PTO: RIP
Posted by yafka on February 23, 2008
It’s finally happened. After 12 years, “Protect Thine Own,” one of the most feared political action cards in the game was finally banned from tournament play at the beginning of this new year.
This was happy news to many, but I was saddened. Just when I finally got enough copies to build a good PTO deck too. I never saw PTO used in an egregious way, but I heard stories about its use. But now it’s gone.
Banning cards is a very rare occurrence in VTES. Only 11 cards out of the 3,000+ introduced in 14 years have been banned from tournament play. And most of those cards were either obsolete or just didn’t fit in a tournament environment.
No word yet how Phillip Tan is reacting to this news.
