wooden homonculus and eat the dead

[Jeff Lewis 0]

What happens if you attach an Eat the Dead to a Wooden Homonculus and then the Homonculus is destroyed?  New domain or 2 resources added to an existing one?

[TheProfessor 4]

 The Wooden Homunculus says:

Disrupt: When Wooden Homunculus would be destroyed, instead place it face down as a new domain and attach the top card of your deck to it as a resource.

and Eat the Dead says:

Attach to a character you control. 
Response: When attached character is destroyed, attach it and Eat the Dead to any domain you control as resources. 

So we see that one is a Disrupt and the other a Response.  This becomes a timing issue.  In the FAQ, under the Timing Structure section, it is detailed that the order of precedence is:

1. Disrupt effects

2. Passive effects

3. Forced Response effects

4. Response effects

 

So the Disrupt would happen first if the card controller chooses to execute it.  But keep in mind that Disrupts are not mandatory, nor are Responses.  Only Forced Responses MUST happen.

 

[AUCodeMonkey 0]

TheProfessor is right. To clarify, let's provide some example situations.

You have Eat the Dead on your Wooden Homunculus, and your opponent plays a Deep One Assault. Your WH is targetted for destruction. You can Disrupt the destruction to put WH as a new domain with 1 resource attached from the top of the deck, or you can use the Response of Eat the Dead to place it on an existing domain with EtD as 2 new additional resources. It all depends on which option you choose to invoke. Remember that EtD is subject to being disrupted, however, whereas the WH ability is not.

[Jeff Lewis 0]

Thanks.  Those were the 2 most thorough, concise, and altogether satisfying explanations i have ever received.  Thanks again for your efforts.  They are appreciated.

[Supa2 0]

Keep in mind that you can't trigger both effects.

You can't use trigger both Wooden Homunculus' disrupt and Eat the Dead's response.

If you trigger W.H. disrupt, you're placing it as a new domain INSTEAD of destroying it. Eat the Dead requires the attached character to be destroyed.