Shadowcat: Let’s say I am playing Shadowcat and I am in Solid form. I play Powerful Punch to interrupt the villain’s…

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Let’s say I am playing Shadowcat and I am in Solid form. I play Powerful Punch to interrupt the villain’s attack against me. At which points in the enemy attack steps do I resolve interactions for Powerful Punch (after playing it) since it’s both an attack and a defense? Below is how I believe I would resolve relevant triggers. 1) Powerful Punch’s damage resolves. 2) “After attacks” condition becomes true. 3)I choose to trigger her Solid form in response to attacking with Powerful Punch. 4) Shadowcat is now in Phased form. 5) Having played Powerful Punch, Shadowcat is defending the attack. Is this correct? And, since Shadowcat is now defending an attack, the villain’s attack proceeds. Let’s say, as an example, it proceeds like this: Step 1: boost card Step 2: a defender is chosen or not. (Shadowcat is already considered to be defending through Powerful Punch being a defense event, I choose not to exhaust to apply my DEF.) Step 3: flip boost card- Check boost ability- Increase villain’s ATK by the amount of boost icons- Discard the boost card Step 4: deal damage. (Shadowcat takes no damage because she is defending in Phased form, having played Powerful Punch.) Step 5: the villain’s attack completes. After the attack completes, the ‘After you defend’ check occurs and I am forced to trigger Phased’s response and return to Solid Mass form. I can trigger Indomitable (if a boost ability or treachery exhausted me), Electrostatic armor, and Unflappable. Is this correct?

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