Talk:Torani Kulda/@comment-20.133.0.13-20180418115409/@comment-454133-20180418164314

A lot of people don't like it, and it certainly weakens Torani. But FFG is really cagey about auto-damage for good reason. Given the efforts they've had to put into limiting bomb builds, they probably decided to go with a conservative interpretation here for safety sake. A few of their rules interpretations tweak the brain, but were presumably done that way with balance in mind.

There's just so many evil things Torani could do to get that auto-damage in, e.g. make an ace bump into her front, shoot the foe behind them, and auto-damage the bumped (and thus tokenless) ace. Or strip tokens with Old Teroch, Palob, or Hot Shot Co-Pilot first, then shoot them with Torani for a guaranteed one damage. Delicate aces already have to worry about autoblasters, bombs, etc, and FFG may have looked at some of the combos and resulting playtesting and reacted like seeing a spider, "nope Nope NOPE NOPE!". We don't know, but we can hazard a guess. :)

But for your main point, yea, the interpretation of the wording this way bothers a lot of people, and I totally get why.