Electro-Pulse Explosive and Combat Stance

Apologies if this has been covered somewhere already …

If The Wraith has Combat Stance (The first time The Wraith is dealt damage by a target each turn, The Wraith deals that target 2 melee damage) and an Electro-Pulse Explosive (At the start of the villain turn, this card deals each hero target X lightning damage, where x = the current HP of this card) goes off, can the players choose to target The Wraith first such that Combat Stance would cause the Electro-pulse explosive to lose HP before the other heroes were targeted by it, thus doing the other heroes less damage?

Yes. Ditto for Synaptic Interruption, Flame Barrier, or other similar cards.