Talk:Adaptive Ailerons/@comment-108.35.3.58-20161209040937/@comment-454133-20161209154338

Larger discussions of logical falacies aside, the rules of the game don't provide granting conditional ability text on a negative. If you satisfy the condition, you get the following ability text. If you don't satisfy the condition, you don't get to assume you still get the ability text. If there's an otherwise result, the cards literally use the word "otherwise", "if not", or something similar.

"If you do your chores, then you can take a cookie" doesn't mean if you don't do your chores, you can still take a cookie. You can try to reason your way to that all you want, but that way lies madness and social isolation. More immediately, your opponent will tell you to get lost, and he has every right to do so.