I'm new to the forums, but have been playing A LOT of mage wars recently. Roughly 2-3 games a day, and while I have most everything down, a few situations came up that I'm not sure how to resolve. I tried re-reading the rules and checking the rules supplement, so apologies if these questions have already been answered.

The first thing that happened was in a druid vs. necromancer game. What happened was a thornlasher attacked a plague zombie 1 square away, and rolled enough damage to kill the zombie. The thornlasher also got his snatch effect though. My question is, would you resolve the snatch before the zombie is technically destroyed, or would the zombie be destroyed immediately upon receiving the damage and not be snatched, thus avoiding the rot on the thornlasher?

My other question regards the upkeep phase and when to resolve certain conditions. The situation that came up was a burn token was placed on a highland unicorn. During the upkeep phase, which would you resolve first, the burn condition or the regenerate? From what I gathered it goes by initiative, but I'm not sure if that's right.