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I was thinking about this and couldn't figure it out.  Why exactly is it that, in a type 2 tournament when someone uses a Haman's Plot he must take out a good card to balance his good/evil but he's not allowed to add an evil card instead?  My first thought was that adding a card to your deck after deck check is obviously illegal because you're messing with your deck.  But taking out a good card is messing with your deck just the same.  If a judge is going to watch and make sure he takes out a good card to balance it, couldn't he just as easily watch the guy put in an evil card to do the same?

Also, if the person started the tournament with a legal deck then plays a HP, what's to keep him from playing the rest of the tourney just a card short?  It's game rules that made his deck not balanced, why should it HAVE to be balanced before each round?

Just some things I was curious to get other people's thoughts on.  Feel free to tear them apart as I'm sure you will.

I was thinking about this and couldn't figure it out.  Why exactly is it that, in a type 2 tournament when someone uses a Haman's Plot he must take out a good card to balance his good/evil but he's not allowed to add an evil card instead?  My first thought was that adding a card to your deck after deck check is obviously illegal because you're messing with your deck.  But taking out a good card is messing with your deck just the same.  If a judge is going to watch and make sure he takes out a good card to balance it, couldn't he just as easily watch the guy put in an evil card to do the same?

Also, if the person started the tournament with a legal deck then plays a HP, what's to keep him from playing the rest of the tourney just a card short?  It's game rules that made his deck not balanced, why should it HAVE to be balanced before each round?

Just some things I was curious to get other people's thoughts on.  Feel free to tear them apart as I'm sure you will.

Make the deck 105 Cards, so when you rip one, your deck will still be legal.


That is why some people make 51 card decks. 

Quote from: hi123 on October 25, 2010, 09:25:46 PM

Make the deck 105 Cards, so when you rip one, your deck will still be legal.


That is why some people make 51 card decks. 

Obviously spoken by someone who doesnt play type II.

T2 IZ FUR NEWBZ

Just use Haman's Gallows. I had 5 HPs played against me in one game last tournament. One was ripped.

Yeah, addign cards to make a deck legal would be a poor mans version of a side board.

To stop people from replacing torn Plots with new Plots, probably.

To stop people from replacing torn Plots with new Plots, probably.

Then why not say you can put in a new evil card as long as it's not another Plot?  Still seems much easier for me, for the players, opponents, and officials.

Quote from: Cousin It on October 29, 2010, 11:33:54 PM

Quote from: RedemptionAggie on October 29, 2010, 02:29:37 AM

To stop people from replacing torn Plots with new Plots, probably.

Then why not say you can put in a new evil card as long as it's not another Plot?  Still seems much easier for me, for the players, opponents, and officials.

adding evil cards when there is a possibility of you seeing other people's decks would probably be considered cheating or at least should be.

Or you could just have the person also check one additional evil card separately for each Plot in their deck, and have them in a prearranged order that they use to replace Plots as they use them. That would take the "knowledge of other decks" variable out of the equation.