I was lucky enough to have someone nab me a copy of this cool new LCG and I have only one question (so far, LOL):

1. With Infiltrate - I understand that it provides a player with the opportunity to do damage immediately after assigning the Defender but what would be the benefit of that? Can that kill off an Attacker BEFORE damage is actually assigned? If that's not the case, why would this be a useful ability?

Thanks to anyone who may have had this question answered at GenCon.

Wytefang said:

Infiltrate

Quest. Forced: At the beginning of your turn, discard the top X cards from each opponent's deck. X is the number of resource tokens on this quest.

Quest. Forced: At the beginning of your turn, place 1 resource token on this quest if a unit is questing here.

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Ok, that doesn't make sense with your question. Did you mean Counterstrike X ? Counterstrike damage is dealt before the damage assignement step, so it is able to kill off an attacker before normal combat even starts.

Wytefang said:

Marius has pretty much got it spot on. The damage is assigned and then dealt immediately with no opportunity for effects to take place between this stage. Therefore it has the potential to kill or seriously damage an attacker before there damage is even assigned.

Another important thing about counterstrike is that the damage is uncancellable. Therefore it is a good defensive ability against toughness or people with damage prevention abilities in their deck

Osiris

Ugh! Sorry, I meant to type "Counterstrike" - no clue why I used the word Infiltrate. D'oh!

Thanks for the answers, fellas.