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Can you use reach of desperation to play words of encouragement to play he is risen or do the interrupts interrupt your own abilities from happening?

Reach of Desperation would interrupt Lydia's ongoing ability of being able to play purple enhancements, but you may still play white enhancements such as Words and He is Risen!. You could not however play Words and then Reach, or Words/Reach and then AoCP.

Actually you could as long as you opted out of the interrupt. If you had normal initiative you could choose to not interrupt, but then choose to draw and play next.

thats interesting about the transfer of may abilities to every aspect of the ability . . . thanks for the help and clarification

One more quick question

Can Salome (white heroine)  search for something like I am Mercy

And does I am Mercy stop RBD?

You will get an answer shortly, but FYI, you would get an answer faster if you posted abilities with the question. You can go to the REG to copy and paste the ability.

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Salome (RA)
Type: Hero Char. • Brigade: White • Ability: 7 / 6 • Class: None • Special Ability: Search deck for The Garden Tomb or a N.T. Covenant and put it in hand. Hero ignores Evil Characters holding weapons. • Play As: Search deck for The Garden Tomb or a N.T. Covenant and place it in hand. Hero ignores all Evil Characters holding weapons. • Identifiers: NT Female Human • Verse: Mark 16:1 • Availability: Rock of Ages booster packs (None)

I Am Mercy (AW)
Type: Covenant • Brigade: Purple • Ability: 2 / 5 • Class: None • Special Ability: Protect holder's hand and draw pile from discard abilities on evil cards. • Identifiers: OT, Involves Music • Verse: Psalms 103:8 • Availability: Angel Wars booster packs (Common)

Rain Becomes Dust (Pi)
Type: Curse • Brigade: Gray • Ability: 1 / 5 • Class: None • Special Ability: All cards that an opponent draws because of a special ability used by that opponent are revealed instead. Place all revealed Lost Souls in opponent’s territory. Discard the rest. • Play As: If an opponent activates a draw ability, reveal the cards instead. Place all revealed Lost Souls in opponent’s territory and discard the rest. • Identifiers: None • Verse: Deuteronomy 28:24 • Availability: Priests booster packs (Uncommon)

First, Salome specifies NT covenant, and I am Mercy is OT.

For your second question, this is from the REG:

Instant Abilities > Draw > How to Play
A draw ability moves the targeted card from the top of a player's deck to that player's hand. All draw abilities are instantaneous. A draw ability targets the cards on top of a player's deck.

Since the target of the draw is on the deck, and RBD is trying to target the same card, and I am Mercy protects the deck, I would argue that I am Mercy protects from RBD. However, I am not an Elder, so you will have to wait for their response.

Rain Becomes Dust has two parts:

If opponent would draw, he reveals instead.
Revealed things are discarded or put into Land of Bondage as appropriate.

I Am Mercy protects from part of the second ability. Cards are revealed, not drawn, and souls are put in the Land of Bondage, and the remainder are placed back on top of the deck, not discarded.

What I said is consistent with ProfessorAlstad in May 2011:

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on May 28, 2011, 10:14:23 PM

Yes. They are drawn and revealed as they are not protected from the reveal portion.

To clarify, they are not drawn (i.e. they don't go to hand) they are just revealed, and then returned to the top of deck. If Simon the Z's ability is active, then RBD has no effect at all on the deck, and cards are drawn as normal.

Later, in February 2012, he confirmed the Simon part, in a big discussion which may have been what you're talking about, but I don't think it touched on the "protect from discard" part of things:

In summary,
1. RBD will reveal and discard cards that would be drawn by Fishing Boat.
2. Simon will stop RBD from doing anything. Cards are drawn as normal.
3. RBD does not change the ability of Reach in the slightest; it just changes the outcome of Reach having been played.

If you can point me to something else, awesome, but I think what I posted is accurate.

Ah yes, now I remember the silly part of that discussion!