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Nope, It's not still implied. For cards like Stronghold in the Desert, Evil Spawn (Gold) and Jephtah, if you hit a lost soul, it stays discarded.

Of course there are counters to this strategy - Crumbs from the Masters Table can get a lost soul back, The Thankful Leper can always search them all out, I think there are one or two enhancements that can get them back. And in order to actually make it work you have to hit 2 souls, 3 if they stop burial with Lampstand, more if they have cards like TAS or Malchus.

The strategy was found mainly in combo decks before TAS and Hopper really started to find thier way into decks. Any deck that is using this as a strategy really either needs to commit the cards to it, meaning that it'll be a weak D otherwise, or have it as a sparing option, which means its not going to work in more than 5% of games. The Female/N.T. argument was a good one back in this strategies hay-day, but now with the FBTN soul, in addition to all the other ways around them, the prevalence of disciples, and TGT females I don't find those souls nearly as useful. plus since you don't get to choose which soul gets discarded frequently you'll hit one of those two souls.

Exchanging lost souls with opponent and the returning it to your deck, like that babylonian guy and then DoU or Hormah to return THEIR lost soul to THEIR deck while yours is still in their land of bondage