Wrest the Mind and the Video Game

I am currently playing the video game. My team is comprised of Ra, Fanatic, Visionary, and The Wraith. The villain is Omnitron in Insula Primalis.

The situation is this: Visionary is the only hero left active, nestled inside a Telekinetic Cocoon with Demoralization and a Wrest the Mind in play. WtM is on an Enraged T-Rex. Figured that I would be able to redirect the T-Rex to munch on Omni or his parts as it is not a power card. It just happens.

But apparently it doesn't work if Visionary is in a Telekinetic Cocoon.

That doesn't seem right.

Wah?! Really? I've been trying to get that combination up (WtM & TC) for months, without success, just to make sure it works.

When you say "it doesn't work", what happens?

I suspect it's because no damage was dealt because Visonary is immune and the target of the T-Rex. As no damage was dealt, it couldn't be redirected. Now, I think that's wrong, but that's what I would think the bug is.

Ah, yeah, if Visionary is the second-highest, then yeah, she's immune to damage so there's no damage to redirect. Good catch, pwatson!

I love how the video game is double checking our understanding of the rules.

Yeah, Christopher likes to watch our rules debates and cackle maniacally at our futile attempts to piece together the game.

For the video game he had to actually give them the rules, so now we get to run around and reverse-engineer them.

Man it is fun.

It's like he knows our weaknesses and exploits them to turn us into mindless fanboys.

Either that or he's really busy.  No, that would be boring.

To confirm: If the target is immune to damage, no damage would be dealt and so no redirection can happen.

See this recent post for more minutiae of damage timing: https://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/damage-effects-timing-meta-question-6141

Yeah, the game is still ongoing. Have most of Visionary's cards in hand so that when the Sedatives hit, between Fanatic and Wraith I can get the combo back up quickly. Have a hard time getting Visionary's HP up high enough. Slowly whittling Omnitron down.

Thanks for the response, Migrant.

And what's the deal with the goofy "the target next to this card" wording?

How would you suggest wording it?

I don't have a strong opinion, I'm just curious about why it was changed. However, I actually find the new instructions MORE confusing - it took me several read throughs to they meant the card that WtM is attached to and not the minion/target physically NEXT TO the card it is attached to.