Rulings summary

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howdy all,

Been out of Magic for several years. I found a notice that Stephen D'Angelo
wasn't posting ruling summaries anymore. Is there an "official" summary I
can use to catch up? I found some posts on this board by Patrik Linell that
were very helpful, but if there's a summary that's used as the standard, I'd
like to find it.

Thanks,

JP

 

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"Indy Tech" <indytechSPAMTRAP@att.net> writes:
> Been out of Magic for several years. I found a notice that Stephen
> D'Angelo wasn't posting ruling summaries anymore. Is there an
> "official" summary I can use to catch up? I found some posts on
> this board by Patrik Linell that were very helpful, but if there's a
> summary that's used as the standard, I'd like to find it.

I'm not 100% sure what you're looking for, but the official source for
the rules of the game is Wizard's web site at
http://www.wizards.com/magic/comprules

There you can find the Comprehensive Rules, the Oracle card
reference, FAQs for each set, and so on. Specific questions on cards
can often be answered by looking at the FAQ for the set that it was
released in.

As for a summary of what's changed over the past several years, I'll
have to defer to people who've been playing for that long.

--
Peter C.
Any noun can be verbed.

 

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thanks, Pete. I have the official rules, and the last D'Angelo summary
dated Jan 2004. Just wondered if someone else had taken up the task of
keeping the rulings current. I notice the rules additions and changes have
been coming at a faster pace recently.

Before I quit playing, I was judging for local tournaments in Indianapolis,
and would have become a DCI judge if I hadn't gotten involved in opening a
computer business. I came to value the rulings summaries when judgin for,
or playing against, the occasional numbskull for whom the only right answer
was the answer that let him win.


JP

"Peter Cooper Jr." <pete@cooper.homedns.org> wrote in message
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> "Indy Tech" <indytechSPAMTRAP@att.net> writes:
> > Been out of Magic for several years. I found a notice that Stephen
> > D'Angelo wasn't posting ruling summaries anymore. Is there an
> > "official" summary I can use to catch up? I found some posts on
> > this board by Patrik Linell that were very helpful, but if there's a
> > summary that's used as the standard, I'd like to find it.
>
> I'm not 100% sure what you're looking for, but the official source for
> the rules of the game is Wizard's web site at
> http://www.wizards.com/magic/comprules
>
> There you can find the Comprehensive Rules, the Oracle card
> reference, FAQs for each set, and so on. Specific questions on cards
> can often be answered by looking at the FAQ for the set that it was
> released in.
>
> As for a summary of what's changed over the past several years, I'll
> have to defer to people who've been playing for that long.
>
> --
> Peter C.
> Any noun can be verbed.

 

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On Sat, 01 May 2004 16:51:01 GMT, Indy Tech <indytechSPAMTRAP@att.net> wrote:
>Been out of Magic for several years. I found a notice that Stephen D'Angelo
>wasn't posting ruling summaries anymore. Is there an "official" summary I
>can use to catch up?

d'Angelo just very recently stopped - _since_ the latest expansion was
released. So right now his Rulings files are still about as valid as can be.
Once Fifth Dawn comes out they may start falling behind; I also hear Wizards
is considering getting a new netrep solely for the purpose maintaining the
Rulings files, which is a Good Idea. So crystalkeep at the moment is fairly
up-to-date.

> I found some posts on this board by Patrik Linell that
>were very helpful, but if there's a summary that's used as the standard, I'd
>like to find it.

The official stuff from Wizards pretty much consists of the rulebook's current
version and the Oracle files, as usual. You can find them both at
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/rules/tourneyplayer
which should generally have the most up-to-date version of the rulebook, and
has a link to the Oracle pages.

Dave
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David DeLaney <dbd@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote:
>d'Angelo just very recently stopped - _since_ the latest expansion was
>released. So right now his Rulings files are still about as valid as can be.
>Once Fifth Dawn comes out they may start falling behind; I also hear Wizards
>is considering getting a new netrep solely for the purpose maintaining the
>Rulings files, which is a Good Idea. So crystalkeep at the moment is fairly
>up-to-date.

To correct a possible misinterpretation of the above - what I heard was from
a month ago and was that they already had picked a candidate to succeed
Stephen. Don't know anything about said candidate, really, and don't know if
they've announced it yet, or who ... doesn't seem to be anything I can find
on their webpages. But it's not a case of them sitting around saying "Oh no,
whoever shall we get to replace Stephen, I cannot think what we will do!"...

Dave
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\/David DeLaney posting from dbd@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.