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And on a related note, has the mess with "blocks" and multiple characters been resolved yet? Meaning, if I block with two demons, do I discard one card or two?

I vote for the Warrior's Spear ruling  

Did it enter battle?  Yes.  Was it negated?  No.  Then it works.  SWS can't use its ability unless it enters battle and blocks, so I would say the condition for Thorn in the Flesh was met.

As the Guardian said, most of the elders that have been involved in that discussion believe that each demon would block, so discarding multiple cards is possible. I know that the exchange happens first, as TitF is triggered and triggered abilties happen after other EC abilities.

Based on our discussion, I would rule that you still get to discard, but like I said, our proposed definition of blocks has not yet been confirmed by Rob.

Another issue: I'm pretty sure the Play As on TitF is wrong, nothing on the card says the Hero is protected from Healing, just the enhancement (which in most cases doesn't matter anyway, unless a healing card has an extra ability of discarding evil enhancements). Interestingly, however, The New Covenant can't discard TitF from an NT Hero, since it is a Healing card. Funny how that works.

you cant exchange great faith for great faith. In other games you could to create an infine loop aka engine but the rule in those games is that anytime you create an infinite loop like this you choose a number of how many times you do the loop. Believe me i do not want to be on the recieving end of a Thorn in the Flesh + SWS combo but from the looks of how they will soon rule TitF I probably will do it to someone else. Fun and Fellowship FTW!