Hey,
There are a lot of characters that can search for a Fortress and Herod the Great can be negated. There are very few evil CBN banding abilities on evil characters with more than 4 toughness and Herod Agrippa II makes Escape to Egypt CBN and Herod's Treachery CBI.
The real question is why are two of the three best gold evil characters head to head in the first round?
Tschow,
Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly