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Mahari is still a banding card even if his banding ability is negated. He would be ignored for that battle.

Enhancements aren't ignored, only characters are ignored. HHI tries to prevent Transfig, but it cannot be prevented.

The Hero is not stopped from playing purple enhancements, but purple enhancements cannot affect the EC who is ignoring purple.

Ah okay, so Transfiguration basically works because banding cannot be ignored as it doesn't hurt the EC. In other words, the "good banding cards have no effect" would only ever apply to heroes?

HHI is both an ignore and a prevent. It ignores heroes with banding abilities, and prevents banding enhancments that can be prevented. Transfig is neither of those, so it works.

What about a card like He is Risen (Interrupt the battle and set aside X Evil Characters for X turns. You may add a N.T. angel to battle.)?
This is a "good banding card." Therefore it should be ignored, stopping the part that removes the EC from battle right?
I'm confused. Can an enhancement be ignored or not?

Abilities can be ignored, but enhancements can't (at least not in the same way as heroes). All that means is characters and enhancements from an ignored brigade, or enhancements played on an ignored character have no effect on the ignorer. The set-aside portion of He is Risen still works, as set-aside abilities aren't prevented by HHI. The banding ability of HIR is prevented by HHI.

He is Risen has both a banding ability and a set aside ability. HHI would prevent the banding ability, but not the set aside ability. I believe it's one of those "do as much of the effect as you can" instances.

Basically, ignoring an enhancement just makes an evil character immune to it, but does not stop it from working otherwise.

I do believe that is the case, yes.

Hey,

There is some confusion in this thread regarding the differences in the effect of the ignore on Household Idols and the effect of ignore abilities in general.

Generally speaking, an ignored card (character, enhancement, or anything else) cannot target the card that is ignoring it.  Additionally an ignored character (but not an ignored enhancement) that is not in battle cannot enter battle.

Household Idols prevents good banding abilities and ignores good banding cards.

So characters with banding abilities are ignored and thus cannot enter battle because of the secondary effect of ignore stated above.  Characters with banding abilities also cannot target the card that is ignoring them (Household Idols) and their abilities are prevented by Household Idols, but those two points are generally irrelevant because when a character can't enter battle it's ability can't activate anyway.

Enhancements with banding abilities are also ignored by Household Idols.  Because enhancements are not characters they can still enter battle when Household Idols is active because the secondary effect of ignore does not affect them.  The first part of ignore does still affect them, so the banding enhancements cannot target Household Idols.  Since banding enhancements generally band and generally don't discard artifacts the first part of ignore is largely irrelevant to banding enhancements (although if a card existed that banded and discarded an artifact it would not be able to discard Household Idols).  That leave the prevent part of Household Idols as the  part of Household Idols that primarily affects good banding enhancements.  So good banding enhancements are prevented.  Since Transfiguration cannot be prevented, it works even when Household Idols is active, because none of the three effects of Household Idols apply to it.

Note that Elijah is a banding card so while Transfiguration works with Household Idols active, it can only band to Moses in such cases.

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly

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