Song of Mocking
The Dead Marshes #99 (x3)
Verstärkung
[1]
Lied.  

Attach to a hero.

Action: Exhaust Song of Mocking to choose another hero. Until the end of the phase, attached hero takes all damage assigned to the chosen hero.

Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop. Stop your spinning and look for me!
-Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

Illus. Carolina Eade
Categories
Damage Control
Archetypes
Gloin Voltron
Notes
Ruling (04/27/2016)

Rules Question

Hello, I've got a couple of questions about Song of Mocking if you wouldn't mind helping me out.

  1. I'm playing a deck with Glóin, Treebeard and Gimli as the heroes. I attach Song of Mockings to both Glóin and Gimli, exhaust both of them (choosing Treebeard on each occasion) and then use Treebeard's action to damage himself. Who ends up taking the damage?
  2. Similar set up to above but this time I attach songs to Gimli and Treebeard. I exhaust Treebeard's song and choose Gimli, and vice versa. If I then damage Treebeard using his action, what happens?
Thanks,
James

Hi James,
  1. If you activate two copies of Song of Mocking targeting the same character, Treebeard in this case. When Treebeard would take damage, you will have to choose which one of those characters with Song of Mocking will take the damage instead. You will not damage both.
  2. If you redirect damage away from Treebeard with Song of Mocking, you can trigger his ability but you cannot gain the +1 bonus because he didn’t take the damage. It went to Gimli instead. The damage would not bounce back and forth. If Gimli were to take damage (not redirected from Treebeard via Song of Mocking) that damage would be redirected to Treebeard.

Cheers,
Caleb