Scarecrow: Legion of Doom (DC Organized Play 2016 #2)

[pk2317]

Card text:

While Scarecrow is active, you can't be attacked by characters with an A of 2 or less.

Does this card look only at the printed A stat on the die face, or does it take into account any applied or static bonuses? Thanks for clarifying this for us!

[dmrulesteam]

Card text:

While Scarecrow is active, you can't be attacked by characters with an A of 2 or less.

Does this card look only at the printed A stat on the die face, or does it take into account any applied or static bonuses? Thanks for clarifying this for us!

Scarecrow's ability concerns a character die's actual attack value at the moment an attack is to be declared. If a character die has a printed attack value of 1, but due to other game effects has its attack value increased to 3 before the Attack Step, then Scarecrow does not prevent that character die from attacking. Relatedly, if a character die has an attack value of 1, and that attack value would be increased to above 2 due to a "when attacks" ability, Scarecrow would prevent that character die from attacking--that change in attack value would effectively happen too late to avoid Scarecrow's ability.