Rules Team Rulings - 22-APR-2013

jozxyqk wrote:

I'm a little bit confused about the Additional Strikes ruling.
What am I missing here that's new?

Resolves the ambiguity in the rule book discussed in this thread:
vekn.net/index.php/forum/6-rules-questions/41472-additional-strikes#41472

Pascal, for those of us not following things more closely, can you share any reasons why Lilith's Blessing was banned?

I guess the answer is power level, but I'm not sure. It seems like there are other cards (or even Master cards) that may be more powerful, depending on how you want to judge "power level."

As always, thank you for the great work that you're doing! It is a huge help to the game!

Ira, lilliths blessing reached the autoinclude point. The problem is NOT lilliths blessing per se, but it is broken alongside villein. As are so many other cards. Which again points out that Vilein is the problem, but (resume beating a dead horse into the distance)

However the combo of bring out arika, gain 11 pool via villein, arika becomes a twelve cap, call ancient influence? yeah thats a little bit strong

And this is but one of the many ways it was broken in. So not power level but the brokenness alongside vilein

jozxyqk wrote:

I'm a little bit confused about the Additional Strikes ruling.
What am I missing here that's new?

The additional strikes ruling is, I think, partly a result of the Additional Strikes disucssion from Nov last year. Specifically, the scenario presented here , which rather surprised a lot of people, is explicitly disallowed.

drnlmza wrote:

jozxyqk wrote:

I'm a little bit confused about the Additional Strikes ruling.
What am I missing here that's new?

The additional strikes ruling is, I think, partly a result of the Additional Strikes disucssion from Nov last year. Specifically, the scenario presented here , which rather surprised a lot of people, is explicitly disallowed.

Correct.
That one needed explicit clarification.

Kinda bummed... I just traded some pretty decent stuff for some Lilith's blessing. Yes, I know all VTES players in the known universe had them out the wazoo but I did not.