Onko Sword of Kaldrassa todellakin näin typerä virhe ?
Worst Combination of Abilities - Sword of Kaldra (Mirrodin)
More than any other card in Mirrodin block (and that's saying something) this card really, really annoys me. As a judge, at the Mirrodin prerelease and every single limited tourney for the next nine months, I had to explain to some poor kid that the sword did not actually remove any creatures from the game.
Yes, I know it says it does that right on the card. Yes, I know your opponent shouldn't be able to Betrayal of Flesh his Platinum Angel back into play, because you shot it with your Sworded Spikeshot. But he can. And judges all over the world were stuck explaining this to a stream of uncomprehending kids - that you can't remove the creature from the game, because it dies before the triggered ability resolves, and it doesn't say "remove creature card" it only affects creatures in play. (I was a little skeptical on this one, since our "Ask The Judge" database begs to differ - but John Carter's Saturday School seems to back him up - T.F.)
I'd like to lock whoever designed this in a room with a bunch of sullen nine-year-olds and hold nothing but three days of Mirrodin-Mirrodin-Mirrodin draft. They say hell is other people? Hell is explaining this card to a kid, and his friends, and then his parents, and having him start crying in protest. And it was the pre-release card, too...