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No, a card that just says Interrupt, without Prevent after it, stops the ability temporarily.

Example:

A purple hero is blocked by an EC, who then plays Wrath of Satan. The purple player could then play Reach of Desperation to temporarily stop Wrath, and play another card. If I played AoCP, it would discard their Evil Character before the interrupt ended, so the enhancement is basicly played on air, and "fizzles" so to speak.

So, reach did not negate Wrath, but allowed me to do something else to stop it. If I just play Reach though, and nothing else, my heroes will still be discarded.

ITs rare that I post in here, cause often I am wrong. But I thought that discard does not equal negate.....

Interrupt says, "I'm going to stop your ability temporarily, and go do this thing over here first."

Whenever you see "interrupt and prevent", just cross that out and write in negate.

... in your mind.  Don't deface the card.

So if I have a card that says "interrupt and discard", that translates to "I'm going to stop your ability temporarily, and then discard your Enhancement before it can happen.  Since your Enhancement is not in play any more, it can't do anything."

Or if it's a character, "I'm going to stop your ability temporarily, and then discard your character before that can happen.  If you are stuck without any characters you can use the Enhancement on, it does nothing since you have to play an Enhancement on a character to work."

Now say I have Lahmi and Saph and Goliath all in battle together: gold, gray and black.  You play Wrath of Stan.  I play Zeal, but I'm incredibly stupid so I discard Lahmi and Saph.  I discarded the two characters like the card says, but then the interrupt ends and Goliath is still there.  And his black Enhancement.  So after making that amazing play, I die anyway.

And yes, someone will come up with a scenario where it's strategically viable to kill those two guys and then still let Wrath work because they have some other combo cooked up or they want the opponent to sacrifice his Heroes or whatever.  Not the point.

Interrupt says, "I'm going to stop your ability temporarily, and go do this thing over here first."

I'mma let you finish but reach-aocp is the best negate of all time OF ALL TIME

But not as good as "kaCHUNK!" sandwiches.