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mauleed wrote:

You know how people like you can shut up people like me? Simply tell the truth. Say 'the rules clearly don't allow me to do this, but I don't care, I'm going to do it anyway and all of you who like to follow the rules can go to hell'. Then I'll have no rebuttal and we can all stop posting and get back to work.

See the reason we are having this discussion is because it's not clear to me and not clear to a whole bunch of other people. If it's clear to you, great, but you and I often disagree on stuff so I don't really care. I don't foresee us ever playing a game together so no sweat.

Ok, back to work.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

I completely agree with Ed.

I'm a very RAI player, and would happily agree to let my opponent cast the spell into combat if he were to tell me before the game that he is used to playing that way and the FAQ plans to fix the misunderstanding.

BUT if I were playing VC and, after discussing the situation with my opponent before the game, if he were to state that the RAW state I cannot cast into combat, I would agree with him. Most likely he'd see the dilemma and we'd agree to go RAI on this particular situation, but you have to realize what Ed is arguing:

Right now, without that FAQ released, the *rules* *as* *written* prevent you from casting it into combat simply because of that one particular paragraph out of the main rule book, which I'm sure we're all familiar with by now.