Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Heroes/@comment-27101994-20170604044140/@comment-25982947-20170605032809

Giant Shy Guy wrote: Why are you so focused on the armor? Nowhere does Binary Stars ever affect the armor. All it does is double the damage of your own cards. The change is the damage itself, not the Armored. Why would an armored 1 suddenly start become armored 2? Oh my god, you're talking about your cards' strength, and strength =/= damage when it comes to Armored. Binary Stars doubles damage, not base strength, so that's why I wonder about the interaction with Armored, because it also deals with damage, not strength.

Let me word try and word it differently so maybe you can see where I'm coming from. I'll use these terms:

Base damage: The damage a card will do under normal conditions. This number corresponds to a zombie's strength or the text on a damaging trick's ability description.

Actual damage: The damage a plant actually takes, which gets translated to lost health.

So now, as an example, Bungee Plumber has a base damage of 2, and against non-armored targets, its actual damage is the same, so it's also 2. But when used on Armored plants its actual damage is 1, because the Armored reduces its base damage by 1 before the plant gets hurt.

Now my question comes down to this: Does Binary Stars double the base damage of a card or the actual damage of that card?