4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to have to drive to work. |
0:06.0 | Okay, so I've been talking all about unstable. I'm going through every car to unstable minus the contraptions. |
0:12.0 | And I think today is going to hopefully be the final series here. |
0:16.0 | So we start with Rules Lawyer. So Rules Lawyer is a rare artifact creature, a cyborg advisor, 1-1 for three white-white, so |
0:24.6 | five man a total, two which is white. |
0:26.6 | State-based actions don't apply to you or other permanence you control. |
0:31.6 | And then it defines what state-based actions are, which is lengthy. |
0:35.6 | So this was the most controversial card in the set. |
0:38.8 | This set was in and out of the set numerous times. |
0:41.8 | So the way this card came about was a lot of times in the unsets, we come up with just a cool |
0:46.9 | name, and then they're like, okay, this is a funny name. |
0:50.1 | So Rules Lawyer is a term for a player that kind of knows the rules really well and tries to |
0:55.5 | take technical advantage of the rules. |
0:59.0 | And so we thought it would be funny to a card called rules lawyer. |
1:02.0 | It's a funny name. |
1:03.6 | So the real question was, okay, it's a rules lawyer. |
1:06.1 | You're messing with the rules. |
1:07.7 | Okay, what if you get to, we like the idea that you got to ignore a rule. |
1:14.3 | So we went to the rules manager at the time, uh, was Matt Taback and said to him, okay, |
1:19.5 | if you, if you could skip any one step or any one rule, like you could, if you could have a rule |
1:26.0 | that doesn't apply, what rule would you make it? And so, |
1:30.8 | Matt thought for a while, and it comes back here, says, I got it. 704, which is the rule for state-based |
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