Hey all,
  I played last week and we got a great question (it happens almost every game).
  I used Animate to make my opponent shoot his team mate - yay.
  He used 'reflectdamage' (I can recall the name of the card at the moment), however the gist was to have the damage also apply to the players doing the strike - ie: me.
  I wanted it to apply to his player not mine but the card was pretty clear about it being the striker so I took it.
  However, I had a shield up facing the right direction if the damage was coming back to the player who was being animated.  Unfortunately my player was on a diagonal - so I had to suck it.

  How should this have played out?

Jules.