jrch5618 wrote:... the Distortion Field errata date seems to make no sense. 1995? I didn't think they'd do stuff like make it unique way back then... hmmmm.
It seems to parallel Atmospheric Ionization's s errata. But a date of 1995 makes no sense. Power-level errata was not issued that early in the game's life.
You're correct. Distortion Field
did receive errata in the beta printing of 1995, but it was simply a rewording for clarity. (You can pull out your copy of Glossary 1.8 to see the exact changes.) From a quick glance at the records now, it appears that Distortion Field's nerf came in 2010, same as Atmospheric Ionization. I'll try to verify that and update the database accordingly.
Also, the Fair Play date doesn't make sense either. I'm pegging it down as 5/23/2001, the release of Voyager. Like some cards on the list, the only change was errataing the old version to match the future printing, and the icon has nothing to do with it for it had it to begin with and Q the Ref doesn't mention Fair Play. They just errata'd the Dominion version to match the Voyager version.
In all the research I did on errata dates, I used the date of the earliest official rules document I could find that mentioned the errata -- in this case, Glossary 1.8, which was published on the given date.
It's entirely plausible to me that the errata actually came into effect in May 2001; I just couldn't find any documents to substantiate it (and had a few dozen other errata dates to track down). Still, just now, I found a document from September 2001 that said Fair Play had had revised text for at least a month, which tells me that the errata was declared either the day the set released or within 60 days of it. So I'll update that entry to the May date.
Let me know if you find any other inconsistencies. I'd stake that all of those dates are
close to correct, but, without detailed archives of Deciper's monthly current rulings, it's sometimes impossible to be more precise than "it was in Glossary 1.x, which came out on such-and-such date." More research could refine this data further.
Weren't the phase pistols also errata'd to be given ?
Hunh. Yeah, looks like.
When, though? Can't have been September 2010, can it? Because the
icon wasn't released until October 2010. Unless they decided to take care of both things at the same time since they knew
was coming.
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