Talk:M12-L Kimogila Fighter Expansion Pack/@comment-87.113.203.102-20170909092043/@comment-454133-20170926180232

That's exactly the idea. It's useless if your foe has no tokens, but if they do have tokens, they have the terrible choice between losing them all or taking 1 damage. Losing tokens means less damage output and/or defense, so they could end up losing more health by giving up the tokens (either due to lowered defense, or not killing the enemy fast enough).

And it works on all enemy ships in a line at ranges 1 - 3. You just point your arc at them and fire, and all enemies in that line are at risk of losing their token stack, or taking a damage to keep it. It could be very bad for formations, token stackers like Moldy Crow and Rey+Recon Specialist on Kanan, turtlers like Soontir Fel, etc. It's a strong incentive to use VI to be at PS 10.

Consider the alternative interpretation: Every single round, after you attack you deal one unavoidable damage to every enemy ship in a line that's out of focus and evade tokens (including the ship you just shot), and this triggers Jostero. The only way to prevent this auto-damage is to have tokens to discard. Torani can do this every turn, possibly to multiple ships every turn. Now compare that with the relatively limited sources of auto-damage already in the game.

The fact that this is very powerful isn't itself enough to demonstrate that it's the wrong interpretation -- other absurdly powerful things have made their way into the game (e.g. Mindlink Manaroo) and have been legit until errata'd. But it's one more potential nail in the coffin of that interpretation, among other evidence.

That said, because FFG is so behind on releasing FAQs, and because FFG has a history of very vague wording that they're not willing to clarify in FAQs, it's still anyone's guess what Torani's card means. Reasoned arguments on both sides have failed to be reconciled for other cards and are now on this wiki's (still unofficial) ban list because they became so toxic (targeting synchronizer being a prime example). We really need clearer answers from FFG, but they're not forthcoming. We haven't had a FAQ since June despite multiple expansions coming out in that time or nearly being out. Makes me worry for the future of the game. :(