Talk:I'll Show You The Dark Side/@comment-24.200.102.116-20180418013802/@comment-454133-20180418030503

Yes. If you have this condition and you suffer one or more crits, then the first of those crits will assign the condition's facedown damage card instead of dealing critical damage. When an effect assigns you a damage card in this way, it will bypass shields (click that to see other effects that do this). You can indeed kill a ship with full shields this way. For example, Poe even with shield regen as you said, a B-Wing with all 5 shields intact, a two-hull TIE Adv. Prototype, etc.

Bypass shield effects are brutal, and somewhat rare as a result. This condition is one of the more common ones I see.