Shards of Alara in the post-rot ext trials

Christopholo · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

Are we allowed to use the Shards of Alara cards spoiled on magicthegathering.com in the post-rotation extended trials? Would make sense that we could... being post rotation/post Alara release and all.

ACM · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 122

Of course you can't.

Christopholo · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

Well why not?

Circa · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 228

You're an idiot, Christopher.

We do not know even half the fucking cards yet, why would we WANT to play with the only ones we know?

Also, people are not REQUIRED to know what cards are in a set until it is released, so you want to persecute someone who either a.)doesn't care enough to read, or b.) likes suprises whenn the sets released.

YTheAlien · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 68

Circa · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 228

Fair enough, but that was the stupidest fucking question I've ever heard.

trueeevil · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 242

Its like playing with half a deck of regular cards where you choose what cards are in the deck.

Knightmarex · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 9

Is there honestly a need to swear? Can't you just answer his question maturely?

And I find it stupid to do "post-rotation" because it is NOT even the full rotation until the new set is released. Why not just wait til the new set is out? Why not just play normally right up until the REAL rotation, like standard? Most decks being created now with "post-rotation" (like you can even call it that) rules are obviously not optimal or are going to changed when Shards comes out.

Ronnan · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 163

the change of loosing the older sets is much greater than the one of getting one new set wich might only lead to replace a card. of course it can lead to making a deck viable that wasnt before, but it will not change the complete meta as loosing the older sets did
so testing post rot now seems fine for me
i dont want to just test 10 days for the pt....