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It's going to be extremely helpful as the elders tackle this topic over the summer.
For those of you not involved in the discussions, here...[image removed]is a computer simulation of the elders tackling this topic.
I will also say that if you were looking for why there is no inconsistency in the current rules here, it is because we have a definition for "Search" that AutO meets, but not a definition for "discarded" that exchanging to discard meets.
Quote from: Redoubter on May 20, 2016, 06:34:24 PMI will also say that if you were looking for why there is no inconsistency in the current rules here, it is because we have a definition for "Search" that AutO meets, but not a definition for "discarded" that exchanging to discard meets. The REG 3.1.0 definition for Discard says:"A discard ability removes a card from its location and moves it to its owner's discard pile."This is exactly what AUTO does when he exchanges to a discard pile.If special abilities are going to be parsed down into what they physically do instead of letting different abilities be treated as their own thing, then I don't see how this can be argued.
AutO does not discard himself, he exchanges himself into a chosen location, which can be the discard pile. If AutO exchanges himself to the discard pile, he was not discarded.
"If AutO a healing ability exchanges himself to the discard pile heals a character in Discard, he was not discarded the discard pile was not Searched."Isn't that really the logic behind the Heal = Search ruling? If you can describe an ability via another ability exactly, then it meets the definition of that other ability?
An ability that targets a card in a deck, discard pile, or Artifact Pile that is not in a specific location in that pile, includes an implied search of the pile for the target.