Ok I have a question for those who know the BYOTT format.
Swarms of Annihilus says:
Play only if you control Annihilus.
Stun target character with cost less than or equal to the number of Negative Zone locations in play.

Now I know it's referring to the locations with the name Negative Zone... But it does say negative zone... The name of the team. So does it count? It's not like I'm making a NZ deck but it would be interesting to hear what you guys think.
Thanks ahead of time.
-David G

i dont think so.

It has to reference Negative Zone as an affiliation. "Negative Zone location" does not fulfill that. I say no.

Just no. It very specifically references locations.

Maybe if you name The Captain "Negative Zone location"? That might bypass it. Doubt it, though.

That would work... if The Captain didn't need to reference an existing name.

I'm fairly certain that "Negative Zone locations" grammatically means "locations with the proper-noun name 'Negative Zone' ". So the text pretty much indicates that it only cares about cards with the Card Type "Location" (See Rule 206.1) and the name "Negative Zone" (See Rules 201.1 - 201.8b).

In the case of The Captain, his name would be "Negative Zone Locations" a proper noun, were you to name him such.

Spud hit on this already, but you actually couldn't, as you have to choose a name within the game. "Negative Zone Locations" is not an already existing name, and therefore invalid.

There are 3 Negative Zone locations that mention the name: Shadow Dimension, Prison Alpha, and Gateway, so you could run those.

Edit: Why couldn't you run the card in BYOTT? It mentions the affiliation, just as any other team-stamped card does.

The locations that mention the Negative Zone affiliation can be used, yes.

But that was not the question. Swarm of Annihilus cannot be used because it does not have the Negative Zone affiliation on it anywhere.

Not to mention... but now that we have team symbols, we can easily see there is no (-) symbol on it anywhere...

Ahh, gotcha. The text "Negative Zone locations" isn't technically "team stamped", it just happens to have the team name in it. Reminiscent of how the "Doom" and "Team Superman" team-stamped cards didn't count in the original Legends format.

My thinking was that "Negative Zone locations" was team-stamped in the same way "target Negative Zone character" is, but locations are never "affiliated"