Macabre while the Macabre unit is Entrapped

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Question: A unit with a Macabre line is Entrapped when something dies. Does the line fire?
Answer: Yes, and then it loses only the parts that point back at the Entrapped unit.

900.19aEntrap gates what a unit receives. It does not stop a unit from hearing an event, so the death is heard and the Macabre line resolves normally.
900.19bEach clause is then checked against its own recipient. A self power gain, a self Speed gain, a self heal, and granting itself Everlasting all name the Entrapped unit as the recipient, so all four produce nothing.
900.19cA clause naming other units keeps working. Adjacent-ally buffs land on each adjacent ally that passes the ally gate, and board-wide clauses — reducing every enemy's Focus, Envenoming every Dreaded enemy — land on each enemy that passes the recipient gate.
900.19dThose recipients are gated individually, so an Entrapped ally beside the Macabre unit still receives nothing, and an Entrapped enemy is still skipped.
900.19eThe other gates apply as always on top of that. A Relentless enemy refuses the Focus reduction as a stat reduction and refuses the Venom as a blocked status, so a board-wide Macabre clause can resolve and still change nothing.
900.19fNone of this survives the unit's own death. A dead unit stops listening to Macabre entirely — but a Phylactery revival puts it back on the board mid-round, and it hears every death after that.