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If I have Self Control on my hero and I use Sarah's Jealousy to make my opponent rescue with my The Generous Widow, what, if anything, happens?

Self Control: Place on your clay or teal Hero: Protect your hand and deck from opponents' cards.

Sarah's Jealousy: Holder may choose the Hero opponent uses to make a rescue attempt this turn.

The Generous Widow: All players discard two cards from hand and draw two cards. Cannot be negated.

I thought that would be the case. Back to the drawing board . . .

Yeah, but RBD is countered by so many things nowadays. BTW, was that combo the basis of the defense, or just a cool combo splashed with something bigger like Babs or Heretics?

Yeah, but RBD is countered by so many things nowadays. BTW, was that combo the basis of the defense, or just a cool combo splashed with something bigger like Babs or Heretics?

It was actually Disuading Speech (though the original decklist was Babs w/ Sarah's Jealousy) that I ended up going with in a Judges/AssyrianMagician T2 deck. That combo wasn't the main focus, but if I was also able to combine it with a Words of Discouragement even just once, it typically put me at such a huge hand advantage that it was nearly impossible for my opponent to recover, especially if they had no way to get rid of RBD in order to catch up on drawing.