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When you play Death of Unrighteous against me, it's always been understood that I fail the rescues attempt, but I win the battle challenge, since I am now unblocked. It's the same thing here.

Block
Your opponent must decide whether to block your rescue attempt or battle challenge. If your opponent chooses to block, he should place an Evil Character into the Field of Battle to fight your Hero. This Evil Character can come from his territory or his hand. Some Evil Characters have a special ability printed over the picture on the card. This special ability does not become active until the Evil Character enters battle. Once the Evil Character enters battle, the special ability is activated. The instructions on the card must be applied at that moment. If the special ability includes the word “may,” your opponent has the choice of activating the special ability or skipping it for that battle.

If your opponent does not block your rescue attempt otherwise stop your Hero, then your Hero crosses the Battle unchallenged and rescues one Lost Soul. A may be played to prevent this. (See Dominants Played During the Battle Phase).

NOTE: Certain artifacts may stop a Hero from rescuing a Lost Soul. Unholy Writ is one such artifact. This artifact can be used to capture a human Hero even if no Evil Character blocks.

If your opponent does not block your battle challenge, then your Hero must withdraw from the Field of Battle back to your territory without playing any enhancements.

NOTE: Certain Heroes have a special ability that allows a player to play an enhancement before being blocked. Ethiopian Treasurer is one such Hero. This enhancement takes effect even if no Evil Character blocks.

More:

Example - Optional special abilities

Example - Negating special abilities

Example - Manditory special abilities

Example - Continuous special abilities

So you are saying that the card is hitting the player? Well, I suppose he has the paper cut tactic on his side...

RC would be borken otherwise.

Quote from: D-man on March 24, 2010, 02:31:14 PM

When a hero goes unblocked in a rescue attempt, he's won the battle, hasn't he?  The same applies to a battle challenge.

The difference is that in a battle challenge, there is no Soul to rescue, meaning there is no real object to the fighting, which in turn should mean (IMHO) that you should just be able to say no thank you, have a nice day.

It's true that that would make RC more powerful, but there are so many ways to put Lost Souls in opponent's territory now, not to mention all the ways to get rid of forts.

Quote from: STAMP on March 24, 2010, 04:43:35 PM

Once a battle challenge starts then it goes to battle resolution just like a rescue attempt.

This is what I am saying. I feel like if my opponent does not block a battle challenge, the battle challenge never really started. If someone breaks into my house to steal something but finds nothing there to steal, I will probably be less apt to fight him back that if he had his hands on my plasma screen TV. This might be a cruddy example, but I am very tired right now and am leaving!