By the way, I noticed at a recent Sealed Grand Prix for Magic Origins that there were actually more Commander side events than any other format, including draft
Of course, they only needed four players to fire one off, but I think they were on Commander Pod 210 or something and draft was only on pod number 140.
I'm trying to decide if I should speculate on some Commander Staples and get ready for it to blow up. I was thinking about buying right after Commander 2015 gets spoiled
People who have thousands of dollars in cards on the ban list who play legacy regularly wouldn't quit magic if their thousands of dollars became near worthless?
Okay, you want to go down that road so I will walk with you. Let's assume for a moment that they ran 10 Legacy Grand Prixs this year. Next year, maybe they run 8. Then 6. Then 5. Then 3.
I disagree that that would be 'phasing out' legacy at all
'Only want to resist'. What? Me disagreeing with you does not mean 'I don't want to walk down this road', it's just that I think you over-evaluate the ability of Wizards to control what formats are played.
The control that Wizards has is sanctioning vs not sanctioning events, and printing cards for a certain format versus not doing so.
For instance Modern.
Wizards has been heavily pushing that the last couple years.
You claim that WotC has zero control over it. It would be more accurate to say that WotC has extremely little control over it, because they do control Grand Prixs and they can reduce the number of them. Your entire argument is based on squashing mine with hyperbole. And you did it twice.
Wizards have absolutely **zero** control over it. I disagree that that would be 'phasing out' legacy **at all**
That's because I disagree that your point is valid. I don't think that reducing the number of GP's will change how many people play Legacy at all. Especially when they already only ran 2 in 2014.
2015 has 3, however, I doubt that has had any influence on the number of people playing legacy.
@Waterseas I know, I could have sworn that there were explicit rules for that if not in the CR then at least in the MTR. But it looks like you have to infer if from the rule that lets you get the Oracle text of a card that you can uniquely identify.
Did you look at the rule reference in diego's answer?
> The official text of any card is the Oracle text corresponding to the name of the card. Players have the right to request access to the official wording of a card only if they can uniquely identify that card, although the card does not necessarily have to be identified by name. That request will be honored if logistically possible.
but the other derived information isn't something that a judge would help you with
Also specifically this: "Judges are encouraged to help players in determining free information, but must avoid assisting players with derived information about the game state. "
Then it seems that that part of derived information behaves differently from the rest of derived information, which is why its still strange that it's considered derived.
"If a player is ever unable or unwilling to provide free information to an opponent that has requested it, he or she should call a judge and explain the situation. "
Feel like this could be considered free information, and just fall into the unable part most of the time XD
But meh, tis nitpick since the rules still make it work, albeit in an odd manner
There's also the fact that as it stands, the person who wants to know has to call over the judge, but with free information, the player who chooses not to say is the one who has to call the judge
You know, now that I look, the actual bullet point for derived information is "Game Rules, Tournament Policy, Oracle content and any other official information pertaining to the current tournament. Cards are considered to have their Oracle text printed on them. "
> Derived information is information to which all players are entitled access, but opponents are not obliged to assist in determining and may require some skill or calculation to determine