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Due to the Errata, Satan's Folly has to be played before the discard card is played. So if you play Satan's Folly on your hero and then your opponent uses Christian Martyr, you can discard an EC in an opponent's territory. But if your opponent plays Christian Martyr on your hero, you can't reactively play Satan's Folly to heal your hero like you can with other healing cards

Let me just get this clear. Lets say it is my discard phase and it is not even his turn yet. I play Christian Martyr on his hero. Can he play Satan's Folly even though it is not his turn? What If I played Christian Martyr on his hero in battle, could he play it even though he might not have initiative?

Satan's folly is not a real healing card so it can't be played outside of battle.  Also, as mentioned above, the person with the hero has to play Satan's Folly before Christian Martyr is played.  Even though it does saves you from being discarded, it still must follow all rules on playing regular enhancements.

No.  It's "insteading" it.

The ability is not interrupted or stopped in any way.  It just says if you try to discard this character, you end up discarding that other character instead.

Well, besides when CM is played, you could use an ITB and then play it .

No Dominants cannot be interuppted.

Hence why I said besides when CM is played.

How do you know to play it when it is 'about to be discarded'? Is it just poorly worded? It reminds me of Enoch's ability.

"About to be discarded" and "is being discarded" are the same thing. The about to be discarded terminology came from the old days, when Elisha's Bones and Bread of Life were the preeminent healing cards, and when most discarded heroes came as a result of not having enough toughness to face Goliath; very few abilities actually discarded heroes, aside from CM. Satan's folly only works differently than other healing cards because of the "later this battle" part of it, which means that it must be played before the hero is discarded, not while it is happening.

I don't foresee SF getting any further errata/Play As anytime soon. It is functional (although, as you said, mostly useless) as is, but then again, a lot of cards share that same fate.

In this case it translates to discarded in the future, but on other cards like David's harp it translates to was discarded as well.

The reason for that is that it is an Enhancement that has to be played in battle, and therefore, you can't play it on your character if he was already discarded.

David's Harp may be triggered BY a battle with a discarded character, but you made it your active Artifact beforehand.  So in that regard they work the same.