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Hulk: Question about Hulk’s Crushing Blow. The card says you can “only spend strength resources to pay for this…

Question

Question about Hulk’s Crushing Blow. The card says you can “only spend strength resources to pay for this card.” How absolute is that? Can you reduce the cost of the card with Helicarrier to 0, and still play it?

Answer

The “You can only spend [physical] resources to pay for this card” ability applies only when actual resources are being spent for Crushing Blow. So yes, if you can reduce the resource cost of Crushing Blow to 0 (such as through Helicarrier), then you effectively get around his.

At the same time, if Crushing Blow’s resource cost is ever increased, you would also have to spend physical resources for that extra cost.

— Boggs