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Question about Isareth the Awakener’s replacement effect
Playing commander with Skullbriar, the Walking Grave at the helm. Can I reanimate Skullbriar with Isareth, but reroute him to the command zone (keeping his +1/+1 counters) the next time he dies? | Sure.
Skullbriar says his counters stick around as it moves anywhere other than graveyard or library. That includes the command zone. | 2 |
Simple question about The Gitrog Monster (that I'm ebarassed to ask...)
Simply put: Is Gitrog herself a sac outlet, or do I need some other way to discard a land?
Lets say I have 6 basic lands on the battlefield and Gitrog. No instants in hand that could sac a land. Am I allowed to just sac a land \to\ Gitrog, or will ... | Gitrog forces you to sacrafice a land or her during the beginning of your upkeep. Its a choice you make when her triggered ability is on the stack and you are resolving it. It only happens once, so you can not repeat until her ability triggers again. (During upkeep.)
If another effect makes you sacrafice a land, it wil... | 3 |
Question abour Graft
If more than the original amount of +1/+1 counters are placed on a card with graft, can they be moved to creatures entering the battlefield also? I just wanted to check before I ordered a card. | Considering graft let's you move counters from the creature to another creature that entered the battlefield under your control, it doesn't matter how many counters are on the creature with graft so long as another creature entered to move the counters to. If it has graft 1 and you put 6 +1/+1 counters on it, then have... | 2 |
Soulflayer exiling Knight of Malice...
Our conclusion is that [[Soulflayer]] will get normal 'Hexproof' rather than the 'Hexproof from White' variant when exiling [[knight of Malice]].
There is a precedence with [[Death-Mask Duplicant]] for copying landwalk and protection abilities that pretty clearly uses the specific... | Concerted Effort would give the specific forms of protection. If we considered Hexproof as functionally equivalent to Hexproof from everything, it seems reasonable that it would only get the limited form of Hexproof, just like Concerted Effort wouldn't grant Protection from Everything if a creature had Protection from ... | 1 |
Question about shattering spree
So I have a guttersnipe out, and I draw shattering spree.
I use a seething song to add 5r, but there are only 2 artifacts out, i have one and my opponent has 1. Can I target only my opponent's artifact with shattering spree and again with 4 replicates of it? I'm aware only 1 will resolve... | Yeah, you can target the same artifact with them all.
Note that those are copied not cast though, so the replicated copies don't trigger guttersnipe. | 2 |
How would I determine the order of these cards affects.
If I, for example, had 1 Winding Constrictor, 1 Corpsejack Menace and 1 Hardened Scales, and then I placed a +1/+1 counter on a creature, how would I determine the order in which first three cards resolve?
| Short version: you choose.
Those are all replacement effects, so the controller of the thing affected (or the person affected) orders things.
There are 3 available replacements, so you choose one (since I assume you're doing it on a creature you control). Then you look around and see that there are 2 still left, so you... | 2 |
NINJUSTU HELP
Hi ok here’s the exact situation. Ninja of the deep hours is out. Owner enters combat, declares attacks, then in response to declare attackers, activated rogue passage ability, then after no blocks declared, ninjutus during combat damage into Yuriko the tigers shadow. Can another player respond to combat ... | Ok, "in response to declare attackers" is the wrong way to think about it. What's actually happening is that there are steps of combat, something special happens at the beginning of most of these steps, then both players (starting with the active player) get priority to cast instants and activate abilities, then if bot... | 3 |
Rules Qs: Bronze Bombshell / Firesong stuff
I help with two rules.
1. I have a Bronze Bombshell and cast Mirrorweave turning, say the opponent's goblin army into bombshells. Do they explode? Or do I have to donate my bombshell over there? Will that make all of them explode? Do I have to donate 3 creatures via Sky Swall... | I have a Bronze Bombshell and cast Mirrorweave turning, say the opponent's goblin army into bombshells. Do they explode?
Nope, Mirrorweave doesn't change either a card's owner or its controller. Those creatures are still both owned and controlled by your opponent, so they don't explode.
I have a Firesong and Sunspeak... | 2 |
Scarab God & Vizier of Many Faces Interaction...?
