Actually it has 41. The elite AT-AT driver was added when WOTC painted the 181st Pilot like a at-at driver.

Not on the wizards database. If you want to include promo's there are quite a few missing from the boards

your correct it is not a promo, its a fans custom piece, read the article, it says he is a fan and look closely at the card, says 41 out of 40 which means it is an outside addition and not an official piece, for you to convince me that it is an official piece you will need to show me the stamped plastic imprint on the bottom of said piece and you can't do that because it is not official, it is recognized as nice work but if you can not run it in dci sanctioned tournament it is not official.(the exception being the AT-AT which is an official licensed scenario piece)

bloviating??

Hmmmm, Bloviate, a very inappropriate use of the word. It may be an official piece for now, but it does not belong in the Imperial entanglements set list. It does not come out of the booster set unmodified. Now as a collector this precedence bothers me, as a player it infuriates me since they are now blatantly contradicting the rules, which say there are no printable star wars cards available for the game then they do this without updating that section so the printed custom figure is still illegal and I will stand by that. I wish to thank everyone for their earnest debate, but the personal attack by joelker41 was most appreciated. So just out of curiosity do all of you agree with wizards method in this case or do you think (like me) that this could have been issued as either a promo or a piece in the next set with no problems. Oh and if you wish to attack some one please consider that if you wouldn't SAY it to someones face you may not wish to type it.
And this part of my previous statement still holds true "look closely at the card, says 41 out of 40 which means it is an outside addition and not an official piece, for you to convince me that it is an official piece you will need to show me the stamped plastic imprint on the bottom of said piece"

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@ Steelwing13

1. It's WOTC's game, they can do whatever they darn well please with it. If they want to create a pieces that's 41/40, then they do. If they want to make it legal for tournament play, then they do.

2. Legality only matters for DCI. The Elite AT-AT Driver is no more illegal for casual SWM games than any custom pieces are. What you play with in your casual games is whatever you want to. In addition, the Floor Rules were updated at the next time they were scheduled to (July) so that this piece is now legal for DCI as well. The Floor Rules weren't updated in March/April when the Elite AT-AT Driver was released, because they weren't ready to update the Floor Rules yet. There's a process to this stuff.

3. You're arguing something that the vast majority of SWM players seem to feel opposite to you. In addition, you flat out told Doogle that it was "an outside addition and not an official piece", and your post comes off with a very arrogant attitude. Whether that's how you meant it or not, that's way it was read by SEVERAL others. So if you intended it differently, then these responses are just a friendly help to say "Hey, might want to be careful how you respond to people." On top of the fact that you were flat-out wrong about the piece, and obviously didn't do much reading around the WOTC forums regarding this before you started "bloviating" about it. Oh, and use of that word isn't a personal attack. It was an accurate description of the attitude conveyed by your posts. It's no different than someone saying "Woah, man, maybe you should check your facts before you go laying into people like that."

4. Oh, lastly, the AT-AT IS legal for DCI tournament play (another error in your post above). Stating false things as though you think they are true, AND telling other people that this is the truth, doesn't get people believing in you very easily. And hence, is why you got somewhat volatile responses.

5. Lastly, this is Shinja's site, and he can do anything he wants to with his sets. If he wants to go back and add a 61/60 for the Glass Jabba jokes when Bounty Hunters came out, that's his call to do so, and if that's what he wants, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

YEAH!!!

Sorry, I got excited by all the yelling. God I live the internet and it giving us the ability to have discussions like this with people we will never meet. It's like living here in Ohio, having two cans connected by a REALLY long string and giving one end to my arch enemy in Colorado.

LOLZ

Painting the miniature is optional and DCI Legal. However, the matching stat card must be the original card (unless otherwise noted, at this time the Elite AT-AT driver is an exception and allowed in DCI sanctioned tournaments). The matching miniature must not be modified to any shape or form... must retain it's original sculpt and modifications on paint jobs are allowed for DCI tournaments