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Since the artifact is already activated (it's an ongoing ability before the battle even starts), Elijah's abilities are negated, therefore he cannot choose a blocker. You would have to discard two good enhancements or one good Dominate in order to discard and remove the curse's ability. Then Elijah could start an RA and be free to a choose blocker. I believe that's the way it would go.I'm kind of curious of what would happen if you owned the Assyrian Laborers with Confusion of Mind activated on it and then tried to bring it into battle. Is that even possible? I know it probably wouldn't be a smart move, but kind of cool though.
2. Does a “choose the rescuer/blocker” ability give my opponent SI? I would imagine that since the ability still leaves my opponent with a character in battle my opponent would not be granted SI.
So only the characters banded in via his special ability or an enhancement played on him are CBN?
Can I exchange King Sennacherib with an Assyrian warrior that I searched for using his own ability? For example, suppose I use King Sennacherib to search my deck for Assyrian Officer and I then want to do the exchange with him.Spoiler (hover to show)