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Some of these scenarios came up in play recently so I want to make sure we have some clarification to ensure we played them correctly.

1. If I have CoW Moses out, then activate Covenant with Death, would the lost souls and/or TC characters with ongoing abilities reactivate in the next phase? What if in the next prep phase I deactivate CwD, would those lost souls and characters be affected, or does something have to happen to Moses, such as he enters battle or sent to hand or deck then put back into play?

2. If I use The Deceiver to block Two Witnesses, and Deceiver exchanges with an human EC in my deck, when the battle ends does the Deceiver get discarded along with the human EC, or no since the Deceiver is out of play? What if the human EC was underdecked during battle too? Would he stay underdecked or get removed from the deck and discarded?

3. If my CoW Moses is captured with Seize Him, then I use You Will Remain and bring in another hero, I have initiative by the numbers, so I play Faith of Moses and negate Seize Him, what happens? Will this cascade negate YWR, kicking my other hero out of battle and thus negating Faith of Moses, or is there no effect since YWR wasn’t played in battle but territory?

4. Can I use Burial on a captured human? I would assume yes if that captured human can be rescued by SoG.

5. When Habbakuk’s or any other character’s ability that has “After battle...” does that character have to still be in play in order for that ability to trigger, or does it happen regardless if the hero is still in play or not?

6. Famine’s and The Murdering Pharaoh’s decrease abilities: are these permanent decreases or do they last only until end of battle? I would assume permanent, even if Famine and TMP left play.

3. You play Faith of Moses on Moses during SI and don't use YWR in the first place. I think it cascades and you wind up in that situation anyway.

I'm pretty sure you actually would end up with Moses and the other Hero in battle because You Will Remain is a triggered ability that wouldn't be affected by the cascade. I could be wrong but I think that's the way I've seen it played.

1. The Souls and TC Characters should reactivate. When CwD is deactivated, Moses reactivates as a prevent, so he doesn't do anything to the Souls and characters already on the table.

That’s what I thought but wouldn’t his negate of the souls and enhancements in territory occur once he enters battle again?

3. You play Faith of Moses on Moses during SI and don't use YWR in the first place. I think it cascades and you wind up in that situation anyway.

I would have played FoM if I had SI but that wasn’t the scenario. The scenario was I had Moses in battle, played of faith of Samuel and banded in David the psalmist and either underdecked the three or kept them from the draw 3, which is what gave me Faith of Moses. My opponent captured my Moses. He still had initiative and did something via special ability to David (something I couldn’t use FoM on), which triggered YWR. I then added Two Witnesses to battle and had initiative. I played FoM and targeted Seize Him, which would bring back Moses.

How would Faith of Moses be negated? It's a cloud card...

However, in the general case, let's say this happens.

I attack with Hero A (no special ability).

You block and play an EE to discard Hero A.

I use YWR to add The Strong Angel (WA) who then negates the EE.

Hero A comes back and The Strong Angel also remains in battle, which remains FBTN.

Will this cascade negate YWR, kicking my other hero out of battle and thus negating Faith of Moses, or is there no effect since YWR wasn’t played in battle but territory?

The above was what I was referring to.

If Moses is captured (thus turning off his negate ability) and the capture is later negated, Moses is back in battle and once again negating things.

YWR is no longer in play to be negated. It's in discard because it was triggered.