Rules Question for LSJ

In article <199808150240...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, Fantasy15 <fant...@aol.com> wrote: >the other night I went over to my friend's house to play some Jyhad. Although >I am against most of the 7/7 rules, I have been playing with them (in some >circles) and wanted to try out a deck that utilized the new fame. It was a >Lasombra Thought's Betrayed, entombment deck in case anyone cares. My opponent >was playing Gangrel, and not being an online type, was very confused when I >played fame on his Camile Devareux. I explained what was going on and he got >upset because he was playing a fame Day Op deck. The agreement that we made >was that he play fame the old way and I play it the new way. Soon enough, >camile was doubly famous. So the question is do two unique cards with the same >name but different effects contest each other or were we right in playing that >we both lost 3 pool every time Camile went to torpor? f15, you can't possibly expect official rulings on unofficial card interactions. but feel free to make up something appropriate. gomi yeesh

[ quoted text not captured ] Officially, any card that has the same name IS the same card. If two cards of the same name say something different, then one card is wrong. Since you chose to play with two different versions of Fame, then it would, I suppose, be more consistent to treat them as if they had two different card titles. I would have handled it the same way. Lupus Australis ____ ____ \ \----/ / |()__()| __\ __ /__ / __\()/__ \ |/ \==/ \| | || |

Fantasy15 wrote: > > the other night I went over to my friend's house to play some Jyhad. Although > I am against most of the 7/7 rules, I have been playing with them (in some > circles) and wanted to try out a deck that utilized the new fame. It was a > Lasombra Thought's Betrayed, entombment deck in case anyone cares. My opponent > was playing Gangrel, and not being an online type, was very confused when I > played fame on his Camile Devareux. I explained what was going on and he got > upset because he was playing a fame Day Op deck. The agreement that we made > was that he play fame the old way and I play it the new way. Soon enough, > camile was doubly famous. So the question is do two unique cards with the same > name but different effects contest each other or were we right in playing that > we both lost 3 pool every time Camile went to torpor? Fame is unique. And doesn't work the "old" way. All copies of fame work the same way, and they would all contest one another. If you use house rules for the card, it's up to you to determine how the house rules affect the game. -- L. Scott Johnson (vte...@wizards.com) VTES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast. Searchable database of official card text, errata, and rulings: http://deckserver.net/cgi-deckserver/rulemonger.cgi/powersearch