RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Scarlet Witch: We need help with what to do in this situation. Say you play “hex bolt” and there are only 3 cards left in…

Question

We need help with what to do in this situation. Say you play “hex bolt” and there are only 3 cards left in the encounter deck. Your supposed to immediately reshuffle the encounter deck and gain an acceleration token and you can simply look at the 3 cards you discarded and check the amount of boost icons on them before reshuffling the deck and could even trigger “Scarlet witch’s Crest” to modify one before reshuffling, but what happens when you use her ability “chaos control” in this situation? Another similar situation is say you play “hex bolt” and there are only 2 cards left in the encounter deck. And you want to trigger “chaos control” on one of those cards. This is tricky.

Answer

In the situation described, you would play Hex Bolt and check the icons of the 3 cards discarded. However, you will need to shuffle the deck before resolving the remaining effects on Hex Bolt. (It’s possible to discard encounter cards from play with the effects on Hex Bolt; those cards shouldn’t be a part of the newly shuffled encounter deck.) We recommend writing down the counted boost icons before reshuffling so you remember them.
Scarlet Witch’s Crest is meant to target one card at a time, so you could exhaust it to change the counted boost icons on one of the 3 cards discarded by Hex Bolt.
Chaos Control can be used once the encounter deck has been reshuffled, and can replace the counted icons for one of the 3 cards discarded by Hex Bolt.
And if there are only 2 cards left in the encounter deck, Hex Bolt would only discard those 2 cards, and count the icons on them. The Crest and Chaos Control could still be used as described previously.

-Alex