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[jpople02]

I played a game tonight with Doctor and Rats.  My opponent used a Doctor to trash a Rats, but we weren't sure whether the Rats' "When you trash this, +1 card" took effect before or after the other cards that Doctor revealed were top-decked again.  We figured that the on-trash effect happened immediately when Rats was trashed, which was before the other cards were returned to the top of the deck, so we did it that way, but I wanted to confirm.  The same thing would also apply to Cultists or Overgrown Estates, I guess.

[ConMan]

I played a game tonight with Doctor and Rats.  My opponent used a Doctor to trash a Rats, but we weren't sure whether the Rats' "When you trash this, +1 card" took effect before or after the other cards that Doctor revealed were top-decked again.  We figured that the on-trash effect happened immediately when Rats was trashed, which was before the other cards were returned to the top of the deck, so we did it that way, but I wanted to confirm.  The same thing would also apply to Cultists or Overgrown Estates, I guess.

Absolutely correct - when-X effects are resolved as soon as X happens, and interrupt anything else that may be happening in the game. In this case, the revealed cards are in the poorly-defined "revealed card area" and so the Rats when-trash causes you to draw the next card in the deck.