Question: Gene Bound Psi Weaver is on the field with 3 Hp. Amoung the heroes is Ra with a Flame Barrier. At the end of the villain turn, Psi Weaver deals 2 psychic damage to every hero. The first time each turn a target deals Ra damage, Ra deals 2 fire damage to that target. Since "simulaniously" in this game realy means "Do this one at a time until everything affected by me is affected by me and btw you can choose the order in which this happens", if I target Ra first, does he do his counter attack damage via Flame Barrier first, then do I continue dealing psychic damage to every hero?
Question 2: Same as above, only the Psi Wever is at 2 HP. When Psi weaver hits everything for damage, and I choose to have him hit Ra first, and the Flame Barrier will do enough damage to kill the Psi weaver, since the Psi weaver is no longer alive, does the Psi Weaver still do damage to every hero, or did I just save everyone else?
When a trigger condition is met, the triggered effect happens immediatly. So for Q1, yes, Ra would deal his counter attack damage before Psi Weaver continued pounding away.
Given the answer to Q1, if Ras counter damage is enough to kill the Psi Weaver, then it is dead and stops dealing damage. So yes, you have just saved everyone!
Thanks! I should get Spiff to update that document of his with this tidbit. See, last night I was going solo against Voss and this did come up but i wasn't sure how to handlie it so to make things simple i just had everyone take it.
That ruling is covered by the FAQ, in the Timing section, where it mentions that if an effect is happening and then something occurs which removes the card the effect is from, then the rest of the effect doesn't happen. It's just not called out specifically for Psi Weaver or any single card.
An example of when this kind of thing is very useful - Expatriette and Ra versus Gloomweaver. Expatriette had out Hairtrigger Reflexes. Ra had Flame Barrier. There was a +1 damage buff in play - I think we were Galvanised by Legacy. Ra probably had his Staff out too, but I can't remember now. So, Gloomy plays a Cultist, who gets instantly shot for two points of damage. The Cultist attacks us, hitting Ra first. Ra's Flame Barrier goes off and finishes off the Cultist, who comes back as a Zombie...which gets insta-killed by Expatriette. Okay so Ra took more damage than anyone else during that game, but we never came anywhere near losing (hey, it was Gloomweaver, after all ;)). That was a very fun game! :D