Malign (Red)

Malign stops its damage from being prevented by prevention effects. It does not stop the defending hero from adding defending cards to the chain link.

If a prevention effect tries to prevent damage from Malign, each replacement effect will still try to do everything else other than preventing that damage. E.g. a card with Ward would still be destroyed.

Players can still attempt to prevent damage (apply optional prevention effects) even when the damage cannot be prevented.

An ongoing-prevention effect does not have its prevention amount reduced when the effect does not actually prevent any amount of damage. E.g. Crown of Seed’s ongoing-prevention effect would not have its prevention amount reduced and would still be able to prevent 1 damage later in the turn.