Author Topic: Gospels of Christ Legality and Widow/First Drawing Fix *Now w/ Official Wording*  (Read 10210 times)

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Redemption Players:

A couple important announcements regarding the upcoming Major Tournament season

Firstly:

We are pleased to announce that the majority of players now have GoC either in hands, or access to it through major retailers. Thusly GoC Phase 1 is now tournament legal!!!

Secondly:

We feel it is important to have a plan in place for things that have proven to be problematic with GoC becoming legal. We have seen "The First" Lost Soul and Ephesian Widow + Life in the Son used to create massive card advantage.

In a costless game it is inherently unhealthy when things are this repeatable. Thus we are implementing a rule change. RedemptionAggie will have official wording for this rule coming soon. Essentially players will be limited to 4 activations of an ability per turn. We feel this fixes both current draw interactions, it will also slow down very strong cards such as Jeshua and Eyes to See + The Foretelling Angel. We went this direction for a number of reasons and feel it is the healthiest thing for the game in terms of future proofing going forward.

Thanks!

The Elder Team.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2022, 12:44:17 PM by RedemptionAggie »
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Re: Gospels of Christ Legality and Fixes to Widow and First drawing.
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2022, 12:43:26 PM »
Wording for the "4 activations" rule:
Players are restricted from activating one or more instant effects in the special ability on the same card more than 4 times in a turn.

This rule will be added to the next REG update, to be released 4/11/22.

The rule only applies to instant effects (draw, discard, banish, etc.), so it doesn't cause ongoing effects (protect, restrict, etc.) to potentially be inactive if the they would be a 5th activation. Since negate is both instant and ongoing, it does count as one of the activations.
The rule only applies to special abilities, so activating the star ability of a card does not count as one of the activations.
The usage of "one or more instant effects" allows multiple effects to activate together but only count as 1 activation, for cards with multiple abilities, like Life in the Son. However, each activation of triggered effect counts as its own activation, regardless of how many times the ability was triggered.
The rule applies to all effects on the card, not each effect separately. So a card like Treacherous Land gets 4 combined underdecks and draws, not 4 of each.

 


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