I was just wondering if you guys could answer a question for me.

When you have four diffrent supermans out like Superman Red, Superman Clark Kent, Superman Blue, and Superman Kal-El and Superman Red Still Has his cosmic counter does it give all characters named superman +4 attack when attacking from the front row?

And one more thing, When any Superman character says superman does it include all of your supermen on table? I guess this is the same question the first one is just an example.

Thanks a lot guys.

Basically, no.

Whenever a character references itself by it's own name, it refers only to itself.

So where it says "While Superman is attacking from the front row, he gets +4 ATK." it really means "While <this piece of cardboard> is attacking from the front row, he gets +4 ATK."

The only exception is where it says "cards named <insert name here>"

what he said...

Thats weak, this game keeps popping up with "ITS NOT WHAT THE CARD REALLY SAYS" Know what I mean?

Seems like at the beginning of playing this game it was like "whatever the card says goes!" but more and more I am finding out I have to keep coming to VSRealms forums for the actual playing definition for each card.

I still like the game, but whatever...

because you sit there and read card after card, and by the hundredth card you are like YES! this is awesome what a combo totally new deck, and next thing you find out, that card doesn't actually work like that...or like what it says...

So like I said whatever... this is like 15 cards for me

I mean where did you find this "<this piece of cardboard>" errata or rule def?

One thing though, I believe what you put but where did you learn that, I feel like reading the same .doc

Paul Ross said it somewhere on Metagame. Look up the Cerebro articles.

Comprehensive Rules:
201.2 If an effect or modifier refers to the name of the card that produced it, it is only referring to the card that put the effect on the chain or whose text produced the modifier, and not to any other instance of that card.
201.3 If a cost refers to the name of the card that is its source, it is only referring to the card that is the source of that cost, and not to any other instance of that card.

Just for clarity, it's nothing at all like an errata or rules change---the same thing's been true for a long time. And beyond that, what the card says still goes, but it shouldn't be a surprise that you also have to read cards in the context of the rules.

It would be really boring reading cards that just talked about themselves as "this card," since that makes them seem a lot more like pieces of cardboard and a lot less like characters. So cards refer to themselves by name, instead; it's not that different, it just emphasizes the characters rather than the cardboard.

Once you read the comprehensive rules, you'll understand the games better and things like this will stop happening. Take the time to read them and the game will stop disappointing you.

reading the rules isnt the hard thing understanding them sometimes is

thats true but its a start