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Minister Pol. says that even if Invoking Terror goes beneath your deck, it can still be negated. It has always been my understanding that if that happens, you cannot negate it. True or False?

That's not correct. "Special initiative" has been ruled to take place in the state immediately prior to the removal of the character. Any normal Negate will work.

That's not correct. "Special initiative" has been ruled to take place in the state immediately prior to the removal of the character. Any normal Negate will work.

First of all, I think you're correct, but I'm not totally sure... because negates default to 'in play.'

In either case, even if Pol is correct, this would only be true if the only character in battle is being removed (and therefore you're losing by removal and get special initiate). If one of your two heroes is targeted, and then you have initiative, you can't play a normal negate.

That was not the outcome.

I am quite sure there's an even more recent one in which Prof U specifically defined special initiative in the exact same terms I did. I remember because there were some people who were mad about that and asked what that meant for situations like Arrogance+battle-winner followed by other things and never really got an answer.