Touch of Reality

Instant - X,

: This gets ward X until end of turn. Destroy this at the beginning of the end phase.

When activating Touch of Reality, part of its activation cost has a resource cost of X, which you must declare any number for X greater than or equal to 0 that you intend to pay as part of paying its resource costs. Effects that increase resource costs are applied before effects that decrease resource costs; however, this effects will not affect the declared value of X for the purposes of Ward X.When Touch of Reality’s activated ability resolves, it will get Ward X. It will also generate a delayed-triggered effect that will destroy Touch of Reality at the beginning of the end phase.
You can declare the value of X = 0 when activating Touch of Reality. If you do, Touch of Reality will get Ward 0. If you would be dealt damage and you would apply a Ward 0 prevention effect to that damage event, you would still destroy the object with the Ward 0 ability and the damage value of the event is not reduced.
Neither player receives priority during the end phase of a turn.
If Touch of Reality was added as a defending equipment card, you can still activate its instant ability and use its ward ability that it gets.

Ward X - If your hero would be dealt damage, prevent X of that damage and destroy this.

Ward is a static ability that generates a fixed-prevention effect.
The prevention effect is not optional. It applies whenever damage would be dealt to your hero.
If another prevention effect reduces a damage event to 0, the replacement condition is no longer met (damage would not be dealt), so Ward would not apply.
The prevention amount applies to a single damage event. The leftover prevention amount does not apply to any future damage that would be dealt to your hero.
If the damage prevention can not be applied due to an effect, the object with Ward on it is still destroyed as part of the replacement effect application.

SubtypesArms

KeywordsWard X

SetsPEN