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And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span...And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

1 Samuel 17:4,8-9

Black Enhancement

Interrupt the battle, select one of your evil characters to fight rescuing hero in a side-battle.  Negate all special abilities in that side-battle.  If hero is defeated, that player shuffles their heroes from play into draw pile.  If evil character is defeated, that player shuffles their evil characters from play into draw pile.  Cannot be negated if used by a warrior-class philistine.

What do you think? Fun?

It looks fun, but the ability is too long for a card.

Maybe...

Interrupt the battle. Select one of your evil characters to fight a rescuing hero in a side-battle.  Negate characters and enhancements in that battle.  Losing side shuffles all of their characters of that alignment. Cannot be negated if used by a warrior-class philistine.

It's still kinda long, but gets the same intent across.

Or you could say "Side battle to be deterimed by numbers alone. Special abilites prevented."

Interrupt the battle and select one of your evil characters. Opponent must select one of their heroes to fight it in a side battle.  Negate all cards in that side-battle. The player who is defeated must shuffle all of their cards of the same type that was defeated in battle. Cannot be negated if used by a warrior-class philistine.

Or, in keeping with the original:

Interrupt the battle, select one of your evil characters to fight rescuing hero in a side-battle. Negate all cards in that side-battle. The player who is defeated must shuffle all of their cards of the same type that was defeated in battle. Cannot be negated if used by a warrior-class philistine.

Or, more in line with YMT

Interrupt the battle and select one of your evil characters. Opponent must select one of their heroes to fight it in a side battle. Negate all cards in that side-battle. Protect all cards from banding until the side battle ends. Cannot be negated if used by a warrior-class philistine.

Actually, if you protect everything from everything then there's no need to negate special abilities at all. You can essentially just drop that part.

"Interrupt the battle and select one of your evil characters. Opponent must select one of their heroes to fight it in a side battle.  Protect ALL cards everywhere from cards in that side-battle. The player who is defeated must shuffle all cards of the same type that was defeated in battle that are in their territory. Cannot be negated if used by a warrior-class philistine."

But, I still think it's rather long to fit on a printed card. This could be like The Darkness all over again. If you make the side battle against the rescuing hero then it shortens it quite a bit, and technically the rescuer /did/ pick their hero because they decided who to rescue with.

"Interrupt the battle and select one of your evil characters to fight the rescuing hero in a side-battle. Protect ALL cards everywhere from cards in that side-battle. The player who is defeated must shuffle all cards of the type that was defeated in battle that are in their territory. Cannot be negated if used by a warrior-class philistine."

Interrupt the battle and select one of your evil characters to fight rescuing hero. Protect all cards from special abilities during the side battle. All characters with matching brigade of the loser are shuffled into owner's deck. Cannot be negated if used by a Philistine.

I like the rewording, mine was too long. 

Interrupt the battle, select your Evil Character to fight rescuing hero and protect all cards from special abilities during that battle. Shuffle all characters with the same brigade as loser. Cannot be negated if used by a Philistine.

Made YMT's even shorter, perhaps to acceptable length even.