I attacked an enemy with a tough status with this card, and discarded an energy resource to deal 2 damage to it. Can I choose to deal the 2 damage to get rid of the tough first, before dealing 5 damage to the enemy?
I think you resolve each sentence on the card one after the other
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adsarf
· 488
As i understand it, unless it's very obvious that there is an order in which you resolve different effects, you can shuffle them around. In this specific case, it says 'all of the above', so they must happen at the same time (during the same window for action), so yeah, I'd say you can do that. Other cards have arrows to represent consecutive elements, and I'm sure there's a card out there that says something along the lines of 'resolve in the following order', so the absence of those signifiers could be understood as the contrary.
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TraitorMAIKI
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TraitorMAIKI - in this case there is an obvious order. You resolve cards sentence by sentence. The 5 damage happens first and you discard your top card. Then the ability associated with the discarded card happens. So the answer to OP's question is no, it must be 5 then 2. Notably, if you discarded a Wild resource, you can do the "all of the above" options in any order, but that 5 damage always comes first (RR1.5 entry under FAQ for the Hulk ally card, which works similarly)
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Stretch22
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