im sure this is a dumb question.. but how did they kill uba? cause of gush galore and the tyrants ruling the skies? maybe the Flash in a pan deck? but why is it dead? WHY VROMAN!!!
New Uba Mask Oracle wording:
If a player would draw a card, that player removes that card from the game face up with a mask counter on it instead.
Each player may play each card with a mask counter on it he or she removed from the game this turn.
If some part of an effect is replaced due to a replacement effect, the source of the effect is unchanged. It doesn't switch over to where the replacement effect came from. This led us to errata Void Maw a while back. Void Maw said "If another creature would be put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game instead." Then it referred to cards removed from the game "with" Void Maw. But let's say Void Maw is in play and you Terror an Atog. Void Maw doesn't remove that Atog from the game . . . Terror removes it from the game! Void Maw just changed what Terror's effect was. That meant that no cards would be removed from the game "with" Void Maw, and its third ability would never work. It got errata so it could use counters to track the cards removed from the game this way.
Shared Fate and Uba Mask need errata for the same reason. This will change how they work if there are multiples out and one leaves play (for example), but their basic functionality is preserved as closely as possible.
What they nerfed was the ability to weld an uba out for an uba and cause all cards drawn under that uba to be RFG. Thanks to the last line, you can now play spell removed by another uba, as long as a single uba is out. Although I dont play shops anymore, this still disturbs me. This is how it should read:
"If a player would draw a card, that player removes that card from the game face up with a mask counter on it instead.
Each player may play each card removed by uba mask with a mask counter on it he or she removed from the game this turn."
By simply adding "by uba mask" which makes the card refer to itself, the welding trick still works, yet it keeps the functionality that needed to be changed so that the "game" has a record of how these cards came to be RFG. They should fix Void Maw as well to say "Put a card removed from the game by Void Maw with a corpse counter on it into its owner's graveyard: Void Maw gets +2/+2 until end of turn".
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