Ironheart/Zzzax mod: If I may, I would like to see if I have an accurate understanding of how resources are generated, paid,…

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If I may, I would like to see if I have an accurate understanding of how resources are generated, paid, overpaid, and spent. My understanding is that when you generate resources to pay a cost you may generate more resources than are required. The resources needed to pay the cost are then considered “paid”, with any excess being considered to be “overpaid”. The excess is then lost. But, that all the resources, both those paid and overpaid, are considered “spent”. Is this accurate?

Also, how does the Requirement keyword interact with this? For example, if I have Helicarrier in play, and I exhaust it, for it’s ability, and then play the Spider Man: Peter Parker basic ally (Sinister Motives 49), do I still need to generate, and spend, one of each resource type to meet the Requirement? Are all of these resources considered paid? Or are some overpaid? Alternatively, can the Requirement not be met if Helicarrier is used? Or can cost reduction effects not be used to bring a card’s resource cost below it’s Requirement condition?

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