Marvel Champions Codex

RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Mutant Genesis: I’m a bit confused by what you mean by the Forced Response taking “precedence”. Clea and Regroup are both…

⚠ This ruling is from an older rules version (Hall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)) and might be outdated.

Question

I’m a bit confused by what you mean by the Forced Response taking “precedence”. Clea and Regroup are both interrupts: When [the ally] is defeated. Which should come in timing priority before Operation Zero Tolerance’s Forced Response: After an enemy attacks and defeats an ally. Are you meaning something other than the forced response having timing priority? Does the scheme find the ally wherever they end up, and put them under the scheme, and so ends up taking “precedence” by being the last ability resolved?

Answer

  • The short of it is that Operation Zero Tolerance doesn’t care where the ally is when it triggers, whether that ally is in your discard pile, hand, or deck.
  • The Forced Response’s trigger of “after an enemy attacks and defeats an ally” would happen after that ally has left play, which is a part of being defeated. OZT needs to be able to find that ally in the discard pile (or other out-of-play area) to function at all.

-Alex