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This makes no sense. Ends doesn't interrupt the battle so the discard example is flawed. Are you saying if Deceit of Sapphira discards all cards that if you use YWR to add a Hero that hero is discarded as well?

A better example is an ignore ability because it is on-going (similar to protection).

Deceit of Sapphira is an instant ability that resolves prior to YWR being able to trigger.

That helps. I was thinking of Uzzah as an instant ability. Carry on.

But the cards are no longer in play to update like your examples do. How can they update targets from the discard pile, that makes no sense.

The ongoing protect lasts until the end of the phase.

I agree that the protect would continue, however from countless rulings it is been stated that if it doesn't specify where it defults to in play, and in this case these cards are worded more like instant abilities and are no longer in play to retarget the revealed souls. All the examples you have given requires the card to stay. If i discard household idols or garden tomb and then present blocker or attacker are they still ignored?

Ok so dear battle my Joseph cow gets discarded does his protection of other sons of jacob stick till end of battle phase. I have had it ruled multiple times at states and regional that he is no longer on table to protect,

If he was in battle, the protection would last for the phase.

If he was discarded from territory, then the rule for TC characters is that their abilities "turn off" when they leave territory (even if the abilities aren't negated they simply stop being active).

Shouldn’t this depend on the wording of what is being targeted?

Uzzah specifies “all lost souls” so wouldn’t matter if a new lost soul enters play as it would still be included as being protected.

However, Fire Foxes just says “lost souls” so only targets the lost souls that were available to be targeted when Fire Foxes activated. Any new lost souls added to the field would not be protected because they were not in play.

Based on the REG wording, I still see this as consistent. “An automatically targeted ongoing effect may update [...]” To day that it may implies that it also may not, which seems like it would be heard on the wording.

Here is wording from REG

Ongoing Effects 
Ongoing effects are effects that activate, declare a target and continue affecting the targets for longer than an instant. Ongoing effects are not completed until their specified duration has ended or the phase in which they are activated has ended, whichever comes later. An automatically targeted ongoing effect may update its targets until it completes. An ongoing effect that has activated but not completed is active. An ongoing effect that persists through multiple phases can be interrupted or negated in each phase in which it is active. If the negation ends before the ongoing effect and the ongoing effect persists to the next phase, it will reactivate at the beginning of the next phase. Any results of an ongoing effect from a prior phase cannot be interrupted or negated, only the results in the current phase.

Uzzah specifies “all lost souls” so wouldn’t matter if a new lost soul enters play as it would still be included as being protected.

However, Fire Foxes just says “lost souls” so only targets the lost souls that were available to be targeted when Fire Foxes activated. Any new lost souls added to the field would not be protected because they were not in play.

Uzzah and Foxes both target all lost souls in play. Uzzah including the word all is just an outdated style of wording abilities.