C'mon dude you gotta link the ruling so we are on the same page. Some are are saying errata fixed it Dragon says the ruling says it has to be printed on the card...

Well, we'd better not show people page 17 of the actual rulebook then.

"Powers are always printed on a combat dial, are visible through the stat slot, and are either standard powers (colored squares) or special powers (black-bordered white squares)."

If the same people who would be confused by this ruling happen upon that stuff from page 17, then surely they will get confused into thinking that powers granted by relics and other such effects won't work because they are not printed on a dial.
Always means always after all.



As mentioned previously this has not changed for WK run events since DexCon 2012, possibly Origin (in any case, the beginning).
I was working DexCon. The PG with the errata entries to give older duos had not yet been published. People wishing to play Deadpool/Cable with the new Split/Merge were denied.

Errata is considered to be printed on the card.

If I had my way REAL NAME would mean the character would need to have that name printed on their dial.

Not that it matters, since that's not going to happen, but why would you want that?

With how quickly they answered that question on WES compared to how slowly they are deciding to answer stuff like KC trait I think omitting Real names/qualifying names seems intentional. Personally I am not that bothered, splitting and merging always seemed a little wordy for me and slightly confusing so I rarely used it. If it disappeared all together I don't think I would miss it.

The golden age errata section states that any further errata on figures in golden age will not normally happen so I think your almost certainly right here if they were going to be errata'd they'd have done it already.

You more than most know that it can and will confuse people and they will try to argue about it

Well, since the first post doesn't have the link anymore, and I can't find it with just a little bit of searching, but if I remember correctly, it didn't say anything about having the qualifying name table printed on the card. It simply said that because the duo in question did not have a qualifying name table, then it couldn't use Split/Merge.

This ruling has absolutely no bearing on characters, that do have qualifying name table, even if that table is not printed on the character card.

To think that this ruling affects older characters basically means that you are not aware of the errata to the characters. And if you are not aware of the errata to the characters, how were you using them with Split/Merge to begin with?

This whole thread is just one of those "I misread a current ruling or have misunderstood the rules before and now I am angry"-threads.

The only possible mistake here is made by the design team. To think that the rules team is the same team as the design team would be silly.

To the rules team there is no mistake here. The character does not have the qualifying names table, so clearly it can not use Split/Merge. For the rules team to rule that it could use it would be a horrible ruling as then they would have to come up with who it could Split/Merge into and that is not their job. It is the job of the design team.

EDIT: HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!

EDIT2: Also, here's the link to the ruling. Nothing about having the table printed on the card: http://wizkidseventsystem.com/bb/vie...php?f=3&t=9900

Why didn't the old Metal Men get a split chart back when everyone else did?

I don't want Split/Merge to just go away. There are duos that use it in special ways.

This has to just be an oversight. I really dislike how the WES answer people seem to be playing a game no else else is.

Because there were no valid Split options for the Metal Men then, so those table would just be a waste of PG space.

Because there weren't any single Metal Men they could split into.



It might be an oversight for the design team, which is not the WES people. If you want to blame someone, blame the design team at WizKids.

Doesn't Thor's Mighty Chariot have a useless split/merge chart?

Nope, it can split into a single Thor.

I had this same conversation with Quebbster maybe a week ago.

When you can point to something and quash the argument immediately, it isn't much of an argument.