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Change to Single Color Sites
Special abilities on single color Sites are always active, while in territory and while in battle. Previously they were not considered active while in battle. This does not apply to Sites that have a conditional ability (ex: While occupied,...). Those are still only active while the condition is met.

The special ability on a single-colored site is active only while it is occupied

Where in the REG does it say that?

*Edit* - It's in the rulebook section of the REG, which probably hasn't been changed, so it matches the print version.

The rule (prior to Gabe's post) was that single-color sites were active while they were in territory, but not in battle.  Some tried to abuse that by putting their Nazareth into battle so they could search, which necessitated the change Gabe posted.

I think the change from "only active while occupied" to "active in territory" came about with Herod's Dungeon, which requires itself to be unoccupied to work.

"Abuse" is such a mean word Aggie, I prefer "constructively used". It allowed me to search (not that I really needed to with a Disciples deck as this year has taught me) and prevented those pesky prophets from finding all of their search cards AND stopped ANB against me...