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Post by rebmonk on Feb 10, 2012 10:47:19 GMT -5
-2 points
You mad bro?: "scooping", surrendering, or losing and leaving the table before you are actually defeated. You do not get this if it is in response to someone activating an infinite combo.
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Post by thatjudgejosh on Feb 11, 2012 16:17:14 GMT -5
I'm not sure I like this. EDH is a casual format. If some person or people at the table are playing decks that are so frustrating that it makes everyone else not want to play, people shouldn't feel pressured to put up with those decks. If a deck just puts me on lock and kills me slowly over 20 minutes, I shouldn't need to sit there doing nothing until I die.
Also, why the exception for infinite combos? There is no special reason to scoop if the combo would kill you anyway.
It seems like what this rule wants to do is keep people from robbing their opponents of Victory Points by scooping right before they would be killed. However, there is a simpler and more direct way to accomplish this goal.
If a player resigns in a game state from which he would be eliminated before the end of his next turn, other players may take the actions that would have been necessary to eliminate him. If they do, they gain Victory Points as if that player were still in the game.
I guess the other thing that could happen is that 2 players in a Star quit early and strand the other 3 players.
Maybe also add the rule:
If a player resigns from a Star pod in a game state that does not indicate he would be eliminated soon (as determined by the remaining players in the pod), that pod becomes a free-for-all game with among the remaining players.
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