RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Black Widow: What happens if you use Black Widow’s Attacrobatics and the Protection card Preemptive Strike at the same…

Question

What happens if you use Black Widow’s Attacrobatics and the Protection card Preemptive Strike at the same time for one boost card? Do both work, or since the first card played cancels the boosts, does the second card whiff since the boost icons are already canceled? Checking on the timing of the interrupts.

Answer

You can only resolve one of these cards per boost card. Attacrobatics says to deal damage for each boost icon “canceled this way,” so if you cancel them with Preemptive Strike the rest of Attacrobatics would do nothing. It’s the same the other way around, Preemptive Strike says “Then, deal 1 damage…” The use of the word then means you must have fully resolved the first part of the card in order to resolve the rest. If Attacrobatics canceled the boost icons, then you did not fully resolve the first part of Preemptive Strike.

-Caleb