Messages from the Onyx Lives #rules-questions Discord channel, copied for Oracle of the Void. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings and the rulebooks may differ.
Oblivious now reads 'other players battle actions may not target your other cards'. It's still my opponent's action targetting my cards even though I'm doing the targetting, correct?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 1 December 2024 01:13
I can't remember how it might have been different before, but this is correct, and it seems in line with its general intent.
Jeremy Sumerlin (rules official), 1 December 2024 01:14
I'm sick of this card. Nobody plays it except to exploit it. I'm just going to ban it
I saw that for gencon onyx was disallowed for modern and legacy. Sounded like it was more about gencon than about the intention of thr design team here. Is the plan for modern to eventually include onyx? Will it drop samurai?
Jeremy Sumerlin (rules official), 3 December 2024 23:10
It is not our decision. The organizers of Modern, to my knowledge, do not consider our project to be something they wish to include in their events or organizations
Jeremy Sumerlin (rules official), 3 December 2024 23:10
For whatever reason they have, that was my understanding
A player, 3 December 2024 23:18
Well not to put too fine a point on it but that’s stupid and unfortunate
A player, 3 December 2024 23:19
I am loving the onyx stuff but I also wanna try and build more modern decks
Jeremy Sumerlin (rules official), 3 December 2024 23:19
Either way, it's not our call. They never reached out to us, and I was told that they had no interest in incoporating our project. Not sure about it beyond that
A player, 3 December 2024 23:20
Big deck and legacy tho are not controlled h that group are they?
Jeremy Sumerlin (rules official), 3 December 2024 23:21
No idea on that front.
Jeremy Sumerlin (rules official), 3 December 2024 23:30
Ah, @Brook Cunningham clarified for me that it was the OBH Legacy people that do not want to incorporate our project
Jeremy Sumerlin (rules official), 3 December 2024 23:30
The Modern thing seems to have been an organizational issue more than anything ele
A player, 3 December 2024 23:51
There is nobody currently managing the Modern Format so nobody can make the decision.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 3 December 2024 23:53 · in reply
The flipside of that being, if no one is managing it, than anyone can make the decision, for their own individual tournaments.
A player, 3 December 2024 23:55
That makes sense. I haven’t seen sparks on the Facebook group in ages. Last I heard from him he was torn on what to do with samurai when onyx appeared