Carnage Tyrant and Scarab God on board, and a Vizier of Many Faces in grave; the player chooses to bring back Vizier copying the Carnage Tyrant. Is the Vizier a 7/6 or a 4/4? and is the card Green or Black? | 7/6. Green. The 4/4 part is the “ink” that gets overridden by the copy replacement effect. | 2 |
Guardian of the gatless defending against trample
So if I have a 6/6 trample creature and and 4 2/2 creatures attacking into guardian of the gatless would the trample damage go through. Because all damage happens at the same time. Ty | It's normally a 3/3, its trigger gives it +5/+5 so it's an 8/8.
You get to choose the order that you want to assign damage so can choose the four 2/2's each assigning 2 for 8 total and lethal and then assign the 6/6 trampling through.
You could start with the 6/6 and then have the 2/2's pile on if you prefer, but the ... | 1 |
Liquid metal coating and deretti's ult
So if I were to ult off deretti scrap savant and then use liquid metal coating to make a non-artifact into an artifact for the turn, if that permenant were to get destroyed would deretti return it? | if that permenant were to get destroyed would deretti return it?
Yes.
LtB triggers look back at the game state before the event and see an artifact leave so trigger.
- 603.10 Normally, objects that exist immediately after an event are checked to see if the event matched any trigger conditions, and continuous effects... | 2 |
The scarab god and / creatures
Simple question, but if you use [[ the scarab god]] or [[god pharaoh’s gift]] or [[hour of eternity]] to create a token copy of a creature with rules text that sets their power to a specific value, e.g. tarmigoyf or [[tishana, voice of thunder]], does the power set to a 4/4, or does the r... | It’s power/toughness will be 4/4.
706.9d. When applying a copy effect that doesn't copy a certain characteristic, retains an original value for a certain characteristic, or modifies the final value of a certain characteristic, any characteristic-defining ability (see rule 604.3) of the object being copied that defines ... | 3 |
Question about etb triggers
If I have Mycosynth Lattice and Mirrorworks in play and I play an urza tower, can I pay 2 and have a token of urza tower enter the battlefield? Cuz that would be pretty freaking awesome | Sure.
Lattice makes the lands artifacts as soon as they're on the battlefield, and ETB's check just after entry... so they're artifacts by that point. | 1 |
Vaevictis and World Shaper
Do Vaevictis and World Shaper have a cost or is sacrificing permanents and milling 3 cards part of the effect on resolution? | The cards themselves have a cost (top right corner).
But the effects you're referring to are things that take place on resolution of the triggered ability. | 2 |
Lazav and Helm of the Host
Are the copies of lazav legendary or not? | No, it's not legendary. The token copies whatever Lazav currently is and then removes the legendary supertype if it's there. | 1 |
Assigning more than lethal damage with trample
The situation. I was playing a deaths shadow mirror my opponent had a Gurmag Angler and a Temur Battle Rage I had a 6/6 deaths shadow, Could he have assigned all the damage to my deaths shadow to trade? Ive been told both so im trying to get some clarification.
Thanks | You are correct. Trample gives you the the option to assign damage to the defending player once every blocking creature has been assigned lethal damage. But its still just an option. You can assign more to the creatures blocking if you wish. | 2 |
the gitrog monster, chains of mephistopheles and dakmor salvage
Hello. I was wondering what would happen if I had the gitrog monster and chains of mephistopheles on the battlefield, and was about to draw a card (not the first of the turn). Say I discard dakmor salvage, and then, instead of drawing a card as instructed ... | how many times would the gitrog monster trigger?
Twice.
The original event is {draw a card} you apply Chains and it becomes two resulting sequential modified events {discard a card} {draw a card} as it's not possible to simultaneously draw and discard.
Event #1 has you discard Salvage triggering TGM.
You then apply... | 2 |
Brain in a Jar + cards with X in their mana cost.
I already know the ruling because it is stated on Brain in a Jar's page:
But this really disappoints me. When you play a card with X in the mana cost it would seem you are choosing it's cost first. and then paying the mana (that is logically what happens in your head). ... | But this really disappoints me. When you play a card with X in the mana cost it would seem you are choosing it's cost first. and then paying the mana (that is logically what happens in your head). If I am playing Banefire, I am first deciding the cost to be 5C + 1R and then paying the cost.
Everything in this paragrap... | 2 |
Interaction between Treasure Nabber and Bazaar Trader.
