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Does Wool Fleece Negate all evil banding or Protect evil cards from banding?

I know it dosen't seem like a big difference but it makes it way stronger if it's a protect ability.

I say this with unequivocal conviction:

Who knows anymore? 


Seriously, it's been played as a prevent all these years yet is worded as a protect.  The way things are changing these days, even Split Altar has little ... chance ...

Only Elder consensus can overrule the REG. Wool Fleece is a prevent until they say otherwise.

hmm just food for thought as a protect its also stoppable with stuff like iron pan but as a prevent its not and cbn banding aka gomer etc etc get thru it

It is a prevent, and will remain that way for the foreseeable future.

There is a fairly good way to remember the differences to protect, prevent, and restrict on older cards:

When a card specifies that something cannot happen to it, it is a protect. i.e. "Lydia cannot be taken prisoner" can be reworded as Lydia is protected from capture).

When a card specifies that another card cannot do something, it is a prevent. i.e. "Evil Characters may not band" can be reworded as "Prevent abilities that allow Evil Characters to band"--which would be more in line with current wording rules than the current Play As, but saying the same thing. The current Play As is correct, just worded differently than it would be if WF were made today.

When a card specifies that an opponent cannot do something, it is a restrict. i.e. "Opponent may not make a rescue attempt" can be reworded as "Restrict opponent from making a rescue attempt."

Like everything, there may be exceptions, but I can't think of any.

So based Prof's descriptions I might actually argue that WF could be a restric (I know it doesn't reference opponent but the most common restric is CWD and that targets everyone, not just opponents (in case you didn't notice I really would prefer a better WF )

It's definitely not a restrict, because it's not targeting the opponent, it's targeting the opponent's characters.

It is actually targetting everyone's evil characters, not that it changes your point. 

According to the Professor, though, Wool Fleece targets any special ability that would cause ECs to band, even if they are on enhancements, artifacts, or whatever else.

 

Ok your right.
I'll go back to my little corner of denial and insist its a protect when deep deep inside I know it's not.

Thanks for the bad news everyone 

(except you teach, I always liked math anyways

@YourMathTeacher I know a few... But it's not me, I kinda like math.

I'd argue that Retricts are not that. Also CwD targets all players keeping them from playing Enhancements unless a Character is opposed in battle.

Political Science is fun. But all Science requires Math of some level.
(Don't even get me started on Physics... Idk how I got through it w/o knowing any Trigonometry at all...)

I'll stick to Constitutional Law and whether Obama Care is constitutional, thanks. 

 

ok 2 words Fractal Math

You can't have a good discussion about Chaos Theory without first going over Fractals.