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if i am using unknown nation, but my opponent plays an enhancement that interupts a card and discards it, can they target unknown nation? had this happen once but i dont remember what the other card was.

if i am using unknown nation, but my opponent plays an enhancement that interupts a card and discards it, can they target unknown nation? had this happen once but i dont remember what the other card was.

If you have already discarded Unknown Nation to use its ability, and you had it activated as a curse on the artifact pile, there is no card currently that could stop it because it in-and-of-itself cannot cause the losing condition, and so it would be out of play before any special initiative would allow you to play a targeted negate/interrupt against it as an evil card.  You cannot target cards out of play unless they create a losing condition (see Invoking Terror).

If you hadn't activated it, then they can discard it in any way they would normally be able to as a curse/artifact.

If you used it as an enhancement, and it was the last enhancement played, and you discarded it from battle, then I believe an Interrupt the Battle could target it.

  You cannot target cards out of play unless they create a losing condition (see Invoking Terror).

However, Unholy Writ is the same as Unknown Nation in that once it hits the discard pile it cannot be stopped and it does create a losing condition.

P.S. Don't worry, this question didn't interrupt anything. *see subject*

Quote from: Redoubter on May 29, 2012, 07:07:09 AM

  You cannot target cards out of play unless they create a losing condition (see Invoking Terror).

However, Unholy Writ is the same as Unknown Nation in that once it hits the discard pile it cannot be stopped and it does create a losing condition.

The reason Unholy Writ cannot be stopped is because no cards can target and negate an artifact before discarding it, so nothing is currently worded in such a way that it could stop it.  Evil cards are different