Prof A is correct. AS is not discarded, he's captured instead. If you played DoU on any other Assyrian you would get to use PoJ.
To start: I agree with this completely. However, I had this ruled against me in similar situations, and the I can see the argument on certain situations.
For example: Survivor is banded into battle (let's say he has horses, and is banded in by SoT, I think that was the situation anyway), and
SSS is played. All EC are removed, protection goes into place, and now the battle ends. After the battle, Survivor's instead triggers, and he is captured instead of being removed. Since SSS is a "remove
to protect", the protection isn't there, and in fact, it 'never' happened, since the ruling on instead is that the original condition just never occurred once it is insteaded.
So should a soul be rescued? I argued yes, but definitely saw the reasoning that the battle is already over, and so the opportunity has passed to rescue. Though, with the way instead is being ruled, there
was that opportunity...
So yes, this is a complicated scenario with Survivor. Can we get some more elaboration on what happens with insteads that take place a significant time later (such as after battle)?
