I have a quick question about the timing on spite's damage from the safe house when you flip him.
We had 4 victims (I think) in the safe house and 4 victims outside the safe house.
Spite was low on hps. Low enough that this timing question meant he either died or lived from flipping his card.
When Spite's turn began he had 5 drugs in play, so he flips, which means the safe house does damage to him. And the victims in play are destroyed so he heals from those being destroyed. What order is the damage and healing resolved? Do you resolve the flip and heal him from destroyed victims first? Or flip him which activates the safe house, so he takes safehouse damage and he dies before the victims heal him?
Going by order of play it would first activate all things on Spite's character card which is destroy all villian cards, so I guess they would be destroyed prior to being dealt damage as the Safe House is in play after Spite is. So it'd be heal then deal damage.
I've been playing that he heals first. The destruction effect resolves before the safe house effect becuase it's on Spite's character card which was in play before Safe House. My understanding of the timing rules is that the responses will resolve first, and then you get to do the Safe House's damage.
Either way, you're probably going to win though if he's that low when he flips. :D
My understanding is that triggered effects take precedence over their the rest of the resolution of the card that triggered them. For instance, Bee Bot can take damage from an environment card that deals all-target damage, die, destroy the environment card doing the damage, and spare the other hero targets.
However, if two cards are trying to respond to the same trigger you resolve them in the order they came into play. In this case Spite and Safe House are both trying to respond to Spite flipping. Spite was in play first, so Spite gets to resolve his response first. If there was a card that dealt damage in response to Spite healing, or in response to a card being destroyed those would happen before Spite moved on to destroying the next card. For instance if Anubis was in play he would deal his damage before Spite destroyed the next card. Since Anubis and the victim card are both trying to respond to the same event (the victim being destroyed), the order these two effects take place in would be determined by the order they entered play. If Anubis was in play before the victim, his damage would happen before the victim's heal.