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Some questions from regionals
« on: July 23, 2011, 11:32:28 PM »
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1.) Does satan's seat negate all protect abilities on opponent's heroes all the time or only when they are rescuing against the site. It was ruled you must rescue against the site for the protect ability to kick in(much to my dismay), Is this true and if so, why?
1a.) If your opponent rescues the first half of the 2 liner, does Satan's seat still discard the hero's?

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Type: Fortress • Brigade: None • Ability: None • Class: None • Special Ability: Place on your single-color Site to negate all protect abilities on opponent’s Heroes. If a Hero rescues a Lost Soul from that Site, discard that Hero. • Play As: Place on your single-color Site to negate all protect abilities on opponent’s Heroes. Discard all Heroes that rescue a Lost Soul from that Site. • Identifiers: Play to territory. • Verse: Revelation 2:13 • Availability: Faith of our Fathers booster packs (None)

2.) If you have high priests palace in territory with a couple Sadducee's (1/3) and your opponent activates crown of thorns, do you sadducee's live in territory as 1/0's?

3.) Opponent rescues with Thaddeus and has 10 disciples in play, you block with a 9/9. Can you play enhancements to make your evil character bigger then Thaddeus or is the evil character not allowed to have evil enhancements played due the protect of Thad?

Thaddeus (Di)

Type: Hero Char. • Brigade: Purple • Ability: 8 / 8 • Class: None • Special Ability: Protect all cards in play, set-aside area, Artifact piles, hands, and decks from Evil Characters with toughness X or less. Cannot be interrupted. • Identifiers: NT Male Human, Disciple • Verse: Matthew 10:2-3 • Availability: Disciples booster packs ()

 
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2011, 11:35:40 PM »
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Satan's Seat negates anything anywhere regardless of what site it is on and the status of that site in relevance to that battle.

Saducees live through Crown of Thorns because HPP says Discard. Discard was ruled to cover by game rule (decreasing below 0) or ability ( eg AOCP). Protection from discard abilities would only cover AOCP, etc.

You can play enhancements for numbers against Thad, they just can not effect anything he is protecting.

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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2011, 12:03:13 AM »
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1a.) I think yes.

Sidenote: Is SS an ongoing ability?
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2011, 12:11:26 AM »
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1.) Does satan's seat negate all protect abilities on opponent's heroes all the time or only when they are rescuing against the site. It was ruled you must rescue against the site for the protect ability to kick in(much to my dismay), Is this true and if so, why?

No it is not, SS's ability says place on a site to negate all protect abilities.  as soon as you place it on a site it continuously negates all protect abilities whether they RA at that site or not.  The ruling was wrong.
1a.) If your opponent rescues the first half of the 2 liner, does Satan's seat still discard the hero's? No, the LS says it must be rescued twice to count.  A half rescue is not a full rescue because the card must be rescued twice in order for the first rescue to qualify as a true Rescue

Satan's Seat (FF)

Type: Fortress • Brigade: None • Ability: None • Class: None • Special Ability: Place on your single-color Site to negate all protect abilities on opponent’s Heroes. If a Hero rescues a Lost Soul from that Site, discard that Hero. • Play As: Place on your single-color Site to negate all protect abilities on opponent’s Heroes. Discard all Heroes that rescue a Lost Soul from that Site. • Identifiers: Play to territory. • Verse: Revelation 2:13 • Availability: Faith of our Fathers booster packs (None)

2.) If you have high priests palace in territory with a couple Sadducee's (1/3) and your opponent activates crown of thorns, do you sadducee's live in territory as 1/0's? Yes

3.) Opponent rescues with Thaddeus and has 10 disciples in play, you block with a 9/9. Can you play enhancements to make your evil character bigger then Thaddeus or is the evil character not allowed to have evil enhancements played due the protect of Thad?Currently, in that situation, Thad protects all heroes from the 9/9 EC's SA and any enhancements played on him.  The number abilities of the cards do not count toward the overall #'s of the EC so they would not change the protect status of Thads SA.

