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by Zakath
Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:28 pm
Forum: Worlds
Topic: Worlds 2023 Report
Replies: 0
Views: 657

Worlds 2023 Report

When I saw the announcement that the USA was hosting Worlds for the first time in many years, I was determined to do my best to attend and play. It was a sobering realization that it would actually be my first competitive tournament appearance in over 15 (!) years, the last being Worlds 2007. It had...
by Zakath
Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:35 am
Forum: Rules Questions & Debate (unofficial)
Topic: Active conditions of effect of Black Arrow
Replies: 21
Views: 1095

Re: Active conditions of effect of Black Arrow

I think your examples are consistent with how I understand it, yeah. I think Konrad has a good point though - what about things that aren't normally thought of as actions? Is flipping over a company's new site card an action? Is transitioning to a new phase of the turn an action? I'm not sure! If a ...
by Zakath
Sun Oct 01, 2023 3:18 am
Forum: Rules Questions & Debate (unofficial)
Topic: Active conditions of effect of Black Arrow
Replies: 21
Views: 1095

Re: Active conditions of effect of Black Arrow

Now you've got me going back to the very beginning with these stupid passive condition rules. ICE's vague language strikes again! And I believe the answer lies in the MELE glossary: Condition, passive: An action that causes another action to take effect. The triggered action will be the first declar...
by Zakath
Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:44 am
Forum: Rules Questions & Debate (unofficial)
Topic: Active conditions of effect of Black Arrow
Replies: 21
Views: 1095

Re: Active conditions of effect of Black Arrow

Are you suggesting that because Black Arrow discards itself, it cancels the originally intended action of modifying an attack? Isn't this handled by Annotations 9 and 9a? Annotation 9: If a card specifies that an action is to occur as a result of some specific passive condition, this action becomes ...
by Zakath
Thu Sep 21, 2023 10:47 pm
Forum: Drafts
Topic: Draft of CoE Digest #201 Q1 - The White Tree + Wizard's Trove - Open until September 24th
Replies: 4
Views: 512

Re: Draft of CoE Digest #201 Q1 - The White Tree + Wizard's Trove - Open until September 24th

I support the interpretation offered here - the Unique keyword should be ignored when the White Tree is played via Wizard's Trove. Saplings aren't unique, so why couldn't multiple saplings grow into multiple fully-fledged White Trees? But for thematic reasons, one thing I would personally like to se...
by Zakath
Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:58 pm
Forum: 2019 Annual Rules Vote - Submissions
Topic: Fifteen Birds in Five Firtrees
Replies: 53
Views: 30641

Re: Fifteen Birds in Five Firtrees

I would just like to reiterate my example from earlier in this thread, and bring up one of the Balrog's weapons: Unique. Balrog specific. Playable at any tapped or untapped non-Darkhaven Under-deeps site. May only be borne by The Balrog. This item affects The Balrog. +1 prowess when tapping to face ...
by Zakath
Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:50 pm
Forum: Rules Questions & Debate (unofficial)
Topic: Facing Auto Attack repeatedly in a turn?
Replies: 9
Views: 7702

Re: Facing Auto Attack repeatedly in a turn?

Except we know that companies were never intended to have to face automatic attacks more than once per turn (Tidings of Bold Spies aside). It's not like multiple-resource-per-turn deck strategies are something new. They've been around literally as long as this game has. There was ample opportunity t...
by Zakath
Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:37 pm
Forum: 2019 Annual Rules Vote - Submissions
Topic: Thrall of the Voice: Character Play Restrictions
Replies: 82
Views: 39634

Re: Thrall of the Voice: Character Play Restrictions

This is another example of ICE's super-sloppy wording. It's my opinion that this card was intended to do only two things: allow FW access to 6 mind characters, and/or allow the play of agents at Wizardhavens instead of only at their home site. All other requirements for such a character needed to be...
by Zakath
Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:03 pm
Forum: Rules Questions & Debate (unofficial)
Topic: (Easy way of) killing of Spider of the Môrlat (?)
Replies: 38
Views: 24375

Re: (Easy way of) killing of Spider of the Môrlat (?)

My opinion - which is based on almost 20 years playing experiance on a high tournament level - is that you receive “kill” MP only by defeating either a hazard creature or a hazard event card that is not also a creature and has an associated attack while played as an event and has a MP value in the ...
by Zakath
Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:03 pm
Forum: Rules Questions & Debate (unofficial)
Topic: Non-RW Company (ex. Heedless)
Replies: 7
Views: 6001

Re: Non-RW Company (ex. Heedless)

But in the good ole URD they have: » A Ringwraith company may not use region movement. » A company with the Balrog in it may not use region movement. Maybe that can be cleaned up in the revised URD, because in my opinion the line about the Balrog is unnecessary - and as we see here, is causing conf...
by Zakath
Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:07 pm
Forum: 2019 Annual Rules Vote - Submissions
Topic: Bring Our Curses Home + Ahunts
Replies: 24
Views: 12713

Re: Bring Our Curses Home + Ahunts

Perhaps this should be split off into its own post? It's gone kind of meta - more about the rule-making process than about Bring Our Curses Home. Any references to NetRep rulings made in errata could make an impression that NetRep rulings are "first class citizen" statements i.e. that they...
by Zakath
Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:01 pm
Forum: 2019 Annual Rules Vote - Submissions
Topic: Bring Our Curses Home + Ahunts
Replies: 24
Views: 12713

Re: Bring Our Curses Home + Ahunts

NetRep rulings are not "first class citizen" statements in the game. They are interpretation of rules. Wrong decision of judge in football match does not need and should not be corrected at the level of rules of football. Konrad, this might be how you personally feel (and might be a true ...
by Zakath
Fri Mar 15, 2019 4:08 pm
Forum: 2019 Annual Rules Vote - Submissions
Topic: Master of Wood, Water, or Hill
Replies: 13
Views: 6831

Re: Master of Wood, Water, or Hill

CDavis, the reason I had that digest ready to recall when I saw this topic is I went digging for a ruling on short-events to understand how to interpret the minion resource Come By Night Upon Them, as I was considering including it in a deck. It is another one that doesn't have any text expressing h...
by Zakath
Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:24 pm
Forum: 2019 Annual Rules Vote - Submissions
Topic: Master of Wood, Water, or Hill
Replies: 13
Views: 6831

Re: Master of Wood, Water, or Hill

Also with an earlier digest, #31 : If a short event's text doesn't indicate a duration for its effect, the effect lasts until the end of the turn It seems like there was an understanding once that short-events inherently did not last beyond the current turn. Perhaps a new, official clarification to ...
by Zakath
Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:11 pm
Forum: 2019 Annual Rules Vote - Submissions
Topic: WITHDRAWN - Face Out of Sight
Replies: 31
Views: 11767

Re: Face Out of Sight

The Under-roads is a short-event, so there is every reason to expect discarding to occur only when the card resolves. Check again. The Under-roads is a long-event. This is wrong in the spoiler list hosted by CoE. My apologies. No worries. Curious, though. The spoilers that the Dutch site hosts on m...

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