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Expansion card questions: I’m confused about how a couple recent rulings can both be true, regarding Exploit Weakness. In this recent…

Question

I’m confused about how a couple recent rulings can both be true, regarding Exploit Weakness. In this recent ruling https://hallofheroeslcg.com/latest-ffg-rulings/#195, you indicated that exploit weakness only works when the target would “take any amount of damage” (so it does nothing when the target takes no damage). But in this ruling, https://hallofheroeslcg.com/latest-ffg-rulings/#191, you indicated that exploit weakness only works on the attack, not when the target takes an amount of damage (so if the target takes 3 damage twice it only increases one of them). Which is correct, does the target take an extra damage when it is attacked, or does it take an extra damage when it would take any amount of damage from an attack?

Answer

Exploit Weakness is essentially saying that the attached enemy will take 1 additional damage from each attack. The attack against that enemy has to deal 1 or more damage to it for Exploit Weakness to have an effect.
The second ruling was made based on the fact that Ricochet Beam is making a single attack, and Exploit Weakness increases the damage attached enemy takes “from each attack” by 1. Whether Ricochet Beam deals 3 damage once, or 3 damage twice, is irrelevant; only one attack is being made, and Exploit Weakness only affects the enemy once. This would be different if the Ricochet Beam specifically made multiple attacks, like Dance of Death · MarvelCDB does. This would also be different if Exploit Weakness increased the damage that events dealt, like Embiggen! · MarvelCDB does.
This would be different if the Ricochet Beam specifically made multiple attacks, like Dance of Death · MarvelCDB does.
This would also be different if Exploit Weakness increased the damage that events dealt, like Embiggen! · MarvelCDB does.

-Alex