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Here is a link to the details for the teams and Seeker of Souls (IronMan) extra events at Nationals.

2009 Nationals Extra Event Details

Mike

I have three questions:

1. It says players may openly discuss strategy, meaning that table talk is fine?

2(a). It wasn't mentioned in the rules, are we no longer allowing each member on the team to play enhancements on their teammate's character? (i.e. Player A attacks with ET and gets blocked by a higher EC, can Player B play AOC (promo) on Player A's ET since they're on the same team?)

2(b). If you are allowing the playing enhancements on each other's characters, if one plays a Draw-3&Play-Next enhancement, can the other play another enhancement?

3. In Ironman are you going to allow the use of the new set that is being released? Rock of Ages was allowed at last nationals, and I'm sure people would love to be able to use the new stuff this year in Ironman as well.

Why can you play doubt in battle? Is that some kind of weird teams errata? So I can block with nero and add doubt to battle?

The benefit here is that Doubt can be a "second chance" block.  John + AOC promo vs King of Tyrus, then drop Doubt into battle. You could play it into battle for other reasons but this is the main benefit.

I have three questions:

1. It says players may openly discuss strategy, meaning that table talk is fine?

2(a). It wasn't mentioned in the rules, are we no longer allowing each member on the team to play enhancements on their teammate's character? (i.e. Player A attacks with ET and gets blocked by a higher EC, can Player B play AOC (promo) on Player A's ET since they're on the same team?)

2(b). If you are allowing the playing enhancements on each other's characters, if one plays a Draw-3&Play-Next enhancement, can the other play another enhancement?

3. In Ironman are you going to allow the use of the new set that is being released? Rock of Ages was allowed at last nationals, and I'm sure people would love to be able to use the new stuff this year in Ironman as well.

These are last year's rules with two changes. First change, table talk is fine. Second change is you don't lose the game for trying to play a second copy of a dominant, instead it just fizzles. Last year's rules did not allow you to play enhancements on your teammates characters.

Is there a Cannan Event this year?

I haven't gotten any volunteer to run the Settlers of Canaan event and I know nothing about how to play. So unless someone else steps up to run it, there would only be ad-hoc Settlers games.

Mike

Ah, I must be confusing NY's team rules with last year's.

I think I will be also participating in teams.  I'm looking forward to it.