[Xietor]

"Erm, so it's more fair for the unique artifact (Chalice) to be unobtainable if you're not the first person to hit construction 8?"

1. It takes a significant risk to go to constr 8. Not many combat spells in that line. So if you get ambushed and you are at constr 6 and another player is at evoc 6, then you may pay for that risk dearly. So yes, if a player takes the risk and makes it to constr 8 1st, I think he should be able to keep the chalice until it is taken from him.

2. The Chalice is not "unobtainable" because you cannot wish for it. Killing the person holding the chalice is a tried and true method of getting it as well. Just like killing the caster who puts up a global is another method to bring it down. You do not always need to cast dispel or overwrite it.

Many const 8 artifacts have become available every turn as races kill the holders of these artifacts in the Big Game.