There are also individual play areas - illustrated well by how it’s harder for Chokepoint to steal most Links than other kinds of equipment. When destroyed, many Links leave the villain or environment play area, not a hero play area, so Kinetic Looter can’t grab them.
Except Kinetic Looter says nothing about the hero play area, it just says "leaves play", so it doesn't matter where it currently is if it's a hero card leaving play… unless the wording has been changed since we saw the proofs (judging by the OP, no).
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And looking at it we really should have seen that the way her (flipped) End of Turn destruction effect and Kinetic Looter interacted.
So does this imply that Surprise Shopping Trip doesn't trigger on one-shots? The trigger is on when "a card enters play". That would make it much less annoying/powerful.
I think that wording is just meant to capture a card being played normally or put into play from another affect. So this ruling should not prevent that damage.
Yeah, that wording shouldn't matter. Otherwise, Omnitron-X and Super Scientific Tachyon would have issues putting their one-shots into play.
Err…right then, not Kinetic Looter - the other one. Chokepoint definitely had some card that destroyed equipment and referred to cards leaving the hero play area while I had a Cortex Hyperstimulator in front of her.
I personally find it incredibly confusing that if I "Play" a one-shot card, It is not considered to be "in my play area". Especially since the rules are clear on the fact that until it is resolved, it remains on the table in front of you before being moved to the trash.
It seems a simpler change would be for Kinetic Looter to read "The first time a hero card other than a one-shot leaves play each turn..." if that is the intention.
The mental gymnastics required to interact with one-shots are amazing.
They enter play, but are not in play after they enter play, nor do they leave play.
Basically we have a ruling that card effects will never count One-Shot cards as cards in play.
Because that makes a lot more sense than saying that One Shot cards that enter play never enter play.