Current Action
Smuggler - Grappling Hook on Target
– Gain Ranged
— Apply damage Target
---- Apply teleport
----- Activate corrupt
------ Target dies
------- No corrupt value
Suggested Action
Smuggler - Grappling Hook on Target
– Gain Ranged
— Apply damage Target
---- Target dies
----- Apply teleport
------ Activate corrupt
------- Corrupt value
This is how it works for other situations too. Frog tosser killing a Crumbling Golem, etc.
Corpse removal and last words come after almost everything else (maybe not card-played type synergies, eg Aurora’s Disciple - can’t remember exactly).
Doing it differently might complicate things, eg: what if the target you killed was a Plague Bearer that killed your Kobold Smuggler before it could teleport? do you teleport the corpse? does the corpse corrupt?
I don’t see the difference in complication. If one shoots a target it expects impact on hit. People who adapted to Plague Bearer profit (if it exists) adapted to an unnatural illogical and counter intuitive order of things. The played event is on the stack before card ability. Now it goes back and forth.
The corpse would logically not currupt nor teleport.