Elemental Storm Question

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The question is: Does Elemental Storm continue if the Ennead Member with the lowest health dies mid attack?

 

Example: There are three members of the Ennead out, and Set is the lowest HP Villian target with 2HP. Elemental Storm is played which says:

"The Villain Target with the Lowest HP deals each Hero Target 1 Lightning Damage, 1 Fire Damage and 1 Cold Damage."

Ra is out with Flame Barrier, Set hits him for 1 (+1 Nemisis) Lightning, Ra hits him back with Flame barrier Incapacitating Set.

 

What happens to the rest of the Elemental Storm attack?

1. It continues damaging all heroes with Set as the source

2. It continues damaging all heroes with the now lowest HP Ennead as the source

3. It stops dealing damage as the source (Set) can no longer deal damage.

 

I played it as 3 since that's the way I would play it for a Hero, if a Hero played a one shot that hit all targets in Chairman's deck but after killing the Thief, the Operative's retaliation damage destoryed the Hero the damage would end immediately. This makes sense to me, just want to confirm what would be the correct way?

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If an effect like that is interrupted by its source being destroyed, then the effect stops, so I'd say number three is correct - the first option can't be true as Set is no longer around to deal the damage (just as a hero character would have to stop doing something if incapped halfway through doing it). The second option I don't think is true because you'd already decided on Set as the source, and I'm pretty sure these things don't change once selected. So option three would be what I'd go for. It's like how the Visionary can get out of damaging herself with Wrest the Mind if the target dies before she takes the feedback damage (ie she redirects its own damage onto itself) - target is destroyed, therefore Wrest is also destroyed before you got to the "hit yourself" bit, therefore it doesn't happen :D.

3

This has been asked before, we've not even got a consensus from the forumities, so until "official word" comes down I say play as you want.

4

We have official rulings that:

1. If a target dealing damage is incapacitated it stops doing what it was doing.

2. Once selected, the lowest/highest HP target doesn't reselect during that action.

I think that makes it pretty clear that the damage stops once Set is incapped.

5

I want to argue mainly because I would really like to keep my shiny forum badge.

But there's little doubt in my mind Skippy is correct here. That's how I would play it.

6

Just to make the last logical step explicit:

2a: Point 2 suggests that once the source of an action is selected, it also would not reselect during that action. 

This has not been officially ruled to be the case yet, but I agree that it seems most consistent with prior rulings.

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Good clarification, we have ring that targets don't reselect once selected, I am assuming sources work the same way.