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No, because it's really errata. Disregard any errata disguised as play-as.

Also, YMT, that's just silly. And very, very contrary to the way rulings have been made for a long time and intuitive reading of cards and rules.

I always thought WoP also protected you from side battles....

It does. Not sure why the Play As was added...it severely limits what WoP is supposed to do, and has been ruled to do for years. It stops any action that would force a character in your opponent's territory into battle, including banding, CtB, and side battles.

As to the Goliath question, forced drawing was ruled to be allowed while JT is up (so that Mayhem doesn't make a JT player have no hand) so I would rule the same way here: since your opponent is the one to take the action of putting the character into battle, just like it is his action of drawing the cards, I would say that he is allowed to do that.

Also, I think YMT is right on actually. Centurion's Proclamation is a convert ability on an opponent's card, and Judas says:
Protect this evil character from convert and discard abilities on opponent’s cards while he remains in play. Cannot be negated.

What rulings are you referring to, Polarius? It would help to know, just in case this topic needs to be more closely examined by the elders. I thought we had solved issues like this (opponent's actions on your cards) when JT was changed to a protect.

Also, I thought the reason forced drawing still worked is because of the wording on JT (drawing not being considered "removed from deck" for Redemption purposes), not because of a universal loophole on Protect that makes it stop Protecting if the card has "opponent must/may" wording on it.

This was my understanding as well.

Well, technically, the opponent isn't removing it.

Either way is a little confusing. But I believe it's far more expedient and better for the game to simply exclude "drawing" from "removing from deck," just like Eve is totally different than Susanna, rather than making "opponent may/must" get around all protection.