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So if player a makes a rescue attempt with a hero that bands,  player b can play Christian martyr to stop the rescue immediately?  If thats the case I'm pretty sure a majority of players have been playing wrong since the games creation.

Josh, if I read your most recent post correctly, I believe you're getting two different things confused with each other.  Unholy Writ is an ability that is manually triggered at any time.  It's not the same as a triggered, pending ability, such as The Fallen Star (if opponent uses a search ability, he must under deck a random card from hand), which triggers when the search ability activates but is pending once the search and all other related abilities that activate from the search ability is complete.  A dominant could not be played, at this time, since it's a mandatory pending ability that already triggered off of the opponent's initial search.  The same would go for an optional pending ability (such as Mark of the Beast, which reads "if opponent uses a good ability to draw or search, you may search deck...") as the ability already triggered when the search ability occurred.  The controller of MotB would need to announce whether or not he's going to use it before the opponent plays a dominant.