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I am attacking with King Hezrkiah banded to Isaiah so Hezekiah is protected from opponents. My opponent blocks with Archelaus and attempts to discard Isaiah.
My questions is can I choose to withdraw even though Hezekiah is protected?

I'm sorry for not posting abilities, but I'm working from an iPhone and am in a game.

No. If you can't pay the cost on an instead ability, you don't get the benefit. Isaiah is toast.

Isaiah generally ends up as toast if you band Hezzy to him with no back-up for hezzy, but as for the actual ruling question, I believe Polaris is right here.

Because you have to withdraw two, not up to two.

Awesome, we played it right, it turned out it didn't matter since I had another Isaiah in my hand.

A related question, lets say I was in a slightly different situation, let's say instead of the 2011 Isaiah, I had the prophets Isaiah, and in my hand I had a Valley of Salt in my hand, can I choose the instead and then play Valley of Salt?

Valley of Salt (RA2)
Type: Hero Enh. • Brigade: Purple • Ability: X / 2 • Class: None • Special Ability: Interrupt the battle and discard up to X Evil Characters. Opponent may place them beneath deck instead. Cannot be negated if used by King Amaziah.

Yes since he can be Interrupted and u are stopping him from winning the battle.