ISD attacks a Corellian Corvette at long range

ISD rolls 4 red dice and gets: 1 accuracy, 2 hits, 1 hit and 1 crit. He targets the Corvettes Brace

Corvette player spends his Evade on the accuracy, nullifying the accuracy effect on the dice, then braces, then redirects

Is this right?

A few players were asking if the accuracy could be targeted by the evade in this way or if it is considered as "spent" before the defence token phase?

The accuracy is already spent before the Spend Defense Tokens step, so no, you can't evade the accuracy.

3. Resolve Attack Effects:
The attacker can resolve attack effects as described below:
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◊ Spend Accuracy Icons: The attacker can spend one or more of its accuracy icons to choose the same number of the defender’s defense tokens. The chosen tokens cannot be spent during this attack.

4. Spend Defense Tokens:
The defender can spend one or more of its defense tokens.

What Ard said.

Another way to look at it: when the attacker spends the accuracy icon, he removes that die from the attack pool, so it can no longer be affected by Evade (which forces the attacker to reroll or remove a die in the attack pool ).

Also, Corvettes should not have brace tokens. Are you sure you're doing that right ? Corvettes (I'm assuming CR90 here?) have 1 redirect and 2 evades.

when the attacker spends the accuracy icon, he removes that die from the attack pool

Hmm... as an academic point: I know that's how we've interpreted it, but do you actually spend the die ? There's currently no reason that you would ever want to evade an accuracy that's been spent, but is the die itself spent, or just the icon?

Good god, the implications for Veteran Gunners...

Nevermind, found it.

Spend: When a die or die icon is spent, remove that die from the attack pool.

You spend the die.

You spend the die.

Sort of: you spend the icon . The distinction is academic, though: by the definition of "spend", the die is removed from the dice pool if an icon on it is spent.

The distinction is academic, though:

Sort of. ( )

Precision Strike is the one other time we have the distinction, and it is stated differently there... Mostly that you spend a Die with the Hit Icon... So you are spending the whole Die if it is a Double-Hit or a Hit/Crit...

of course, it is academic, because there is no die that shares an ACC symbol with any other symbol in the official game.

Silly, silly Yellow, Green and Orange Dice made up by other people are oft silly in my opinion for that very reason.

when the attacker spends the accuracy icon, he removes that die from the attack pool

Hmm... as an academic point: I know that's how we've interpreted it, but do you actually spend the die ? There's currently no reason that you would ever want to evade an accuracy that's been spent, but is the die itself spent, or just the icon?

Good god, the implications for Veteran Gunners...

Nevermind, found it.

Spend: When a die or die icon is spent, remove that die from the attack pool.

Indeed - I should've quoted the source. My apologies.

The distinction is academic, though:

Precision Strike is the one other time we have the distinction, and it is stated differently there... Mostly that you spend a Die with the Hit Icon... So you are spending the whole Die if it is a Double-Hit or a Hit/Crit...

It's stated differently, but spending the acc is functionally identical within the current scope of the game, because part of spending the icon is removing the die from the pool.

Spend: When a die or die icon is spent, remove that die from the attack pool.

Which means PS could have been written as "spend a hit icon" and it would've functioned identically. The only difference would be if they later release a card that is triggered by " if you spent a die ."