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Do captured characters retain identifiers?

ex. Assyrian Siege Army work with captured Survivor?

Most identifiers are retained.  A captured David is still David, but is no longer a Hero. 

So yes, a captured Survivor is no longer an Evil Character, but is still an Assyrian, so ASA works.

There should not be, but I don't know if that's been stricken down yet.

"Identifier" is not defined in the REG. Should it be? The issues being discussed here would probably be best addressed under the entries for Capture and Convert. I propose the following additions to those entries;

Under Capture > Default Conditions
Captured characters retain their identifier(s) but may only be targeted as captured characters.

Under Convert > Default Conditions
Converted characters retain their identifier(s) unless the identifier is alignment specific (Ex: Angels are only Heros, Demons and Magicians are only Evil Characters).

The captured Assyrian king would still meet the condition of a card that says, "cannot be negated if an Assyrian king is in play", but could not be targeted by the discard ability you describe.

My intent is to make it clear with additional language to the capture entry in the REG. is there a different way it could be said that would make it more obvious?

The above ruling seems inconsistant. If a King is in play... vs. Discard a King... in reference to captured characters? What is the difference?

Or we can just get rid of the silly rule. It was literally made to stop one specific combo that's not even that good. If we get rid of the double-standard for identifiers, we won't need any of this linguistic gymnastics.