EE Clarification

[steve2275]

yeah  attacking say onslaught with a p c then having x-man play EE in reponse to said attck never made sense to me

i think people think that the bottom part applies to the top part as well
it doesnt say x-man or teammate may avoid 1 attack made with a power card

[OP GOD]

If you put an (,) after the words power card hit.  It makes perfect sense.

I personally agree with ptg , it's not a broken card it only blocks power cards. And other than x man. When was the last time you saw sentinels in a deck?? 

Although I believe I played against one person In k2 with them.

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OP GOD

[drdeath25]

why are you guys still arguing about this shit? its a common ruling every player and every well known judge all ruled on the exact same back in the day. no controversy. are you serious gonna say the guide to playing specials is wrong when it puts it in clear english that cant be interpreted any other way?

[odbjosh]

Just my 2 cents, if the card was meant to be able to avoid a pc atk from a teammate wouldn't the card have read "X-man or teammate may avoid one power card attack or remove one power card hit"?

[Palatinus]

Just my 2 cents, if the card was meant to be able to avoid a pc atk from a teammate wouldn't the card have read "X-man or teammate may avoid one power card attack or remove one power card hit"?

The people who wrote these cards were not terribly organized about how they worded things.  There were lots of cases of cards coming out with confusing wording that had to be ruled on in-tournament because the creators intent wasn't clear on the card.  The EE is a good example and these rulings were made with the purpose of following the intent of the card creators, not just randomly.  We are very fortunate to have people around here who can provide us with this information that we otherwise would have lost.  So, while it is academically interesting to argue over how a card should have been worded, it is not productive to try to extrapolate the intent of the card creators from the card text if we have available an actual ruling from the time the card was created that tells us what the intent was.