Card Typos/Ambiguity and Resulting Frustration

By mdc273, in 1. AGoT General Discussion

What's everyone's level of frustration when they read a card, think it does something, and then find out the hard way it doesn't work how you expected it to? I'm more referring to when a card is ambiguously worded than when you misread a clearly worded card, but both are valid.

Also, tangential topic. Magic Players can move the needle and get a card's flavor text fixed. Is the card editing in AGoT good enough?

I see this a lot with new players, but mostly with the rules of the game rather than text on cards. If it is card text, they get annoyed as their deck isn't nearly as strong as they thought.

I'm generally a bit angry at myself for not figuring it out for myself, but not a whole lot. I'm usually prepared to cut myself quite a bit of slack. I mean, I'm so cute, who can stay mad at me for long, right?

Ratatoskr said:

I'm generally a bit angry at myself for not figuring it out for myself, but not a whole lot. I'm usually prepared to cut myself quite a bit of slack. I mean, I'm so cute, who can stay mad at me for long, right?

But then, who COULD be mad at such a cute puppy?

So generally rules questions are trumping card text questions?

mdc273 said:

So generally rules questions are trumping card text questions?

Well a rules question directly correlates to the framework. So putting responses before passives would be a rules mistake. Trying to save a character that can not be saved would be a rules mistake.

A card text question would relate to improperly understanding the card. Thinking a card effect is a passive rather than a response. Thinking Meera's ability is a response to her coming out of shadows.

Both wind up being rules-related, but technically I don't consider both to be explicitly rules questions. Many cards in this game cause questions that are clearly defined within the rules framework, but due to interpretation of card text wind up being improperly played.

Then of course are the cards that aren't clearly defined in the rules framework… which I guess would be a rules question.

They are definitely distinct cases, though you may prefer to classify them differently.