- Play: Deal 2Template:Damage to an enemy creature. If this damage destroys that creature, deal 2Template:Damage to each of that creature’s neighbors after it leaves play.
- Pain Reaction was updated in Rulebook 1.6. Original card text:
Play: Deal 2Template:Damage to an enemy creature. If this damage destroys that creature, deal 2Template:Damage to each of that creature’s neighbors.
Artist: David Auden Nash
Official Rulings
If I play Pain Reaction (AoA 078) on an opponent's creature to destroy it, when is the damage dealt to its neighbors? If the creature has already left play, how do I know what its neighbors are?
Pain Reaction is an exception to the rule that all damage from an ability is dealt simultaneously, because it explicitly establishes that the damage is dealt after the destroyed creature leaves play. This damage is dealt to whatever creatures were the neighbors of the destroyed creature immediately before it left play.
Source: Rulebook
If I play Pain Reaction (AoA 078) on an opponent's creature to destroy it, when is the damage dealt to its neighbors? If the creature has already left play, how do I know what its neighbors are?
Pain Reaction is an exception to the rule that all damage from an ability is dealt simultaneously, because it explicitly establishes that the damage is dealt after the destroyed creature leaves play. This damage is dealt to whatever creatures were the neighbors of the destroyed creature immediately before it left play.
Source: Rulebook
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