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Striking Herod would interrupt Uzzah's protection, though (as an ongoing ability). I'm not sure what that means, exactly - it may mean it can't reactivate because he's already in the discard pile, or it does reactivate because his location didn't change. But Striking Herod won't bring him back to play to be a target for the discard.
PlayA card is considered “played” if it meets these criteria:● You play an enhancement by attempting to activate its special ability (or numbers inbattle)● You play a character or multicolor site by putting it in your territory or your side of thebattle.● You play any other card type by putting it face up on the playing surface from hand,deck, or discard pile due to your special ability or game action, except when you discarda card from hand.Note: Play can be a special ability, but is more broadly a game action. A special ability is onlyconsidered a play ability when it contains the word play, and is not referring to the Field ofPlay. Any other action or ability that results in a card being played is not a play ability, but isan example of a play game action. For example, "You may play an enhancement" is a playability, while "You may band a Hero into battle from hand" is not a play ability, since it doesnot contain the word play, even though the character banded from hand is considered tohave been played by the player who used the ability.
Striking Herod would interrupt Uzzah's protection, though (as an ongoing ability).
Quote from: RedemptionAggie on June 24, 2017, 09:53:00 PMStriking Herod would interrupt Uzzah's protection, though (as an ongoing ability). It would interrupt Uzzah's protection, if Uzzah was still in play - otherwise it won't.Even though negates/interrupts "target abilities" and not cards, the cards still need to be in play; the negate/interrupt needs to specifically state it can target an ability not in play (set-aside, discard, etc), or it needs a "negate/interrupt last" clause that allows it to target the card no matter where it is.
"The phrase “interrupt the battle” includes interrupting the following:● all active ongoing abilities● abilities that are defeating one of the characters you control in battle● the last card played in current battle if it was played by your opponent."Such a clause does in fact exist in this scenario.
But Striking Herod won't bring him back to play to be a target for the discard.
I was merely pointing out that if (in some convoluted battle scenario) SH was played in a battle where Uzzah already activated, and in which Uzzah was not the last card played, SH would not interrupt Uzzah's protect ability.
Quote from: jmhartz on June 26, 2017, 03:54:05 PMI was merely pointing out that if (in some convoluted battle scenario) SH was played in a battle where Uzzah already activated, and in which Uzzah was not the last card played, SH would not interrupt Uzzah's protect ability.I'm confused by this. Why would an ongoing "Protect" ability in battle not be interrupted by an "Interrupt the Battle" ability?
