Fatima's Special vs Direct Intervention

Can Direct Intervention be used to cancel a weapon that Fatima equips with using her special card text (during combat)? In other words, does that equip effect count as "playing" the card?

Thanks in advance!

Fatima al-Faqadi
[for][CEL][OBF][QUI]
[Assamite] Capacity: 8, Group: 2
Independent: Once per combat, before range is determined, Fatima may equip with a weapon from your hand. Pay the cost to equip as normal. Blood cursed.

Direct Intervention
Master: out-of-turn. 1 pool.
Cancel a minion card as it is played. No cost is paid. (If it was an action card, the acting minion doesn't tap. If it was a strike card, the minion chooses another strike.)

No. You cannot DI Fatima's special. In the same way you cannot DI an Ivory Bow that was Disguised into play.

But could you DI the Disguised?

kschaefer wrote: No. You cannot DI Fatima's special. In the same way you cannot DI an Ivory Bow that was Disguised into play.

What was the logic on this ruling? There was something of a discussion recently about playing cards, cards entering play, etc.

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Mewcat wrote:

kschaefer wrote: No. You cannot DI Fatima's special. In the same way you cannot DI an Ivory Bow that was Disguised into play.

What was the logic on this ruling? There was something of a discussion recently about playing cards, cards entering play, etc.

It's from the rules team in 2000, listed on the cards rulings page:

Can only burn minion cards played from the hand in the normal fashion (not weapons played via Disguised Weapon or equipment played via Pier 13, for example). [RTR 20001020]

EDIT: here's the original RTR post .

jtroyve wrote: But could you DI the Disguised?

Of course.