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1. The "negate sites" ability applies to either form of King Abijam, as long as the condition is met.

2. I'm not sure if a more specific definition has been created, but traditionally a banding card must have a band ability that could activate as soon as it enters battle. Since King Amaziah's SA has a conditional trigger, it did not used to be considered a "banding card." However, note that if King Amaziah is captured, HHI would prevent the band.

I also believe that "Ignore" rules have changed, and the character can still enter battle, but still be ignored. Can someone else verify that?

1. The "negate sites" ability applies to either form of King Abijam, as long as the condition is met.

2. I'm not sure if a more specific definition has been created, but traditionally a banding card must have a band ability that could activate as soon as it enters battle. Since King Amaziah's SA has a conditional trigger, it did not used to be considered a "banding card." However, note that if King Amaziah is captured, HHI would prevent the band.

I also believe that "Ignore" rules have changed, and the character can still enter battle, but still be ignored. Can someone else verify that?

1. Correct.

2. Add to battle only counts as a band if a character is already on the same side of that battle so if Amaziah had been rescuing alone, he would not count as a band card. If he had been banded in and the other Hero was still in battle, then he would count as a band card.

The rule change made ignore default to play as it was changed to target the characters and not the field of battle any more so a character can enter battle even through ignore if they come from a location that is out of play (so deck/hand/set-aside work still) but upon reaching the field of battle they then become ignored. The idea would be to use, say, a King of Tyrus from hand to block a watchful servant thereby negating his ignore or to play a CBP/CBN band character from hand in the case of HHI.

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Here's a question:

The default conditions for ignore says:

Only Characters in the Field of Battle can ignore​​ other characters

Does HHI get around this because it superceeds this rule, because this rule refers to "other characters" and since HHI is an artifact, not a character, it doesn't count, or does HHI not get to ignore anymore?