There were several schools of thought and many friendships lost over this issue. One camp says, the assassin lives. You see he kills the sorcerer and then the sorcerers ability is "canceled" because he is not in play any more. The other camp says, well the sorcerer is not tapped until the damage is dealt. At which point the assassin is dead so he cannot kill the sorcerer. Awesome!
Saturday, June 1, 2013
5th grade - prodigal vs royal
Let's talk about the rules of magic. Or more appropriately how the rules worked on the playground back in 1994. Take a sample interaction. You tap your Prodigal Sorcerer to kill my Royal Assassin, in response I tap my Royal Assassin to kill your Sorcerer. What happens.
There were several schools of thought and many friendships lost over this issue. One camp says, the assassin lives. You see he kills the sorcerer and then the sorcerers ability is "canceled" because he is not in play any more. The other camp says, well the sorcerer is not tapped until the damage is dealt. At which point the assassin is dead so he cannot kill the sorcerer. Awesome!
There were several schools of thought and many friendships lost over this issue. One camp says, the assassin lives. You see he kills the sorcerer and then the sorcerers ability is "canceled" because he is not in play any more. The other camp says, well the sorcerer is not tapped until the damage is dealt. At which point the assassin is dead so he cannot kill the sorcerer. Awesome!
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Oh man oh man oh man. Now THAT brings back some memories. That and the 'perma-buffed' Frozen Shade. After all, it didn't *say* +1/+1 lasted only until end of turn.
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember us interpreting first-in-last-out as meaning that whoever responded won the fight (as their effect happened first, saving them from the initial effect). This resulted in long games where nothing happened until my friend with the RS played his sorceress queen, which protected the RS from Tim.
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