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There's only official and not official. He is of the latter variety.

Right now, under the current rules you cannot have PB activated on a priest with another on the pile.

[Tim Maly] is still more official than anyone else except Bryon/Rob/Schaef, and I'll add Mike Berkenpas to that list.

I agree with RDT.  When I look at rulings by people over the last several years on this forum, this is my observation:

Rob - right 100% of the time in controversies
Bryon - right 99% of the time in controversies
Berkenpas - right 99% of the time in controversies
Schaef - right 90% of the time in controversies
Maly - right 80% of the time in controversies

All of these percentages are higher than other members of the board, and any ruling by any one of these 5 people should be considered official unless someone above them contradicts.  Because this ruling goes against the status quo for Priestly Breastplate ever since it came out, I wouldn't be surprised if a host ruled it differently.  But unless someone higher than Tim contradicts Tim, I think his ruling should be taken as official.

See, I think the fact that there is argument over whether he is official is a good indicator that he is not. Nobody contests Schaef, Rob, Bryon, or Berkenpas.

i contest rob!!!1!!!!!1111!!1!!!1!

Nobody contests that they are official when they make a rubber stamp. However, they tend to not rubber stamp anything until there is a consensus reached. I think that's the #1 reason Malay is a tier below. He does not state his opinion on the issue, let the argument play out, consult the "other" official people, and then make a ruling. He just makes a ruling based on his own understanding and reading of the situation, then half the time it's overturned in the same thread. That's really the big reason I don't consider him official, because he states his opinion as fact.

Bryon tends to state his opinions as fact also.

Also keep in mind that there is a whole side-board for the playtesters. For all we know Tim could just be the fall guy.

Here's the logic behind the ruling:

The rules state that during your preperation phase you can activate one artifact.
They also state that activations last for a round, at which point you must either choose to re-activate the same artifact, or activate a different one.

These rules are of course, overridable with a special abilty, ala Solomon's Temple.

Priestly Breastplate's special ability does not account for any type of 'extra' or 'special' activation, it simply defines an alternative location for it to be placed, It needs to be activated first in order to be moved. Place and Holds are two different abilities.

This is the reason that Solomon's Temple, High Priests Palace, Simon of Cyrene, etc. allow for the second activation of an artifact, because they specifically say to activate the artifact on them, thus overriding the one per turn ruling.

The only card that is a mild contradiction, creating confusion here is Magic Charms. The reason that Magic Charms and Priestly Breastplate are differnt is because Charms has a 'Holds' identifier, while Breastplate has a 'Place' Ability.

In response to ChristianSoldier - Cards stay until removed by effect, or game rule. game rule is that all artifacts deactivate, or get reactivated (thus using the single activation).

You guys forgot Eric Largent. In your list he is more offical than shceaf.

Largent has been playtesting sence womens that makes him above Maly even if he never posts.

There's a diffence?

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