"Bane of the Ithil-stone is discarded and cannot be played."The Ithil-stone wrote:Unique. Palantír. Playable at Barad-dûr. When a character taps to play Ithil-stone, make a roll (draw a #). If this result plus the number of scouts in his company is greater than 9, Ithil-stone is successfully played. Otherwise, the bearer is eliminated and Ithil-stone is placed in your out of play pile. Bearer makes a corruption check at the end of each of his untap phases. Bane of the Ithil-stone is discarded and cannot be played. If The Lidless Eye is in play, its player's hand size decreases by two.
uses passive verb tense. Right?
If so and the sentence should be read as continuous effect, then "and cannot be played" is redundant.
Or maybe it should be read as an action executed when The Ithil-stone is successfully played. Then "and cannot be played" does not make a sense at all. And if so read "If The Lidless Eye is in play, its player's hand size decreases by two.", then a Sauron player's hand would be reduced permanently, regardless of The Ithil-stone's future presence in play.