Thaddeus (Di)

Type: Hero Char. • Brigade: Purple • Ability: 8 / 8 • Class: None • Special Ability: Protect all cards in play, set-aside area, Artifact piles, hands, and decks from Evil Characters with toughness X or less. Cannot be interrupted. • Identifiers: NT Male Human, Disciple • Verse: Matthew 10:2-3 • Availability: Disciples booster packs ()
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2011, 12:17:49 AM »
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Satan's Seat negates anything anywhere regardless of what site it is on and the status of that site in relevance to that battle.

It seemed pretty clear to me that is what is suppose to happen but what do you do when the two of the very experienced players disagree?
I was arguing that since it was saying do X to do Y, once satan's seat was placed on a single color site it did negate all protect abilities on opponent's heroes immediately.
I would like an elder or REP to step in and give me their two cents about these questions. I lost the match due the ruling about satan's seat.
Many lost souls were surrendered due to Thad rescuing at different sites other then Satan's seat and having to deal with a Thad who was protecting from basically everyone.
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2011, 12:22:12 AM »
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Satan's Seat negates anything anywhere regardless of what site it is on and the status of that site in relevance to that battle.

It seemed pretty clear to me that is what is suppose to happen but what do you do when the two of the very experienced players disagree?
I was arguing that since it was saying do X to do Y, once satan's seat was placed on a single color site it did negate all protect abilities on opponent's heroes immediately.
I would like an elder or REP to step in and give me their two cents about these questions. I lost the match due the ruling about satan's seat.

I also would like Elder input, since I was the one who made the ruling.

Satan's Seat says "opponent's" which has always been ruled as the person attacking you. It would have to say "opponents' " for it to be all inclusive.
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2011, 12:29:11 AM »
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1a.) I think yes.

Sidenote: Is SS an ongoing ability?

Yes*.

*If you are referring to the negate clause.


It seemed pretty clear to me that is what is suppose to happen but what do you do when the two of the very experienced players disagree?

You go with the judge, even if he's wrong. I've gotten ruled against when I could have told you all kinds of stuff about the exact thread that ruled on the topic. It doesn't matter. The judge is judge. If that's what they rule, that's what they rule.

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I would like an elder or REP to step in and give me their two cents about these questions. I lost the match due the ruling about satan's seat.

I'm sorry you lost because of that. But, currently there's 3 regionals placers/champs in this thread all saying that same thing, so you can safely think that this ruling on SS is correct at the current status quo. I know YMT is your judge, so I know that he did what he thought was best and tried to rule as fairly as possible. I would chalk it up to bad luck (if you are a luck person) or providence (if you are not a luck person).

Satan's Seat says "opponent's" which has always been ruled as the person attacking you. It would have to say "opponents' " for it to be all inclusive.

Right. That would mean in MP, it's only active while you are being attacked by someone. However, in two player (which is what I assume we are talking about), it would always be active because there is always an opponent. Even were I to be wrong on this point (which I may be), it's really irrelevant, because the minute you are in battle with the other player, you have an opponent, and protection is getting negated. SS is not tied to the site it's on; I'm curious why you thought it was. Is there a similar situation you were thinking of at the time or a ruling from the past that came to mind?
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2011, 12:42:59 AM »
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Right. That would mean in MP, it's only active while you are being attacked by someone.

That is the ruling that I made. Perhaps spicy was talking about something else that I was not a part of, but since he said "two" of us, I thought that what he was talking about the ruling that I had made.

SS is not tied to the site it's on; I'm curious why you thought it was.

The discard would be tied to the site, though, wouldn't it? You would have to have access to that site in order to make a rescue at the site.
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2011, 12:49:02 AM »
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Right. That would mean in MP, it's only active while you are being attacked by someone.

That is the ruling that I made. Perhaps spicy was talking about something else that I was not a part of, but since he said "two" of us, I thought that what he was talking about the ruling that I had made.

I was under the impression this was about two player. If we are talking about MP, then you would definately be correct in saying that when players A and B battle, player C and his SS don't do anything.

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SS is not tied to the site it's on; I'm curious why you thought it was.

