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Thanks Duskwaever. Really appreciate the effort. Scan with masking was brilant :P

See the fact this general affirmation about Wizards automatically having proficiency with tomes appears under a general Magic Implement entry is what makes me say it is not necessarly authoritative. It doesn't even state they get it, but have it, saying it as if to remind people all have it.

This book that published the Sha'ir, a Wizard subclass, which 46 pages later state that Wizards automatically having proficiency with tomes, wasn't even given profificncy in tomes in his class write ups, leads me to think it was a sentence tossed without proper consideration.

I am not supposed to discover my Bladesinger Implement Profiency in some Magic Items entries of books not discussing Bladesingers.  I am not supposed to discover my Sha'ir Implement Profiency in some Magic Items entries later in the book discussing Sha'ir neither. 

Hence why i question the validity of this affirmation rule-wise.   If their intent is to squeeze a new Proficiency into already published Classes, they way its done in MME and HoTEC is pretty poorly handled IMO as its questionable both RAW and RAI.

1st paragraph in the New Implements section (Arcane Power, p98)  "The Player's Handbook describes how wizards can make use of orbs, staffs, and wands to help channel and direct their arcane power.  Now wizards can add the tome to their available implements and choose it for their Arcane Implement Mastery class feature."

there isn't anything at the beginning of the Tome item section, except to note that if you can't use tomes as implements, you don't get any benefit from them, their properties, or their powers.



edited to add that I just noticed Plague had already quoted the AP text, so I will just point out that Arcane Initiate was changed in the updates:

Arcane Initiate
{PHB}Page 208: Replace the third paragraph of the Benefit
section with “In addition, you can use wizard implements.” The former text did not take into account new
implements, such as the tome, which was introduced in Arcane Power

which either clarifies or further obfuscates the situation

Customer Services answered for my Rule-Of-Three submission with the following answer below.

I wish it makes it eventually to the famous column but no guarantees. Or that a FAQ or Rule Update come clarify this confusion in one way or another. 

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Isn't there a rule that says that specific rules beat general rules?  Wouldn't a rule that says "all wizards can use tomes" be a general rule, while class write-ups are examples of specific wizard rules, thus beating the general rule?