Subject: 6th Edition Rules(Rumors)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:02:33 EST
From: "Sprocket unknown" <sprocket35@hotmail.com>
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

My name is John Miller.  I am known mostly by my nickname "Sprocket" to
anyone who has played me at magic.  I am concerned as a player to the
rumors of some of the rule changes when 6th Ed. comes out.  No
Interrupts?  No Mana Pool??  No Damage Prevention Phase???  Tapped
Artifacts function Normally????!!!!  What is all this about?  I am going
to tell you straight up that I played L5R, C53, tried Battletech, and
have always come back to magic for one reason.  The game mechanics as
is, is so incredibly great and so specific about fast effects,
interrupts, abilitys, mana source effects, dumping mana into your mana
pool, and other great abilities allowed in this game that it is for the
thinking minds to play and the possibilies of decks are emese.  Playing
L5R i found that if you've seen one Lion eck, you've seen them all.
Same with Crane, Dragon, Phoenix, Crab, and all the side clans.  All
these decks were basically the same or there is another version of the
same deck.  C53 was the most unthinking game I have ever played.  No
thought process whatsoever went into playing that game.  Battletech got
boring because one deck was dominant over all the others at any given
time, and you either played the same deck you played in a game/tourney,
or you played a scrub and crushed him.  With magic, there are so many
possibilities, so many versions and varieties of decks it is incredible.
If I have only seen one red deck... I am missing out on thousands of
other totally different red decks.  Same with red, green, white, black,
and artifacts.  And this is the true thinking game and that is why it is
the most popular and most profitable CCG ever made.
    If these rule changes were true, then why does Icy say "tap arget
ARTIFACT, creature or land"  and CadBloom eck is illegal cause you can't
dump that mana into your pool.  And how about the ever so recent Academy
deck... No Mana Pool???  There goes the 130 point Stroke of Genius.  Go
ahead, tap your Winter Orb.. won't do anything!!!  No interrupts???...
how exactly do we respond to that spell by countering it if it is in
response to it being cast, not actually cast yet.  So no counter spells
huh?  Blue sux.  No damage prevention???  White Sux.
No Mana Pool... White, Black, Blue, Red, and Green suck.

I am not critisizing you, I am just telling you that the rules as is are
what make this game great... take them away and you don't have a great
game, you just have another regular boring CCG.

                              -Sprocket

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