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Can you play dominants between the winning enhancement and the negate being played?

If I make a rescue with a blue guy, they block, I play Book of Hozai - get nothing, then play Book of Jasher and draw SoG, NJ, and Abe's Servant.  I don't want to negate my draw so I pass.  Then they play a capture card.  Can I play my SoG,NJ and then play my Abe's Servant?

When they play the capture card, is my hero physically in battle, land of bondage, or sort of both?  Could they play their Burial on my hero after the capture card to make it unnegatable?

There was a similar question asked last year about using Angel of the Lord on your own evil character but I'm now questioning it.  The person wanted to play an evil battle winner and then Angel of Lord their own guy so the opponent couldn't negate it.  It was ruled at the time that you could still negate the enhancement even though it was no longer in play because otherwise how could you negate cards like Deluge of Rain.  I think those scenarios are different.  To my understanding you can negate Deluge of Rain because the rule about all cards completing has the exception of battle winners allowing the opponent a chance to interrupt or negate.  So you try to capture the hero but the hero is not really captured yet because he negates it while it is still in play.  But if you use Angel of the Lord on the evil character then he is gone and the enhancement is immediately discarded by game rule.  This is unnegatable; the enhancement or character can't be brought back, right?  Now I think a negate the last evil enhancement played would still work but I don't see how Zeal or negate evil in play would work.

Your SoG-then-Abe's Servant play is legal as far as I can tell.

So is burying a Hero captured immediately.

Them discarding their character really has nothing to do with your ability to play your negate on your character against his battle winner.  So I think that negate should still be legal if most - if not all - circumstances.  Negate-in-play is a little more tricky but I think the answer is the same.

As long as the discard happens first in the sequence, the removal would apply.  Pretty sure they can still negate that, though.

oh, well, I guess if you're playing the negate on the same character, probably not.

you can't insert the dominant before the capture completing, and if you allow the capture to complete you've passed on the opportunity to play the negate.

This makes sense assuming that the only hero in battle was being captured.

It would seem to indicate that if the only hero in battle was captured, that Burial also would not be allowed to insert itself until after there was an opportunity to play the negate.

There is, but the ability of the first card must complete before you play the next card.  By playing the Dominant, you are basically conceding that your character was allowed to be captured.