example, can I play Covert Ops just to confuse the villain, even if there is no valid scheme target? Such as, if there is no threat on any scheme, or if the main scheme has threat but I’m engaged with a patrol minion. Or, on the attack side are we allowed to trigger attacrobatics when engaged with a guard minion just to cancel boost icons?

Answer

You can play Covert Ops as long as one of the sentences has a valid target, so yes, you can play it to confuse the villain and not remove any threat, and are still considered to have thwarted. Similarly, you can trigger Attacrobatics to cancel boost icons even if you can’t damage the villain with it. You are considered to have “attacked” because it’s an attack-labeled ability, but there’s no attacked enemy in this case because Guard prevented you from attacking the villain. (So an “after you attack” ability could trigger, but nothing that affects “the attacked enemy”.)

— Alex