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1) Say my one Hero in battle is being specifically (and only) targeted for removal (say, discard) during a rescue attempt, triggering Special Initiative, by an ability that isn't CBI/CBN (like Tenants Kill the Son). Can I play Battle Cry to add a Hero to battle, even if that Hero isn't someone like Ahimelek the Hittite who will remove a blocking EC, in order to still have a Hero in battle and continue fighting after my first one is discarded?

2) What if I used Battle Cry to band in a CTB Hero like Asahel - would all of the blocking ECs be removed and replaced by the EC I chose to block, even in the midst of the special initiative?

Thanks!

Awesome - thank you!

No, in jesse's scenario SI occurs when the lone hero is being removed from battle with single target removal.  Battle Cry can interrupt that removal and add a character to battle.  Once it resolves, the interrupted ability will complete and remove the original hero, but now there's another hero and the battle continues with normal initiative rules.

but from what I could tell from the scenario it seemed like he was saying that he had multiple heroes in battle and 1 was being discarded.

1) Say my one Hero in battle is being specifically (and only) targeted for removal

Nope.

I mean I don't want to get into a semantics debate, because it's beside the point, but the edit was at 3:24am which was before anyone actually replied to the thread.

Sufficed to say, the scenario involved a single hero getting removed which does, as jmhartz confirmed, grant special initiative. You can, in that situation, use Battle Cry to band someone in to continue the battle.