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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #25 on: September 07, 2011, 08:24:35 AM »
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According to your logic above... When Bringing Fear was played, it Negated the Good Negate, and now Wrath of Satan, not having been negated, takes effect.
That is correct from my understanding.
I have never seen it played that way before. We have always played it as SomeKittens said...
If you negate something that prevented an ability, the ability won't try and reactivate.

I will star a separate thread asking for input from the Elders.  This is a major shift in game mechanics either for you or for me.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #26 on: September 07, 2011, 02:24:30 PM »
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So now the waters are further muddied. We have one elder agreeing with one side of the argument, and a post from another elder in a different, but related, thread seeming to make a precedent that supports the other side of the argument. Neither is enough to confirm the ruling either way.

Any other elders care to post and try to clear things up a little? lol

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #27 on: September 07, 2011, 04:04:43 PM »
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #28 on: September 07, 2011, 05:22:48 PM »
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*Waits for standard "We're discussing this on the other side, go play with your trucks while the big boys make a decision"* post.
While we wait, I'm going to mull over why my previous post, which is nothing but summarizing the current situation of the discussion, is worthy if a -1. =/

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #29 on: September 07, 2011, 05:57:27 PM »
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So due to a quirk in the rules years ago it was determined that a card that grants CBN to another card is itself CBN in order to avoid the confusion it created in the first place.  So the CBN status it receives is sort of a quid pro quo.  Yet now some are proposing that the special quid pro quo CBN will retain its powerful awesomeness even though it's only granting a CONDITIONAL CBN?

Gimme a break.  I think we have a qui pro quo.   ::)
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #30 on: September 07, 2011, 07:31:20 PM »
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Yet now some are proposing that the special quid pro quo CBN will retain its powerful awesomeness even though it's only granting a CONDITIONAL CBN?

This is ultimately where the two sides differ:

View 1. The conditional CBN only means that good and neutral cards can negate music enhancements used by Asaph. Evil cards can never negate them.

View 2. The conditional CBN allows the whole SA to be negated by a good or neutral card, including the CBN-granting ability.

I would argue that the latter undermines the ability of Michael et al. CBN-granting abilities should not be able to be negated. That was the very purpose of Michael. Otherwise, KoT is greater than Michael, which is not how it has ever been (nor should be).
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #31 on: September 07, 2011, 07:38:04 PM »
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View 2 does not change how Michael works, he's still CBN even versus KoT. I don't know where you're getting the idea otherwise.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #32 on: September 07, 2011, 08:08:37 PM »
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I would argue that the latter undermines the ability of Michael et al. CBN-granting abilities should not be able to be negated. That was the very purpose of Michael. Otherwise, KoT is greater than Michael, which is not how it has ever been (nor should be).
YMT, no one is arguing anything at all that touches Micheal or Thomas or...

That would be all well and good if the new REG actually came out and said what you are claiming it does. In the passage quoted, it was providing an explanation for a specific example where the CBN status was granted unconditionally. A case where no one has any dispute about the ruling.

Asaph's ability is not the same as Thomas', therefore Thomas can't rightly be used as precedent for a ruling on Asaph.

Since it is more than a little tiring to have to explain this over and over, in the future I will just respond to these posts by wondering why the other side keeps claiming that Musical enhancements played by Asaph cannot be negated by any cards evil or good.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #33 on: September 07, 2011, 09:19:16 PM »
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Since it is more than a little tiring to have to explain this over and over, in the future I will just respond to these posts by wondering why the other side keeps claiming that Musical enhancements played by Asaph cannot be negated by any cards evil or good.

I have never said that, FTR. My only argument is that evil cards cannot negate musical enhancements by Asaph under any circumstance. That is all.

BTW, the two of you are doing exactly what you are accusing me of doing, and your explanations are just as "tiring." The point of the Michael example is that you are opening up opportunities for people to find an obscure combo that would indirectly negate Michael's ability. I still argue that should not be possible under any circumstance. Asaph's CBN-granting ability is the same as Michael's, it just limits the CBN to evil cards (not the ability to grant CBN status, since that is inherently CBN). From my perspective of the way it works, you are trying to create a loophole in the idea of CBN/CBP/CBI, which should not have any loopholes. There are already counters in place to stop CBN/CBP/CBI, namely Protect and Instead. That is sufficient.

I am not going to respond to any more posts directed at me or what I have said. I already acknowledged that there are two distinct opinions, with neither side budging. Continued debate is pointless.

It is now up to the Elders to make a decision and announce it publicly so we can go back to normalcy.
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #34 on: September 07, 2011, 09:36:49 PM »
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The point of the Michael example is that you are opening up opportunities for people to find an obscure combo that would indirectly negate Michael's ability.
Can you suggest one such obscure combo? Because we've never said that anything can negate Michael, either indirectly or directly, so if you're so vehement that something can under our idea it should be simple enough for you to provide an example.

This question is not meant to be argumentative, I'm just trying to help you understand our position and to have you help me understand yours. I think discussions of any kind benefit when each side knows where the other is coming from.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #35 on: September 07, 2011, 09:42:43 PM »
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Just to clear up all the confusion of why michael is being brought up, this thread came out of a thread that I started asking why I couldn't negate michael. Then this thread spawned another thread, that spawned another thread. I still don't understand the ruling but I take comfort in the fact that I have generated 3/4 of the discussion on these forums  ;D

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #36 on: September 07, 2011, 10:08:43 PM »
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The point of the Michael example is that you are opening up opportunities for people to find an obscure combo that would indirectly negate Michael's ability.
No, we are not doing that. I do not understand what you think you are gaining by knowingly choosing to repeat false statements about what I am claiming.

Just for the record here is precisely what I have said on this topic...

