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I think that this one is confusing you because you think it's supposed to benefit evil characters   Which is understandable since it protects them from something, but the something it is protecting from is beneficial (just like protecting heroes from Heal is an evil ability).

The story of Gideon includes a story of the wool fleece, which Gideon used to ask God to prove that He was actually talking to Gideon and had Gideon's back in the coming fight.  Through God's power, the combined might (banding) of the enemies of Israel was undone.

Wool Fleece protects evil characters from banding, meaning that a banding EC cannot target another to being him in to the battle.  It can be activated on Gideon because that is who used it in the Bible.

Hopefully that helps!

Thank you both for the reply, Redoubter for the technical version and MathTeacher for the layman's version.

I was a bit familiar with the story and was reading the scripture trying to figure it out but it was the "protect" word that threw me off. My initial interpretation was that it was a counter to evil banding due to the Wool Fleece story, but the word "protect" is what threw me off because of my experience in reading "protect" has always been to protect characters from an opponent's attack against them. So when it's used this way it is confusing because I would have expected the wording to be Negated, Prevented, etc. And of course now it makes sense why it's on Gideon. I definitely learn something new all the time in this game!

Thanks again,

Derek

Quote from: YourMathTeacher on July 03, 2016, 05:33:02 PM

Basically, ECs that are "protected from banding" are not allowed to band. Using the "protect"wording rather than "negate" allows Wool Fleece to stop CBN banding (like with TexP Gomer).

To tweak that slightly, ECs protected from banding are not allowed to be banded to.

Polarius' clarification is on point in how the new wool fleece works in line with protect rulings.

To tweak that slightly, ECs protected from banding are not allowed to be banded to.

So since abilities default to play, Wool Fleece protects ECs in play from banding abilities.  I assume if I block with Gomer, I can still band to KoT in my hand?