Prevent

Some card abilities prevent damage or threat.

• When damage is prevented, reduce the amount of damage the target takes (i.e. the amount of damage that is placed on the target).

  • When an effect prevents damage dealt to a character, the amount of damage that character “takes” is reduced, but the amount of damage “dealt” is not reduced.

  • If an effect prevents all damage dealt to a character, that character is not considered to have taken damage.

  • If all damage from an attack is prevented, the attacking character is considered to have dealt damage, but is not considered to have “attacked and damaged” the attacked character.

  • If dealing damage is a cost, that cost is considered paid even if some or all of that damage is prevented.

  • If taking damage is a cost, that cost is not considered paid unless all of that damage was taken. (If any of the damage is prevented, then the cost has not been paid.)

• When threat is prevented, reduce the amount of threat being assigned before it is placed on the scheme.

See also

• Ability
• Cost
• Damage
• Scheme (Card Type)
• Target
• Threat