Does the ability activate if the character become incapped?
once you get incapped all your power cards go back into your hand, so bitter spiral would not trigger if Operative is incapped.
So she blocked partial dmg. But the remaining dmg was enough to incap. The card stats whenever so the effect happens after the block. The wraith says that her activates after the resolve of an attack. Why do they differ?
Because The Wraith doesn't require you to specifically block dice. It triggers whether the attack misses due to range, it hits, it gets completely blocked, or deals full damage. After the attack goes, it's done.
The Operative only triggers if damage is blocked. Not the dice that don't make range, and it doesn't trigger if the whole attack goes through. The timing is the same, since blocking dice and taking damage are simultaneous, but the trigger is more specific.
That's the difference.
I've heard of times when someone hit someone like Baron blade and he was able to reassign some of the dice, and he incapped the person attacking him but because enough damage got through he was also incapped. I think it was ruled that way too but not sure where.
Koga is right.
Blocking dice happen before damage is assigned.
So:
With Blade's redistributor and Synaptic Interruption when dice are blocked you immediately reassign the blocked dice, the targets of those dice roll defense and then all targets lose HP.
This means that unlike the Card Game, in tactics two characters can be incapped by redirecting damage to each other.
Bitter Spiral uses the same wording, the first time dice are blocked.
So you would roll your defense, block dice, then roll for Bitter Spiral's attack. Anyone targetted by bitter spiral would roll dice to defend, block dice, and then all targets would take damage.
Operative cannot be attacked when she is incapped, but she would not be incapped until after the effects of Bitter Spiral resolve, because she doesn't take damage until then.