Horrid Cacophony deals damage?

[ketigid]

[quote=““Horrid Cacophony””]
One-shot
Destroy (H) hero ongoing cards.
Deal each non-villain target (H) minus 2 sonic damage.
[/quote]

Usually, a source is always associated with a damage being dealt, even for one-shots. However, Horrid Cacophony did not state the source of its damage dealt. Even Falling Statuary says “This card deals the target…”.

So, back to the question, what/who is the source of the damage written on Horrid Cacophony?

This may have some impact on the game.

[TheJayMann]

My guess would either be damage is dealt by The Matriarch (as she is always guarenteed to be an available target), or the damage comes from nothing, like a good deal of environment cards from the core set. Though, in general, it appears that damage listed on villain cards tend to come from villain targets.

[Spiff]

That’s always been my interpretation, that the damage comes from Matriarch.

[ketigid]

@""TheJayMann""

My guess would either be damage is dealt by The Matriarch (as she is always guarenteed to be an available target), or the damage comes from nothing, like a good deal of environment cards from the core set. Though, in general, it appears that damage listed on villain cards tend to come from villain targets.

I beg to differ on this. To my best knowledge, nearly all damage dealt by the core environments states “This card deals”, so it is clear who/what the source of the damage is. Sometimes, it is from a target, such as the T-rex. Sometimes, it is from a non-target, such as Volcanic Eruption.

The only exception I’m aware of is Kraken, which says “At the end of the environment turn, deal the non-environment target with the lowest hp 5 melee damage.” For Kraken, I believe it should say “this card” as well but was mistakenly left out. If it is indeed a typo, someone should quickly inform GtG to add that to the 2nd edition before sending for printing!

[AnachronismAxe]

@""ketigid""

@TheJayMann

My guess would either be damage is dealt by The Matriarch (as she is always guarenteed to be an available target), or the damage comes from nothing, like a good deal of environment cards from the core set. Though, in general, it appears that damage listed on villain cards tend to come from villain targets.

I beg to differ on this. To my best knowledge, nearly all damage dealt by the core environments states “This card deals”, so it is clear who/what the source of the damage is. Sometimes, it is from a target, such as the T-rex. Sometimes, it is from a non-target, such as Volcanic Eruption.

The only exception I’m aware of is Kraken, which says “At the end of the environment turn, deal the non-environment target with the lowest hp 5 melee damage.” For Kraken, I believe it should say “this card” as well but was mistakenly left out. If it is indeed a typo, someone should quickly inform GtG to add that to the 2nd edition before sending for printing!

cough I think a little fairy may have gotten your message across.

[Matchstickman]

All the cards were the damage comes from villain are things like punches, a gun being wielded by the villain, drugs coursing through their system etc; thematically the damage from Horrid Cacophony comes from all the birds making noise at the same time (and breaking the hero’s concentration, removing ongoings), this suggests a source other than the villain, I suspect the “This card” clause is missing from it.

[dpt]

Sorry to revive an old thread here...  Is errata in order?  It matters if Tachyon is in the game whether it should be "this card" or "The Matriarch".

[dypaca]

The source is the Matriarch.  This was answered by Christopher here: https://greaterthangames.com/comment/9613#comment-9613 in a thread called 'What's dealing the damage?'

[dpt]

Thanks!  Sorry to have brought this up again.