#480304
from the latest OP guide:
i am very much against this stealth change, unless a printable version of the preview card gets released the very same day.
decipher wasn't this stupid, dammit. and they were trying to use those cards to make money.
making preview promos tournament legal creates an uneven playing field:
- not everybody knows the card exists, so they cannot properly prepare
- even if they know it exists, they cannot use it themselves (we have gotten rid of this inequality when we made all cards printable. now we're sliding back?)
- the card isn't available in trekcc's db, so decks containing it cannot even be properly entered
- how is anybody supposed to verify the "as soon as they have been won" condition? designers, volunteers, TDs purchasing kits,... anybody with early access to such cards is at an advantage. what about trade?
- as a non-foil white bordered VP, cut rectangularly and glued to a decipher card, counterfeiting it with a decent color printer should be easy. do you want to create an incentive to do that?
- if i show you a white-bordered card you don't know or find in trekcc's database, how are you (or the TD, for that matter) supposed to verify it is a real card?
making such cards tournament legal would have been bad even when they were just mediocre nouns, but the latest such card is a rather strong DILEMMA.
(please note that i'm not arguing for myself - i already own a copy of said dilemma. no comment on whether it was "won"...)
anyway, until this gets changed, personally i will:
- refuse to participate in any constructed tournament that allows the use of a card that wasn't known and available to each participant ahead of time.
- in my own tournaments, either ban such cards, or provide unoffical copies to each participant and allow them to use them. (this includes any championship-level tournaments that i help to run.)
Promo cards distributed by the Continuing Committee in prize kits are legal for play as soon as they have been won. This includes White-Border Preview cards (those bearing a “P” rarity) that have not yet been released in a virtual expansion.SERIOUSLY???
i am very much against this stealth change, unless a printable version of the preview card gets released the very same day.
decipher wasn't this stupid, dammit. and they were trying to use those cards to make money.
making preview promos tournament legal creates an uneven playing field:
- not everybody knows the card exists, so they cannot properly prepare
- even if they know it exists, they cannot use it themselves (we have gotten rid of this inequality when we made all cards printable. now we're sliding back?)
- the card isn't available in trekcc's db, so decks containing it cannot even be properly entered
- how is anybody supposed to verify the "as soon as they have been won" condition? designers, volunteers, TDs purchasing kits,... anybody with early access to such cards is at an advantage. what about trade?
- as a non-foil white bordered VP, cut rectangularly and glued to a decipher card, counterfeiting it with a decent color printer should be easy. do you want to create an incentive to do that?
- if i show you a white-bordered card you don't know or find in trekcc's database, how are you (or the TD, for that matter) supposed to verify it is a real card?
making such cards tournament legal would have been bad even when they were just mediocre nouns, but the latest such card is a rather strong DILEMMA.
(please note that i'm not arguing for myself - i already own a copy of said dilemma. no comment on whether it was "won"...)
anyway, until this gets changed, personally i will:
- refuse to participate in any constructed tournament that allows the use of a card that wasn't known and available to each participant ahead of time.
- in my own tournaments, either ban such cards, or provide unoffical copies to each participant and allow them to use them. (this includes any championship-level tournaments that i help to run.)
Last edited by Winner of Borg on Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
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