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701 - Unglued & Unhinged
  • 701.1 - Unglued and Unhinged are unusual Magic expansions.
  • 701.Ruling.1 - Unglued and Unhinged were designed to be funny. Keep that in mind. [D'Angelo 2006/02/01]
  • 701.Ruling.2 - It is very unlikely that you'll manage to get the NetReps or Customer Service to agree on some rulings for these cards. So, if there are two or more rulings from official people out there, use the one that you think will be funniest. In Arena, the Arena judge chooses. In friendly play, agree amongst yourselves, or toss a coin. [Barclay 1998/08/13]
  • 701.Ruling.3 - Some cards in Unglued have a picture and no text. These are intended for use to represent token creatures for you so you don't have use coins, glass beads, kittens, pick-up trucks, or other handy objects. [QAS 1998/09/09] When using one of these to represent a token creature, they count as tokens, not cards. [QAS 1998/09/09]
  • 701.Ruling.4 - A teammate is a player who shares a victory condition with you. In other words, you both work together to win and win as a team. [QAS 1998/09/09] Partnership and Emperor formats have teammates. Grand Melee and normal two-player games do not.
  • 701.Ruling.5 - When judging if a person performed a subjective task correctly, use your best judgment. An honest attempt which falls a little short should not be penalized. [QAS 1998/09/09] Subjective tasks include rhyming, doing an action for Bureaucracy, complimenting an opponent, etc.
  • 701.Ruling.6 - Any random source with the same odds can replace a coin toss or die roll. [QAS 1998/09/09] But the replacement still counts as its original type. For example, rolling a die to simulate a coin counts as a coin flip and not a die roll. [D'Angelo 1998/09/09]
  • 701.Ruling.7 - You cannot target a player in a different game. [QAS 1998/09/09]
  • 701.Ruling.8 - If you rip up or mark a card in a tournament because you are required to do so by a spell or ability, your deck is not made illegal. Instead, before the next game, you must bring your deck back up to 60 cards by borrowing from your sideboard (if your sideboard has any more cards and if your deck fell below 60). [QAS 1998/09/09]
  • 701.Ruling.9 - If you are required to remove cards from your deck or sideboard for the duration of a match a tournament, your deck is not made illegal. Instead, before the next game, you must bring your deck back up to 60 cards by borrowing from your sideboard (if your sideboard has any more cards and if your deck fell below 60). [QAS 1998/09/09]
  • 701.Ruling.10 - You cannot use a coin with two heads (or tails) or a die which does not have values that can clearly be divided into the right number of equal sets, as per Rule 701.Ruling.6. [D'Angelo 1998/10/23]
  • 701.Ruling.11 - When asked to choose an artist, you can only choose one that has illustrated at least one Magic card. [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15]
  • 701.Ruling.12 - Use the artist name printed on the card, even if the name is not correct or if some other version of the card has different art. A typo does not count as a different artist, but a pseudonym does. Nicknames are also ignored, as with "Pete 'Fear Me' Venters" being the same as "Pete Venters". Any card illustrated by more than one artist is considered to be illustrated by both artists. [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15]
  • 701.Ruling.13 - When playing with silver bordered cards, all numbers in Magic that would normally be restricted to whole numbers as per Rule 104.1 are now allowed to be whole numbers or half numbers, such as "2.5". This applies to power, toughness, mana, life, damage, and so on. [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15] For example, if you have 20 life and take 3.5 damage, you now have 16.5 life. And if you end a phase with 0.5 unspent mana points in your pool, you lose 0.5 life. As another example, you can use Pyrotechnics to deal 0.5 damage to each of 8 creatures. [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15] It does not apply to the number of counters. You can't have half a counter. [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15]
  • 701.Ruling.14 - Gotcha cards trigger if the opponent says the word exactly. Plurals count ("guys" and "guy" are equivalent). Homophones do not count ("eye" and "I" are not equivalent). Homographs and homonyms do count ("contract" as a verb or noun). Parts of a word do not count ("lifeline" does not trigger if the word is "life"). [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15]
  • 701.Ruling.15 - Some cards require a mini game, such as Eye to Eye's staring contest. You have to win the game honestly. No blowing in their face, for example. A player can always concede the game instead of playing it. [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15]
  • 701.Ruling.16 - When playing with silver bordered cards, all color choices that would normally be restricted by Rule 203.2d are open to any color choices you want. You can choose brown, for example. [Unhinged FAQ 2004/11/15]
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