Super Fantasy Brawl

Yes — if a card’s effect directly conflicts with a rule in the rulebook, the text on the card takes precedence (page 3).

Unless a card says otherwise, Champions can only target Enemy Champions; AoE attacks are legal if they include an Enemy even when Allies are also in the area (page 3).

After targets are declared the defender may play one reaction card per attack (only one reaction may be played against an attack), the reaction’s Core must be exhausted, reactions are only available during an opponent’s turn and cannot be used against skill actions (pages 6, 8).

No — defence is subtracted from an attack’s strength to determine attack damage, but effects that deal the damage icon bypass defence and are applied directly (pages 3 and 6).

When a Champion takes damage equal to or greater than their hitpoints they are placed out of action on their gate and all damage is removed; if an activating Champion took an Enemy out of action their player gains 1 VP and that activating Champion levels up after the action, and out-of-action Champions return only by using an action with a deploy/move icon into a deployment hex (page 7).

Traps trigger whenever a Champion enters the hex regardless of how they arrived; the controller of the Champion that activated the trap flips and resolves it, then that same player draws a new trap and places it facedown on a different empty trap hex (page 8).