Modern Rules Team

The Modern Rules Team of the Rules Council exists to maintain the rule system for Players Council formats, which means making decisions for how new cards, mechanics, errata, and game systems work. Their counterpart is the Legacy Rules Team, which manages the legacy Decipher formats. See that team's article for an introduction, as the work in this team builds upon and expands that work.

Comprehensive Rules 5.0

The Legacy Rule Team maintains Decipher's original rulings in the form of the Comprehensive Rules 4.1, and builds upon it by adding new rulings to the Comprehensive Rules 4.2 (aka Community Rules). The Modern Rules Team builds upon this document with the Comprehensive Rules 5.0, aka PC Rules. 5.0 is an all-in-one document for understanding how PC formats work, including all inherited Decipher rules and any PC alterations, removals, or additions incorporated straight into the document.

For new or returning players who are familiar with the Decipher game and want to know just the differences, the Modern team also maintains a PC Rules Summary to quickly and easily read up on what has changed. This document is informal however, and is only a convenience; the true rules are stored in 5.0 proper.

Modern Team Rulings

Each ruling is associated with an accompanying ruling article here on the wiki. This acts as both a workspace for team members to organize and track any evidence or developments and a historical record of why and how a change was ruled. This makes linking the issue to new and returning players much simpler.

Each ruling article should contain the following:

• An explanation of the initial issue
• The evidence referenced one way or another
• A link/transcription of any public posts made on the subject
• The ultimate vote and decision made
• If a change was made, summarize where it can now be found / link it in 4.2

In many cases, the result may simply be "we opted to change nothing / uphold the traditional community view", and that's fine. The important part is that there's now a record that people can be linked to to get an overview of the entire issue.

And just because we rule one way doesn't mean that's set in stone. Maybe Ruling #167 decides we got #33 wrong and reverse it. But either way, a record will exist, all in one easily browsed (and linked) place.

See the table at the bottom of this page for a list of all past and current Modern Team Rulings. In most cases, the Legacy Team Rulings are also relevant to the discussion, but if they differ then an explicit Modern ruling will be issued to clarify the issue for PC formats as well.

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