That would be all well and good if the new REG actually came out and said what you are claiming it does. In the passage quoted, it was providing an explanation for a specific example where the CBN status was granted unconditionally. A case where no one has any dispute about the ruling.

                            -and-

The question before us, however, is a different one--namely whether an SA that grants conditional CBN status itself subject to the condition.

Go ahead, YMT, show me how either of these statements lead you to believe I am looking for some back door attack against Michael or Thomas or any other cards which grants unconditional CBN status. If you cannot do so, then please stop making false claims about what I *am* saying.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #37 on: September 07, 2011, 11:08:57 PM »
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Let's all stop the sarcasm and wait for an elder, this is not going anywhere.
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #38 on: September 07, 2011, 11:19:17 PM »
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For the record, nothing I've said has been sarcastic. I'm truly interested in the combo YMT thinks we're concocting (as that had never even crossed my mind), and I wish he would extrapolate his point of view further so I can try to understand it.

But, yes, another elder post would be most agreeable and acceptable.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #39 on: September 07, 2011, 11:24:38 PM »
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For the record, nothing I've said has been sarcastic. I'm truly interested in the combo YMT thinks we're concocting (as that had never even crossed my mind), and I wish he would extrapolate his point of view further so I can try to understand it.

But, yes, another elder post would be most agreeable and acceptable.
I wasn't referring to anyone in particular.

And YMT isn't saying this is possible yet, he's saying that it could lead to things like this happening.
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #40 on: September 07, 2011, 11:26:30 PM »
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For the record, nothing I've said has been sarcastic. I'm truly interested in the combo YMT thinks we're concocting (as that had never even crossed my mind), and I wish he would extrapolate his point of view further so I can try to understand it.

But, yes, another elder post would be most agreeable and acceptable.
Just to clear up all the confusion of why michael is being brought up, this thread came out of a thread that I started asking why I couldn't negate michael. Then this thread spawned another thread, that spawned another thread. I still don't understand the ruling but I take comfort in the fact that I have generated 3/4 of the discussion on these forums  ;D

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #41 on: September 08, 2011, 12:43:19 AM »
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Yet now some are proposing that the special quid pro quo CBN will retain its powerful awesomeness even though it's only granting a CONDITIONAL CBN?

This is ultimately where the two sides differ:

View 1. The conditional CBN only means that good and neutral cards can negate music enhancements used by Asaph. Evil cards can never negate them.

View 2. The conditional CBN allows the whole SA to be negated by a good or neutral card, including the CBN-granting ability.

I would argue that the latter undermines the ability of Michael et al. CBN-granting abilities should not be able to be negated. That was the very purpose of Michael. Otherwise, KoT is greater than Michael, which is not how it has ever been (nor should be).

View 3 (Or clarification of View 1):  Asaph's SA itself CBN.  Blessings would not negate Asaph's SA, only the musical enhancements' SAs as per Asaph's SA.  The only way to negate a musical enhancement is with a good or neutral card.  Asaph's SA CBN. Period.  Thus, all musical enhancement SA's are negated unless blessings is negated. 

With my explanation, the "rule" about CBN is not violated.  Asaph's SA is not being Negated because it can't be Negated.  Blessings is working within Asaph's SA and following the condition that Asaph's SA  specifies.  If this is not the current ruling, it should be because it does not violate the view of SA's granting CBN status are in and of themselves CBN.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #42 on: September 08, 2011, 11:53:03 AM »
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QUID. PRO. QUO.

Does everyone just make up arguments to hear themselves argue?   ::)

A card that grants unconditonal CBN to another card should be unconditonally CBN itself.

A card that grants conditonal CBN to another card should be conditonally CBN itself.

It's consistent and logical, and if I had a backdoor into the REG I'd go put it there myself.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #43 on: September 08, 2011, 11:58:08 AM »
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The only problem with that logic is that there is no such thing as conditional CBN.  You will see it no where in the REG or mentioned anywhere in past ruling.  There is, however, a rule stating that cannot be negated can never be negated, and that cannot be negated abilities themselves cannot be negated.  So to me the logical conclusion is that you cannot negate a ability that grants cannot be negated status

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #44 on: September 08, 2011, 12:29:49 PM »
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The only problem with that logic is that there is no such thing as conditional CBN.
Then how exactly do you explain "cannot be negated by an evil card"?

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #45 on: September 08, 2011, 12:40:56 PM »
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it is a cannot be negated ability that has a condition applied to it.  it is still a cannot be negated ability.  The rules of Redemption draw no distinction between CBN and "conditional" CBN.  CBN means CBN, there is no way around it under the rules of Redemption, if it says CBN, it sticks, there is no rule that says otherwise under any circumstance

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #46 on: September 08, 2011, 12:50:19 PM »
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Now you're just getting into semantics. "Cannot be negated ability that has a condition applied to it" is no different than a "conditional cannot be negated ability," it's just said with more words in a more drawn out fashion.

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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #47 on: September 08, 2011, 12:54:49 PM »
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A conditional CBN ability is something like Samuel's Edict. That's very different from a CBN ability with limited scope.
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #48 on: September 08, 2011, 01:05:05 PM »
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A conditional CBN ability is something like Samuel's Edict. That's very different from a CBN ability with limited scope.

There's no difference whatsoever.  It's semantics, as browarod suggests.  That being said, I'm still trying to find the official repository of the "CBN-granting cards are CBN" rule.
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Re: Negating CBN
« Reply #49 on: September 08, 2011, 01:07:23 PM »
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"Cannot be negated" is the default ability. Anything in addition to that (whether it be "cannot be negated by an evil card" or "cannot be negated if used by an Assyrian") is a condition upon the CBN ability.

 


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