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I was under the impression that you can't use Cov. of Noah to negate cards like FO because the card is in the discard pile. Am I correct?

Also, do you need initiative to play Covenant of Noah?

Covenant of Noah
Type: Covenant • Brigade: Blue • Ability: 2 / 5 • Class: None • Special Ability: Use as an enhancement or an Artifact. Interrupt and prevent one evil enhancement. Discard after use. • Identifiers: OT • Verse: Genesis 9:1

Since the card doesn't say "in play" you can probablly negate it from the discard, right?

Actually it was.  Players are always encouraged to post abilities.

Ah, I knew there was some reason behind your post. I just couldn't figure it out, thanks.

Covenant of Noah
Type: Covenant • Brigade: Blue • Ability: 2 / 5 • Class: None • Special Ability: Use as an enhancement or an Artifact. Interrupt and prevent one evil enhancement. Discard after use. • Identifiers: OT • Verse: Genesis 9:1 • Availability: Patriarchs booster packs (Common)

If I play Cov. of Noah I get to pick the Enhancment that is Interupted and prevented?
Also if none of the Evil Enhancements have SA on it what happens when Cov. of Noah is played?

If I play Cov. of Noah I get to pick the Enhancment that is Interupted and prevented?

Yes.

Also if none of the Evil Enhancements have SA on it what happens when Cov. of Noah is played?

As an enhancement: It has no ability to negate, so your hero just gains 2/5.
As an artifact: I think you can try to negate a no-SA card, but I'm not sure...?

Interesting.  I've always encouraged my playgroup to use Cov of Noah to negate Death of Unrighteous, Failed Objective and the like.  I've probably even done it a few times myself.  For some reason I was under the impression Cov of Noah was one of the few ways to stop those "coward blocks".

I do believe that Scott is right, though.  The default for all targets is cards in play so Cov of Noah can't target cards in the discard pile (out of play).  Not sure how I missed that one.

That makes sense, however I am not convinced that failed objective is actually in the discard pile. You should be able to negate something if you can. I don't think the card should go to the discard pile before I get a chance to negate it.  Semantically this seems worng. Like when I play WOS the battle doesn't go completely to battle resolution. I get a chance to negate wrath I should be able to negate Failed objective if I can

If we want to say that abilities complete before you can use Covenant with Noah then you cannot us CwN against,

Arrogance+ any enhancements+ End the battle card

Any Horses+ CBN Battle winner

Bells Banquet or any other EE that says discard to do ....

Doesn't Cov-o-Noah negate numbers also? Because, it just says "negate an enhancement," not "negate the SA of an enhancement."

Correct. Interrupt and prevent is like your opponent never played that card, which include the numbers.

So, you can use Covenant of Noah to negate a card with no SA to get rid of the numbers. That's why it's a good thing to use as an artifact with a Fight-By-The-Numbers character.

Eric "yay artifact that can negate enhancements" Largent

Doesn't interrupt/prevent/negate refer to the special ability of a card, not the numbers? If not that doesn't make a lot of sense imo....

EDIT: I guess the part that is confusing me is this quote

A negate ability interrupts a special ability, and then prevents that special ability for the rest of the battle.