RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.6)2025-08-07

Hi there! I have a question related to Spider-man (Peter Parker)’s Spider-sense ability and if Peter Parker…

Question

Hi there! I have a question related to Spider-man (Peter Parker)’s Spider-sense ability and if Peter Parker still gets a card draw when an attack is directed to an ally via a Forced Interrupt. In this example we can use either the the ‘Morlock’ ally (from Morlock Siege encounter set) or ‘Snitches Get Stitches’ Attachment (From Sinister Motives Campaign). Below are some points we have considered:
(1) Forced Interrupt is before Interrupt, which means that the Villain will change their attack to Venom prior to Spiderman’s ability.
(2) The “you” in Spider-man’s ability is specifically referencing the Spiderman character and not the Spiderman player.
(3) It has been ruled that “when an enemy attacks you” = “when an enemy initiates an attack against you”
(4) [To my understanding], that while a defender can change, the “you” does not change as far as who the attack was initiated against [e.g. Powerful Punch and Magik’s Colossus ally]. Please let us know if any of the points above is incorrectly misconstrued. Essentially, does Spider-man still draw a card via his Spider-sense ability when it might get intercepted by a forced response which routes the target of an enemy’s attack to an ally?

Answer

Spider-Man’s Spider-Sense ability depends on if the villain’s attack initiated against him; if a Forced Interrupt causes the villain’s attack to initiate against a different character, Spider-Man’s ability can’t be triggered. Both the Morlock ally and Snitches Get Stitches cause the villain to initiate an attack against a different character, so Spider-Man cannot trigger his Spider-Sense ability.

— Alex