Does Film critic "turn off" Punitive counterstrike?

tvaduva · July 25, 2016, 6:36pm

For one-off questions, it’s best to use the official rules thread (it’snow pinned):

Official Rules Question Thread Rules Questions

(I think it would be nice if we could have a single thread for rules questions rather than having to make a new one for every question edit: this is good) I’ve been trying to understand how Security Testing interacts with some other cards, but I haven’t been able to Google. it. So: What happens if I get into HQ for the first time in a turn with an Account Siphon? I know that with two simultaneous effects you can choose which one happens first so I had thought that you got to choose whether to replace the access with Security Testing or with Siphon, but the recently posted Toronto Regionals report said that you can’t. Is that because Security Testing is mandatory whereas Siphon is optional? Or does the report just have it wrong? I am also not sure how Security Testing interacts with Sne…