No worries
Ultimately all I can really tell you is how I would evaluate it, and, truth be told, if you did the change the way the mechanic worked and never told me that you changed something, there is a real chance I never would have noticed.haywire wrote: ↑1 year agoI guess with my question I was more thingking along the lines that the intuitive way of reading eternalize, whose reminder text is "Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie CREATURETYPE with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery." could be seen to imply it's a creature regardless of what it was initially, especially on a first read, and so it could reasonably fall into the same category as hideaway in SNC, where the functionality was updated to allow it to be more in-line with what people expected it to play as. I thought this might be able to support an argument that a rules change this minor/that effects no existing cards could be seen as allowable. Regardless, I think I've moved on from this idea regardless, but I appreciately both yours and @bravelion83 's answers.
But, supposing I did notice it, I would toss it into the same "mental box" as "entirely new keyword mechanics," and then I'd be on the fence about the mechanic having the same name. I could understand a person taking a half-point off for it, but I could also understand a judge not taking a half-point off.
Fair enough. It's a really good question, though.