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No, Evil SAs that specifically target good cards do not convert.

Woah, actually I was slightly wrong. I always thought it was "good cards," but it's actually "Heroes," which means a lot of cards I didn't think converted actually do!

Ah, that's true. I misread EMS.

So, yes, you could discard a hero even if the weapon is converted to good.

Is there a reason it's only Heroes and not Good Cards?

It might go all the way back to the precedent set by the Warriors Gabriel being able to discard a Good Enhancement from opponent's deck.

IIRC, the original rule was that a converted ability could not harm a Hero because we thought it still made sense for someone to be able to band Saph and Goliath if they both got converted to Heroes (as one example).

However, when harm was later defined as any ability that targets a character of opposite alignment (or when a character is targeted by a neutral card), then the harm rule no longer worked.

What we don't want is for ECs converted to Heroes and evil weapons converted to good weapons to be able to target other Heroes. Is that no longer feasible if we want the abilities of converted weapons to continue to work? Perhaps, and that warrants a discussion.