I was playing a game yesterday with my friend and the following situation arose:

He was team attack me with two front row x-men, I tapped my dazzler and made him exhaust one of them. In response to that he wanted to play fastball special, with the two x-men he had declared a team attack with. I ruled he couldn't do this since he had already declared them to be attacking. I also told him I would check on here and see if I was right.

So am I right or could he have played his fastball special?

Thanks for looking.

I think he could do it. Mitchell W would be the authority here, but it seems legitimate, as long as he hadn't already exhausted for the attack, which he didn't do or Dazzler would have had no effect.

Actually, Dazzler can only exhaust support row characters, so you actually made an illegal move. So, I supose this would make your question for this specific scenerio moot, eh?

To begin with, Dazzler can only exhaust _support_ row characters, so that was your first mistake. Secondly, by declaring an attack, he added an effect to the chain that said, "if the proposed attack is still legal than exhaust proposed attackers and give them the attacker status. Give the proposed defender the defender status." Note they are not exhausted at this time, which is why you could exhaust one or both by any legal means. It also means your opponent could exhaust one or both by any legal means, in this case Fastball Special. When the proposed attack effect resolved, it would find both proposed attackers exhausted and would find them to be illegal attackers and cancel the attack. If either one had been legal, the team attack would have proceeded.

It wasn't dazzler I did it with I just couldn't remember the name of the character so I put her name out there---my bad on the not knowing her card text. Locke---What your saying is that he declares team attack, I exhaust attacker with character ability, then he declares fastball special. It would come up as fastball special, my char ability wouldn't take effect since fastball special exhausts said character and the attack would negate itself? Just wanting to make sure I have this right.

Thanks for the quick replys.

Basically yes. Although, in Vs., everything still resolves and carries out the effect, it's just the effect might not do anything. Unlike Magic, there is no such thing as "fizzle." Your character's effect will still exhaust the targeted character, but since it is already exhausted, nothing really happens. Same with proposed attack. It resolves, but finds the attack illegal, and doesn't allow the attack to take place.

Cool, thanks again for the help.