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Depends on your point of view. Does it mean other sons of Jacob {besides this one} or {besides Joseph}? I would say it's supposed to be the latter. In which case, they would not be protected. But it's unclear...

I would rule that it would not protect your opponent's Joseph because "other sons" is referring to all of Israel's sons except Joseph. And one just needs to go to the story to understand the purpose of that ability, which is he provided protection to Israel's sons from being killed by the famine and from himself since he had the power to crush his brothers for what they did to him.

In the absence of a general rule, I'd probably rule that he would protect an opponent's Joseph, because I read "Other" as "other than this specific card" not "this unique identity" and the sons of Jacob would be referring to all twelve.

Quote from: ChristianSoldier on August 28, 2017, 12:27:47 AM

In the absence of a general rule, I'd probably rule that he would protect an opponent's Joseph, because I read "Other" as "other than this specific card" not "this unique identity" and the sons of Jacob would be referring to all twelve.

I understand what you're saying but "this specific card" is still considered a unique character because they're both still Joseph.

I would read this ability the same whether Joseph was a unique character or not, or more logically whether an ability like this was on a unique or generic character, and I think if say a generic warrior class hero had an ability that said "Protect other warrior class heroes from discard" it would protect another copy of itself and I don't think being unique is a good reason to rule it differently without a specific uniqueness based rule. In my opinion if they wanted the ability to exclude Joseph they should have written it as something like "Protect Sons of Jacob except Joseph..." although this could be a situation where they were trying to cut back on the character count (as in letters and such) so it could go either way in that sense.

We have reviewed this question with the examples below in mind--

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Lost Soul Psalm 119:176) (anti-angel) - If an angel rescues this card from your territory, you may place any other Lost Soul beneath owner's draw pile.

While not commonly used, it seemed to us that most people would agree this LS can underdeck another copy of itself.

Gamaliel's Speech - Place in your territory: You may discard this card to negate and discard the last Enhancement played by an opponent or any other Enhancement in play.

We know for certain that Gam's Speech has been ruled to be able to discard other Gam's Speeches.

James, Leader in Jerusalem - Protect other Jerusalem Heroes in territories from harm...

This card is identical to the Joseph question. Unfortunately it did not come up as a question in our PC playtest notes.

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Our interpretation is that using "other" on Joseph and James, LiJ is a shorter form of saying (except 'card name'). We've ruled that cards that reference themselves only target that specific copy. Based on that and the cards listed above we concluded that CoW Joseph will protect an opponent's copy of Joseph (the son of Jacob).

Indeed.

It will protect all other "son of Jacob" Josephs.

Joseph (PA), Joseph (FooF) and Joseph (CoW) are the same character so yes, CoW Joseph protects all of those.

For the record, I wasn't trying to be vague...I simply wanted to emphasize the whole "son of Jacob" thing lest anyone tried to be a smart alec and say "What about Joseph the Carpenter or Joseph of Arimethea?"