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Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

Sept. 27, 2016 04:34:25 AM

Christian Harms
Judge (Level 1 (International Judge Program))

German-speaking countries

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

Greetings!

(Not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but the other forums seemed even less fitting…)

A side by side comparisson of the CR,MTR,IPG when they are changed would be a very useful thing to have. I don't know the documents by heart line-for-line, so I'm usually a bit weary that I might miss an actual change when looking over the new versions.
I know there's a few articles that talk about the (intended) effects of policy changes, but I haven't been able to find a version that explicitly lists the changes, like for example: "This is unchanged rules text. This was the next line before the current policy update. This line is new in this version. Here the unchanged text continues.“

When I got back into the game around RTR, there had been a thread in the WotC forums that listed for each set what rules had changed from the last set, and I found the ”diff" aproach extremely usefull to get behind things. I imagine that it would be a good way to keep track and notice policy changes, as well.

Regards,
Christian

Sept. 27, 2016 04:37:20 AM

Mark Mc Govern
Judge (Level 2 (Judge Academy)), TLC

United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

The Appendix in each document specifically lists the changes from the previous document version.

Sept. 27, 2016 04:44:20 AM

Claudi Cisneros Camps
Judge (Level 2 (International Judge Program))

Iberia

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

Sadly CR hasn't (at least lasts)

Sept. 27, 2016 04:50:57 AM

Sophie Pages
Judge (Level 3 (International Judge Program)), Scorekeeper

France

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

about CR, i use yawgatog, I found it really useful : http://www.yawgatog.com/



Sophie

Sept. 27, 2016 04:53:21 AM

Mark Mc Govern
Judge (Level 2 (Judge Academy)), TLC

United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

Off the top of my head there haven't been any meaningful CR changes in quite some time. There's an update every set realease to add new mechanics, and some tweaking to corner case stuff occasionally. It's all covered in update bulletins such as this: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/eldritch-moon-update-bulletin-comprehensive-rules-changes-2016-07-28

Sept. 27, 2016 11:37:36 AM

Callum Milne
Forum Moderator
Judge (Uncertified)

Canada

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

Originally posted by Christian Harms:

When I got back into the game around RTR, there had been a thread in the WotC forums that listed for each set what rules had changed from the last set, and I found the “diff” aproach extremely usefull to get behind things.
The Returning Player Rules Primer still lives in people's memories–you're not the first person I've seen mention it. Maybe I should revive it at some point, but without an official forum I'm not really sure where would be a good place to put it.

Sept. 27, 2016 11:40:15 AM

David de la Iglesia
Judge (Uncertified)

Europe - East

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Callum Milne <forum-30209-b126@apps.
magicjudges.org> wrote:

> I'm not really sure where would be a good place to put it.


Please contact me privately,​ let's see what we can do.


//DLI

Jan. 19, 2017 03:41:41 AM

Jacopo Strati
Judge (Level 5 (International Judge Program))

Italy and Malta

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

I found this free tool on the web. It's able to compare two different PDFs and find their differences.
I'm using it just right now for comparing the last two IPG versions. :D

You can find it here (this link already brings to the comparison I'm speaking about).

Edited Jacopo Strati (Jan. 19, 2017 08:24:50 AM)

Jan. 19, 2017 11:56:26 AM

Jorge Rua
Judge (Level 2 (Judge Academy)), Scorekeeper

Iberia

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

You can use also the “Compare files” in word.

May 6, 2019 05:28:35 AM

Maxime Eychenne
Judge (Level 1 (Judge Academy))

France

Is there a "diff" of the policy documents?

The closest thing I can think off is https://vensersjournal.com

I find it very clear and straightforward.

M.E