Rules Team Rulings - 22-APR-2013

I'm a bit disappointed that Dummy Corporation wasn't banned :/

TorranceCircle wrote:

Klaital wrote:

Anthelios and Ashur Tablets still weren't banned though. :/

IMHO, if ashur tablets are reprinted at some future time, the decks that rely heavily on them will run into problems because of the "remove all other copies in play" clause. More people will play them and thus getting three out may become less reliable.

So the game would turn even more in the ugly "who-plays-more-masters-per-turn" race that is now, which imho isn't desiderable at all: the errata making ashur to retrieve just (less) minion cards is much needed and desiderable instead

KevinM wrote:

nc-italy wrote:

So the game would turn even more in the ugly "who-plays-more-masters-per-turn" race that is now, which imho isn't desiderable at all: the errata making ashur to retrieve just (less) minion cards is much needed and desiderable instead

What makes you believe that changing Ashur so that it retrieves fewer cards and/or only minion cards would make Ashur no longer in the "who-plays-more-masters-per-turn" race? I think it'd be just as played, in almost as many decks.

The fact that restricting the tech to minion-only is by definition
a restriction, so the "retrival race" game would be restricted
to more specialized (minion cards) decks (say: choirs) and by that the omni-all-good module with master-pool-retrival tech that is now with the current ashurs would be no more (which is indeed much desiderable)