Hello Rulers!
The entire FOW team,
with the help of our rules experts, has been thoroughly reviewing the
functionality of the Symbol of Magical Fraying (card TOP-027) because its
interaction with the Comprehensive Rules was not what we intended.
To make Symbol of
Magical Fraying easier to understand and use, we are applying a minor but
clarifying errata to that card. From now on, its requirement will be limited to
public zones, reducing the time it takes to check this requirement during the
game.
In addition, we are
updating section 302.2 of the Comprehensive Rules, effective immediately, to
make the operation of all cards that require checking cards in hidden zones for
one, both, or all players during a game easier to apply and understand.
The errata to Symbol
of Magical Fraying is the following:
Symbol of Magical Fraying (TOP-027, TOP-PRE)
Old Text
[Enter] >>> If you don't control water cards in any
non-ruler area area, wind cards in any non-ruler area area, water spells or
wind spells, choose one;
-
Cancel target
water spell with [Quickcast].
-
Cancel target wind
spell with [Quickcast].
New Text
[Enter] >>> If you don't control water cards or wind cards in any
non-ruler area public area, water
spells or wind spells, choose one;
-
Cancel target
water spell with [Quickcast].
-
Cancel target
wind spell with [Quickcast].
And the update to the
CR is the following:
302.2. Areas are
divided into "public area" and
"hidden area". Each player can see
the information of
cards in a public area, unless prohibited by
rules or effects. Each player cannot see the information of cards in a
hidden area, except for a player
specifically allowed to see them by rules or effects,
or unless the cards are face-up in that area (see 302.2d.).
302.2a. Each player can know or count the number of cards in an area regardless if it's public or hidden.
302.2b. If a player who has access to hidden information wants to
perform an action that requires knowledge or
verification of that hidden information from another
player that cannot see that hidden information, the player performing
the action must show any hidden information
required to perform the action. After performing the action, all shown information will become hidden information
again.
302.2c. If a player wants to perform an action that requires
information of public areas that have cards whose information is hidden to that
player, the player performs the action ignoring the cards in those public areas
whose information is hidden to them.
302.2d. Cards revealed to all players in a hidden area are
considered "cards in a public area" for effects and abilities.
Thanks to this
clarification and the CR update, when a player plays the [Enter] ability of
Symbol of Magical Fraying, to fulfil the condition, the cards that player has
that will be checked will be checked this way:
·
All face-up
cards in public areas will be checked.
·
All face-down
cards in public areas will be checked, but only if their controller has access
to their information (due to rule 302.2b). If that player doesn't have access
to that information, those cards won't be checked.
·
Face-up cards in hidden
areas will be checked (due to rule 302.2d), despite the errata saying
"public areas".
·
Face-down cards in hidden
areas will not be checked, since the errata specifies "public areas".
We hope that with this
clarification, both on the card and in the rules, Symbol of Magical Fraying
becomes one of your options when building new decks.
The Development Team