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I have HHI up. My opponent Gathers his The Generous Widow.Household IdolsPlay As: ... Ignore good banding cards. ..Gathering of AngelsType: Hero Enh. Play As: ...gains the ability "Band to any Hero...
Ignore is a special ability that protects a card from being defeated, harmed, or affected by the ignored card. It also prevents the card with ignore from harming or affecting the ignored card. An ignore card stops an ignored character from entering the Field of Battle.
@CS: I suppose that's true. Does this mean "Household Idols ignores good banding cards"? If that is indeed the case, why can it prevent banding on heroes? That is harming them (different alignments), and you can't harm them if you're ignoring them.
Here's my take. Household Idols is the card doing the ignoring, so that's what's protected from harm against good banding cards. (So they couldn't play a hypothetical territory class enhancement that would discard it, for instance.) The ECs don't factor into this equation at all. As for entering battle, it doesn't matter what's ignoring the Hero, as long as a Hero is being ignored by something, it cannot enter battle.
Interrupting/negating/preventing does not fall under the definition of harm (see the big Protection of Angels brouhaha from a couple years back).
...artifacts have to work differently from characters because of how each activates and interacts with Battle. Ignores on artifacts such as Household Idols are universal ignores whereas ignores on characters allow the character to ignore but are not universal ignores (unless a card specifically states otherwise).
so what happens when such a quote gets purged from the boards?
"Good banding cards have no effect" is old-timey language for "Ignore good banding cards." The phrase "have/has no effect" doesn't have a distinct definition from "are/is ignored."
Quote from: TimMierz on December 21, 2011, 04:09:09 PM"Good banding cards have no effect" is old-timey language for "Ignore good banding cards." The phrase "have/has no effect" doesn't have a distinct definition from "are/is ignored."Source? REG, Rulebook? As a host that would not be the conclusion I come to from a plain reading of the card.
The word “repel” and the phrases “has no effect,” “may not be blocked by,” and “cannot enter battle” mean the same as “ignore”.
REG:QuoteThe word “repel” and the phrases “has no effect,” “may not be blocked by,” and “cannot enter battle” mean the same as “ignore”.
IgnoreIgnore is a special ability that protects a card from being defeated, harmed, or affected by the ignored card. It also prevents the card with ignore from harming or affecting the ignored card. An ignore card stops an ignored character from entering the Field of Battle. An ignore ability can be a successful blocking or rescuing card. Ignore is the same as “has no effect” and repel.
Quote from: Red Wing on December 21, 2011, 04:55:52 PMREG:QuoteThe word “repel” and the phrases “has no effect,” “may not be blocked by,” and “cannot enter battle” mean the same as “ignore”.Is that from the old REG? I cannot not find it the new one, the closest I could find is:QuoteIgnoreIgnore is a special ability that protects a card from being defeated, harmed, or affected by the ignored card. It also prevents the card with ignore from harming or affecting the ignored card. An ignore card stops an ignored character from entering the Field of Battle. An ignore ability can be a successful blocking or rescuing card. Ignore is the same as “has no effect” and repel.
Even so, Mr. Runks, the last sentence of the Ignore excerpt you quoted says "Ignore is the same as 'has no effect' and repel."
