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This came up with a game I was playing by myself (yea...).

I have Hidden Treasures active and I start a battle with a prophet.  I chose to play Vision.  I chose the two evil character who fight.  My question is, after the side battle is over, does he then chose who to block with or is he stuck with the winner of the side battle (even if the winner is my EC)?

Hidden Treasures

Type: Artifact • Brigade: • Ability: None • Class: None • Special Ability: Once per turn, if your lone green brigade prophet begins a battle, you may play an Enhancement or discard an evil Enhancement in an opponent's deck.

Visions

Type: Hero Enh. • Brigade: Green • Ability: 2 / 3 • Class: None • Special Ability: Select one of your Evil Characters to fight a blocking Evil Character. Prevent all special abilities on opponent’s Enhancements during that battle.

True, so let's use Sword Of The Lord instead.

kk.  Thanks

Any characters that survive the side battle return to where they were before the side battle.  So your opponent would get to choose who they block with.

But they could not re-enter the field of battle with either of the characters that were in the side battle, correct?

Is that anytime they leave the field of battle, or when they use a withdraw ability?

The REG (which may be out of date) mentions that characters that withdraw from battle can't re-enter the same battle.  It also says characters that withdraw from battle can re-enter a different battle on the same turn, but that may be a typo.  Not sure what restrictions apply to characters who returned to territory because their battle ended.  Can you block a second RA (via The Long Day) with the same EC that blocked the first one?

The restriction is on characters who withdraw.  I sometimes say "leave" but I mean the same thing.  I usually don't think of a character returning to territory AFTER a battle as leaving the battle.  But I see how you could get that idea.