Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Heroes/@comment-27101994-20170604044140/@comment-25982947-20170605022043

Giant Shy Guy wrote: I don't understand what's confusing about it. Binary Stars being on board means all cards - both Zombies and Tricks - do double the damage they usually do. And there's nothing changed about Armored, so Armored 1 would sponge up, well, 1 damage. There's no math about it. Yes there is actually, because we don't know what applies first before a card does damage: Binary Stars' effect or the Armored effect.

If Binary Stars' effect applies first then you'd get the usual effect from Armored, -1 damage.

But if the Armored effect applies before BS, then it'd technically reduce the damage by 2, because the BS effect would end up multiplying the Armored one too. For example let's say a card does X damage to an Armored plant, the math in this case would go: (X-1)x2 = 2X-2.

To make the reasoning for my questioning a bit more clear: Binary Stars' effect states this: "All your cards do double damage", now if you use Bungee Plumber on a Jugger-Nut, how much damage does it do? 1 or 2?