Gaea's Liege

"Peter Cooper Jr." <pete RemoveThis @cooperjr.name> wrote in message
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> "Simon Cooper" <swcooper RemoveThis @conecast.net> writes:
>> When Gaea's Liege attacks in a two headed giant game, what's its
>> power/toughness?
>>
>> I suspect I incorrectly ruled for just one player's forests, whereas
>> seems
>> to me the sum of the two is more likely the current philosophy. Just
>> doesn't seem consistent with the way you assign damage to only one player
>> (and of course, someone else was trying to split his damage from an
>> Ophidian
>> eye'd creature to both players...)
>
> What there an official answer ever posted to this? (I've been not
> reading this newsgroup for a while, and I'm finally catching up. But
> even Google Groups doesn't seem to show any answer other than Jeff
> Heikkinen's.)
>
> At the prerelease, I ruled that it was the sum of the two
> players. The relevant text on Gaea's Liege is "As long as Gaea's Liege
> is attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of
> Forests defending player controls." I figured that this was similar to
> landwalk's text of "A creature with landwalk is unblockable as long as
> the defending player controls at least one land with the specified
> subtype and/or supertype" being interpreted as "...as long as *a*
> defending players controls...", so I treating the Liege as "...number
> of Forests *a* defending player controls," meaning that for each Forest,
> if it's controlled by a defending player, it counts.
>
> Selecting an opponent seems really strange to me, as it's a static
> ability applying all the time. When would you select the opponent?
>
> The only other answer would be for the Liege to have more than one
> power/toughness (like the pre-errata Duplicant with more than one
> imprinted card). But I didn't want to go there, so I ruled that it was
> the sum.
>
> But an official answer to this would be kind of nice.
>

I asked Zoe about this the other evening, and she said it was still under
consideration...

If it comes up again in the near future, I think I'm with your reasoning.