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1. An active ignore takes precedent over anything played after it (unless you interrupt/negate the ignore, of course). So, no, you couldn't successfully block by playing an immune-granting enhancement.

2. The ignore that was active first (most likely the hero) takes precedent.

3. That is correct.

If a hero ignores a blocker that blocker can the blocker play a immune card to stop it?

If a hero's SA ignores the blocker and the blocker's SA ignores the hero which takes precedent?

Zeb's ignore abilitiy stops my opponent from presenting any EC with toughness greater than the cards in my hand as the first blocker right?

In question 2, the blocker would not be able to enter battle if he was being ignored before he entered.

@Redoubter - If an ignore is active first, it doesn't matter if you gain immunity to the ignore because they're already walking around you.  If the immunity is active first, then yes it would work against an ignore played after it.

This has been the precedent for this ruling, for a long time.  But I cannot recall why.  Does it have something to do with the ignoring character not being able to be targeted by the immune ability?

Immune targets the card(s) gaining immunity. Ignore (one part of it, at least) targets the card being ignored. If you're immune to me, I can't target you to ignore you, but I still get the "you can't touch me either" portion of ignore. On the flip side and I'm ignoring you first, you can gain immunity but I'm already walking around you so it doesn't change anything (since I'm not hurting you anyway).

*instaposted*

If the REG was working for me, I could check for you, but alas it is not so I am unable.

The only thing I have to go on at this point is the Cheat Sheet that I made awhile ago (and updated a few times). In the battle outcome section, for the Ignore vs. Immunity scenario, I have listed: "If the immunity was active first, ignoring the immune character results in a stalemate (as neither can affect the other). If the ignore was active first, the outcome follows normal ignore rules."

I don't remember where I got this from (though the only sources I used were the Rulebook, the REG, and official Elder rulings), but it was approved by an Elder before I made it available to the public, so it was correct at the time (and I don't remember seeing anything since that reversed this particular decision).

Hey,

The following is from the most recent draft of the REG I have access to.

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An ignore ability has four parts:
(1) it grants the ignoring card immunity to all cards being ignored
(2) it grants the ignored cards immunity to the ignoring card
(3) characters not in battle and ignored cannot enter battle (i.e., you cannot choose to bring them into battle and they cannot be targeted by an ability that would bring them into battle)
(4) characters already in battle and ignored are treated as though they were not in battle for purposes of determining battle outcome

An ignore ability is ongoing.  Part (1) above targets the cards that gain the ignore status.  Parts (2) and (4) above target the cards that are ignored.  Part (3) above has no target.

Playing an immune ability after an ignore is pointless, because it's redundant to part (2) of ignore.

But playing an immune ability before an ignore stops part (4) from targeting you.  It doesn't stop part (1) and part (2) in then redundant to the immune ability.  So you end up with mutual immunity if immune is followed by an ignore.

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly

I am assuming this would hold true if you interrupted the ignore and then became Immune, correct?