L. Scott Johnson#
PlaceYour...@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Place Your Full Name Here) writes:
>I May be a step bejind the times but the new ruling on roetshreck
>completely reverses what the card seems to be tring to accomplish....
It's not a new ruling, but it does reverse the intention of the card
(based on card text) as well as making a mockery of the nomenclature.
The ruling has been in its present form since 12/22/94:
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From: aa...@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas R Wylie)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad
Subject: Design Team Rulings: 12/22/94
Date: 23 Dec 1994 08:42:47 GMT
Message-ID: <3de2i7$4...@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Jyhad Rulings 12/22/94
2) Rotschreck: This card effects the vampire doing the damage.
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And was referred to in the Nov. 1, 1994 ruling as requiring a vampire
to be dealing agg. damage - that it could not be played if an ally was
dealing. This ruling implies that Rotschreck was hosing the dealer
at this point, as well.
It was misprinted (printed the way it read) twice by the Duelist, acoording
to Tom. This created a sense of a flip-flopping ruling, but the ruling
was stable even though one of the main disemination methods was faulty.
>The way the card is worded it would play...The minion taking agg. would go
>to torpor tapped with the card on them. This could be used to save a
>vampire from being burned from taking to much agg, for no cost this seems
>to be pretty fair.....But the ruling now is that the minion using agg. goes
>to torpor....for no cost to you or the minion this has to be one of the most
>powerful cards in the game.
No debate there.
>If I understand this correctly I'll be adding a few sudden reversals to my
>gangrell deck.
Since Rotschreck is itself an out-of-turn master, your ability to sudden
reversal it is quite limited - it will almost always be played on your turn.
Combat effects from master cards are frequently placed under the out-of-turn
classification. But the mis-rule on not playing such cards at "any time
appropriate" (as the initial Jyhad rules stated) has given them the odd
feeling of gaining power when you are not in control.
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L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | These opinions are mine and
http://www.math.sc.edu/~sjohnson | are subject to card text.
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