The discard would be tied to the site, though, wouldn't it? You would have to have access to that site in order to make a rescue at the site.

Is this question about the discard? Again, I was under the impression it was about the negate. The discard is pretty clearly tied to the site. It says so on the card.
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2011, 01:04:10 AM »
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The ruling that I made was in a multiplayer game.
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2011, 01:59:24 AM »
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The ruling that I made was in a multiplayer game.
The question that I asked was during the finals of t1 2p, when my opponent claimed (who was also the judge/host) said that satans seat negate ability was only active when rescuing against that particular site. My recolection was ymt confirmed this as well.
The multiplayer question was also about the negate ability working against all opponents not just the player who was rescueing from the site. I did agree with ymt on this ruling but it is a seperate issue.
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« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2011, 08:58:43 AM »
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If for some reason the judge was playing in the category he was judging, that's a HUGE misconduct in the first place. Furthermore, if he used a ruling to beat you in the game for 1st place, that may be a major and blatant enough breech of the tournament rules that you could get the win transferred to you.
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« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2011, 10:06:21 AM »
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The question that I asked was during the finals of t1 2p, when my opponent claimed (who was also the judge/host) said that satans seat negate ability was only active when rescuing against that particular site. My recolection was ymt confirmed this as well.

I did not confirm that ruling. Granted I have a horrible memory, but I think I would have remembered that, especially with first place on the line. Are you sure it was not someone else like Josh or Marcus?
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2011, 01:19:47 PM »
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Satan's Seat negates anything anywhere regardless of what site it is on and the status of that site in relevance to that battle.

It seemed pretty clear to me that is what is suppose to happen but what do you do when the two of the very experienced players disagree?
I was arguing that since it was saying do X to do Y, once satan's seat was placed on a single color site it did negate all protect abilities on opponent's heroes immediately.
I would like an elder or REP to step in and give me their two cents about these questions. I lost the match due the ruling about satan's seat.

I also would like Elder input, since I was the one who made the ruling.

Satan's Seat says "opponent's" which has always been ruled as the person attacking you. It would have to say "opponents' " for it to be all inclusive.

My bad, I assumed that this was in a 2 player game.  If it is in a multi-player game, then it would only effect the person attacking you, but they don't necessarily have to have access to that site to fall victim to the negating protection part on heroes, They just have to have access to fall victim to the discard clause.  They just have to be attacking you to be your opponent.  I also rescind my ongoing ability part.  I think it has to reactivate when it is triggered by the beginning of a battle where you are being attacked for the negating of protection to happen.
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #14 on: July 24, 2011, 01:23:05 PM »
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If it has to reactivate for every battle, then does it actually stop Thad at all, since Thad is CBI?

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« Reply #15 on: July 24, 2011, 01:32:15 PM »
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The question that I asked was during the finals of t1 2p, when my opponent claimed (who was also the judge/host) said that satans seat negate ability was only active when rescuing against that particular site. My recolection was ymt confirmed this as well.

I did not confirm that ruling. Granted I have a horrible memory, but I think I would have remembered that, especially with first place on the line. Are you sure it was not someone else like Josh or Marcus?

I remember YMT telling me that Satan's seat did not activate either the discard or negate abilitiy unless the opponent had access to the site. This was during the MP game and my opponent (host/judge) agreed. We carried this ruling into t1 2p. YMT claimed due to how opponent's was spelled on satan's seat (as he claimed earlier in the thread) it meant Satan's seat ability
(Negate and discard) didn't activate unless the player had access to the site. I accepted the ruling as both the judge/host and separate judge we in agreement. Either way, the judge who was my opponent claimed this was the ruling and it was final. I disagreed but accepted the ruling since he was the judge. I only referred ruling questions to YMT and RTSmaniac.
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« Reply #16 on: July 24, 2011, 01:33:40 PM »
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My bad, I assumed that this was in a 2 player game.  If it is in a multi-player game, then it would only effect the person attacking you, but they don't necessarily have to have access to that site to fall victim to the negating protection part on heroes, They just have to have access to fall victim to the discard clause.  They just have to be attacking you to be your opponent.  I also rescind my ongoing ability part.  I think it has to reactivate when it is triggered by the beginning of a battle where you are being attacked for the negating of protection to happen.

