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Hello,
    I am still very new to the game, less than a week, and I have some questions. I just got the new Starter I/J, and there are a few cards specifically to the Negate [Card Type] including:

  Ruth and John : Negate Evil Characters. Does this means Evil Characters Special Abilities do not activate when they enter battle(except Banding? and or ongoing abilities "from what I have read")? Or evil Characters cannot be placed on Players Territory from hand? Or Evil characters cannot enter battle?
  Peter: Negate Demons. Demons Special abilities only?  same questions from above but regarding demons.
  Foul Spirit: Negate Heroes. Same as above.
  Selfish Kinsman: Negate Enchantments. Would this negate only the special abilities on enchantments except the */* on them?
     
          Is the negate a special ability? that is activates only when entering battle? What about John vs Job's wife (All special abilities on Character cards and enhancement cards except this one are negated. Battle is determined by the numbers.)  Would John negate this ability if he is in Play first? , Or it is at the moment they enter battle? that those abilities happen?

      I play this game, because I did not wanted to play MTG, but this game seems superficially simple to play and learn, but I find so many details that are hard to grasp, such as using magic terms, the "stack" in this game is composed of up to two enhancements one from each player, for example I play an enhancement, then you have initiative to play another enhancement, and unless you play an interrupt those two enhancements need to resolve before you can play anything else? Is that how it works?
                         I really appreciate your help and patience.

  Yes, that clears most of my questions, Negate strictly refers to Special Abilities. But how is it that after Player B played Evil Strength it when back to stalemate?  Was it rather Player A was Losing by Numbers So he got initiative? 

Based on the initiative I just encountered another question. Player A does a rescue attempt with Samson 12/6 , player B blocks with Ahaziah 5/7 , Samson is winning therefore Player B has initiative?.. so he plays Dungeon of Malchiah (Take any Hero prisoner and place Hero in your opponent's Land of Bondage. Hero is treated as a Lost Soul.) (Samson is winning by numbers) or is he losing because of the ability? Assuming he is losing Does Player A has initiative to play Shamgar's Oxgoad (Discard an Evil Character (or 2 evil Philistines). ) to Discard Ahaziah, or does it HAVE to be a Negate Enhancement in order to negate the Ability since Dungeon of Malchiah was played first?