RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.7)2026-01-17

Recently, I played a game with the Winter Soldier, facing off against the Black Widow villain from the…

Question

Recently, I played a game with the Winter Soldier, facing off against the Black Widow villain from the Agents of SHIELD expansion, and found myself in a weird situation. It went like this: BW attacks, I play Arm Block. I resolve BW’s interrupt because Arm Block is an attack. BW flips A.I.M. Grunt. What happens here?
Does A.I.M. Grunt take the damage from Arm Block, and the whole ‘cancel the damage from the enemy’s attack’ segment of the card just fails, or does the ‘defense’ part of the card still apply to BW’s attack, while the ‘attack’ part of the card damages the Grunt?

Answer

The sequence of events is this:

Black Widow initiates her attack
Winter Solider plays Arm Block, an attack/defense event
Black Widow’s interrupt triggers, revealing AIM Grunt
AIM Grunt is now being “attacked” by Arm Block, so it takes the 3 damage
Arm Block can then prevent damage from Black Widow’s attack, because her attack triggered the “When an enemy attacks” condition on Arm Block, and “prevent all damage from that enemy’s attack” can only refer to that same attack made by Black Widow, since AIM Grunt is not making an attack.

— Alex