This was a 2p game. I don't know how people are confusing this with MP. The ruling was carried into t1 2p and had a strong effect on the outcome of the finals.
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« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2011, 01:39:38 PM »
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If it has to reactivate for every battle, then does it actually stop Thad at all, since Thad is CBI?

However, in two player (which is what I assume we are talking about), it would always be active because there is always an opponent.
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« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2011, 01:44:07 PM »
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It's always active in both types. The target just changes dynamically.
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« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2011, 02:01:45 PM »
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I think the issue here is RTS and YMT must have seen SS as having one ability rather than two.

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« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2011, 03:04:45 PM »
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This was a 2p game. I don't know how people are confusing this with MP. The ruling was carried into t1 2p and had a strong effect on the outcome of the finals.

This was a ruling that evidently BEGAN in multi and was carried over into 2 player.  Regardless of WHERE the ruling happened I would have dissagreed with the provision that the person had to have access to the site for the protect ability to work

Of the 2 parts of the SA only one requires access to the site.  Here is the play as broken up into its two separate parts.  The first does not require the hero to have access, the second ability does require the hero to have acess.  THey both operate independently and have different triggers as far as I can tell.

Satan's Seat (FF)

1.  Place on your single-color Site to negate all protect abilities on opponent’s Heroes.
2.  Discard all Heroes that rescue a Lost Soul from that Site.

It may be that the ruling was being cocnfused, thinking that the limiting factor of the second also applied to the first, which I cant see how it does based on the wording.
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Re: Some questions from regionals
« Reply #21 on: July 24, 2011, 03:11:11 PM »
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The issue here is a misunderstanding of my original ruling. The ruling I made in the multiplayer game was the scenario mentioned earlier by Alex:

When Player A is attacking Player B, Player C's Satan's Seat has no affect on Player A's hero.

That was it. That was my ruling. In the ensuing revelation, I mentioned that the discard could only happen if the hero had access to the site.

The next day, during T1-2P, there was an apparent misinterpretation of my ruling. I never said that the negate required access to the site, because I know that is not true. I was never called over to the table to make or confirm a ruling during the final game between RTS and spicy. For the most part, I spend my time making basic rulings with the plethora of younger players, rather than between experienced players. This appears to be a case where I was not called over for a ruling question, since there was an assumption that my ruling from the multiplayer game somehow carried over to the two-player game. 
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« Reply #22 on: July 24, 2011, 03:38:14 PM »
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The issue here is a misunderstanding of my original ruling.


This is only part of the issue. The other part, the more important part, was my opponent who is also the judge and host of the event made a ruling in the finals that apparently is not correct which contributed heavily to result of the tournament.
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« Reply #23 on: July 24, 2011, 03:40:26 PM »
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The issue here is a misunderstanding of my original ruling.


This is only part of the issue. The other part, the more important part, was my opponent who is also the judge and host of the event made a ruling in the finals that apparently is not correct which contributed heavily to result of the tournament.

I'm not going to disagree with you there, but I wanted all the facts to be known before any overarching decision is to be made.
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« Reply #24 on: July 24, 2011, 03:41:26 PM »
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The issue here is a misunderstanding of my original ruling.


This is only part of the issue. The other part, the more important part, was my opponent who is also the judge and host of the event made a ruling in the finals that apparently is not correct which contributed heavily to result of the tournament.

I disagree. RTS was not the judge based upon what YMT was said. He was a co-host and could judge categories that he did not play in, but it sounds like YMT was the main judge, which is how it should have been. It seems like you just didn't call him. Obviously I wasn't there, but I think this is a case of you not calling the ruling authority for teh game in question. It would be akin to playing an elder at Nats and not calling another elder to confirm a ruling just because the elder you are playing made a ruling. You should always second guess it if you aren't sure.


EDIT: Well, YMT didn't contradict, but I think my main point is still somewhat valid.

 


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