Flesh of Marble & Flak Jacket

[Brian E. Wellington]

From: aa...@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas R Wylie)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad
Subject: Rules Team Rulings: 11/10/95
Date: 12 Nov 1995 00:34:44 GMT
Message-ID: <483ff4$9...@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>

1) Damage prevention cards may only be played during a Check Damage step
of combat (sometimes referred to as "strike resolution"). However,
permanents that prevent damage and lasting effects (such as Flesh of
Marble) can be applied outside of this step. While you can't play Skin of
Rock to prevent the damage from Pulled Fangs, the damage could be prevented
if you had superior Flesh of Marble in effect, or an unused Flak Jacket.

This ruling seems to indicate to me that a Flak Jacket can be applied at any
time, not just the Check Damage phase. Therefore, could Flesh of Marble be
used to reduce all damage from a round to 1, and then the Flak Jacket applied
to prevent the final 1? Or must the Flak Jacket be used before the effects of
the Flesh of marble?

Brian

[L. Scott Johnson]

The latter. Flesh of Marble has errata (aka Baggage) saying that it
only reduces damage /that wasn't prevented/ to one. Curiously, of
course, the superior talks about /preventing/ damage, not reducing it,
so requires the baggage I was talking about earlier - and as long as
WotC is adding all this baggage, they may as well add enough to make
the card work sensibly in the face of a mix of damage.

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[Thomas R Wylie]

L. Scott Johnson <sjoh...@math.scarolina.edu> wrote:
>The latter. Flesh of Marble has errata (aka Baggage) saying that it
>only reduces damage /that wasn't prevented/ to one. Curiously, of
>course, the superior talks about /preventing/ damage, not reducing it,
>so requires the baggage I was talking about earlier - and as long as
>WotC is adding all this baggage, they may as well add enough to make
>the card work sensibly in the face of a mix of damage.

No, it has an *interpretation* that it prevents damage that wasn't
prevented by other means. We don't need to issue errata every time
you misinterpret a card.

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