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Players have always approached judges privately when checking about combos. It's been that way for the past twenty years.
If he posted on here to generate discussion and everyone gets excited and wants to use it but then the other part of your post happens when the judges rule against it at nationals mid game play seems a little pointless.
Instead, he knew it was bad for the game and posted on here to dissuade that deck and maybe have some discussion.
I completely get your point about judges ruling to rules instead of the health of the game, but instead, Josiah completely mitigated that entire situation by getting confirmation that it worked, then stopping it from happening forever. I wouldn’t make an issue out of a what if scenario that never happened.
It’s not that your post sounded harsh, it was harsh and the way you ended it with italicized words for emphasis over a hypothetical situation isn’t needed. I will back up Josiah and John by saying this has gone on forever in making sure combo decks work. How else would you know? Do you go to a tournament and just hop the judge rules in your favor and what if they do not? At least you can get confirmation prior to and then play it, and if changes need to be made afterwards then so be it.Josh, you’re a great deck builder, great card creator and overall amazing Redemption player. You brought up fair points but it was done in more so of an aggressive, or maybe condescending way. I get it, it’s because you are passionate about this topic, but I do think Josiah has all the right intentions and no deceptive lines were crossed by him asking a judge privately.
You're speculating about a timeline, that you have no way of knowing, and asserting that it's last minute.
Marcus posted the rule change on this thread that same day. The same day I held a conference call with Marcus and Gabe to get us on the same page. Which occurred a day or two after Josiah and I realized it was more than a pipe-dream combo.