When a printed line resolves — Gridforged Rules

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Printed line	Resolves	Why
Crush N	Before everything else in the activation	Ordinary Crush is hoisted to the front of the activation lane, as armor setup.
Smash N	Before everything else in the activation	A Smash lowers Armor through its tier reduction, so it is hoisted with Crush.
Crush Frozen enemies	In printed order	Deliberately not hoisted, so an earlier Freeze can establish its targets.
Any ordinary rider — Burn, Freeze, Stun, Blind, buffs, bonus damage	Before the hit, in printed order	Activation lane. Bonus damage joins the base hit.
Lucid: …	After the other activation-lane clauses, before the hit	Lucid clauses resolve last in the activation lane.
Initiative: …	In printed order on the first activation only	Gated, then repeated immediately if an ally grants repeats.
Deal {power} damage	After the activation lane	The base hit carries all accumulated bonus damage as one instance.
Maim: N	After the hit	Maim always resolves in the post-damage lane.
Cull	After the hit	Cull always resolves in the post-damage lane, so it reads post-hit Vitality.
A rider a card marks as post-damage	After the hit, in printed order	Cards can opt any rider into the post-damage lane.
Passive: …	When its event fires	Trigger channel, outside the activation lanes.
Round start / battle start effects	Before the first activation of the battle	Includes Braced, Markup, and battle-start Roost.

400.7aWithin a lane, clauses resolve in the order they are printed. Armor setup — Crush and Smash — is the only exception.
400.7bA card that prints Maim and then Cull applies the Maim first, and the Cull tests against the increased pool. A card that prints them the other way round would test first — no printed card does.
400.7cA clause in the post-damage lane still resolves when the hit dealt 0 damage or the target was already dead. Only clauses that explicitly require a hit are skipped.
400.7dBonus damage accumulated by activation-lane clauses is added to the base hit, so it is mitigated once, by the same Armor and Shield, as a single instance.