If I nabbed someone’s mana rocks, then use them on my turn, and then trade them to a third party, do they maintain possession until they use them in which case I get them back, or does control revert back to the player I nabbed them from until they use them in whic... | No, control stays with the third party, since there's no end condition on Bazaar Trader's ability. The fact that Treasure Nabber's ability has an end time doesn't matter when you don't control the artifact anymore. | 2 |
Do-nothing four color combo
What happens if I have [[Blood Moon]], [[Opalescense]], [[Life and Limb]], and [[Arcane Adaptation]] out at the same time?
EDIT: played in order listed. Arcane Adaptation choosing Saproling. | What happens if I have Blood Moon, Opalescense, Life and Limb, and Arcane Adaptation out at the same time?
In what order did they enter?
What creature type was chosen for Arcane Adaptation?
Are there creatures, forests or nonbasic lands on the field?
Blood Moon applies in Layer 4.
Opalescence applies in Layer 4 and ... | 1 |
Question about Suspend
Does the order in which you suspend the cards matter? When all counters are removed do you have to cast them in the order they were suspended? Or when all counters are removed can I then choose to cast them in the order i please? | You put the suspend triggers on the stack in the order of your choice during your upkeep so you can control the order they cast by stacking the triggers appropriately | 1 |
Question about combo
Does Ghoulcaller gisa + thornbite staff + pitiless plunderer make infinite zombies? | An arbitrarily large number of zombies, yes.
You do need another creature to start it off though. | 3 |
Question about power and toughness modifiers
If a card adds +3/+3 until the end of turn added to a creature, and this creature gets 3 damage, will the 3 thoughness get subtracted after the turn ends, so the creature dies? | Both damage marked on a creature, and buffs that last until end of turn, are removed at exactly the same time in game, so a toughness boost until end of turn, can save a creature. | 7 |
Wormfang Drake triggered abilities on the stack...
I played Wormfang Drake, the spell resolved, I chose psychatog as the target creature to be removed from play.
Before the trigger resolved, my opponent played terror, causing the Drake's second ability to trigger which brings psychatog back into play.
Does that mean th... | Important to note, [[Wormfang Drake]] does not target (I checked the Gatherer text as well just to make sure it wasn't errated). By declaring Psychatog before your opponent responds, you are proposing a shortcut, not targeting. Your opponent declines the shortcut by responding to the ability.
The second ability then go... | 3 |
Reveillark rules question
So today I was playing edh and I evoke [[Reveillark]] and I decide to bring back [[fiend hunter]] and [[Viscera Sear]]. I said “Evoking Reveillark targeting fiend hunter and viscera sear then with the hunters ability on the stack I’ll sac it to exile it forever”. My opponent says that his crea... | You are correct. Reveillark returns both creatures simultaneously. Fiend Hunter's enters ability triggers, then you can sacrifice the Fiend Hunter, causing its leaves ability to trigger before its enters ability does and, ultimately, permanently\ exiling the creature you targeted with the enters trigger.
\ barring any ... | 2 |
Permanently exile a commander face down
Hello,
this post is not a question. I already discussed it on #mtgrules.
The rationale for the post is, that - \- searching this question yields a lot of wrong and outdated answers.
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Consider some player uses to put someone else's commander on top of their library.
Accord... | So you're providing it as a PSA then? | 1 |
Question about battle bond partner
This is a stupid question
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Say you have Regna the redeemer and play her.
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She says "When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Krav into their hand from their library, then shuffle."
Does this mean I can target someone and basically make them shuf... | The wording on the card is reminder text, so it helps to look at the rules text on the Gatherer page to resolve nuances.
When this permanent enters the battlefield, target player may search their library for a card named [name], reveal it, put it into their hand, then shuffle their library.
It's more clear here that t... | 2 |
Question about EDH
If I have a colorless commander, say Ulamog the ceaseless hunger, could I have cards with colored devotion that are devoid? I mean technically they have no color but have colored devotion.
Idk please help | You can't. They have no color but they do have color identity, which is what's important in Commander.
903.4. The Commander variant uses color identity to determine what cards can be in a deck with a certain commander. The color identity of a card is the color or colors of any mana symbols in that card’s mana cost or r... | 2 |
Question about ability and phasing
If I trigger an enter the battlefield ability and use Teferi's Protection (Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you have protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phas... | do I phase out
You don't, but your permanents do. You're still in the game and can be affected by things that protection doesn't interact with.
the ability still triggers?
Yes, it already triggered and it'll resolve normally. | 2 |
Question about cycling triggers
Hello, I am currently in the progress of building my \[\[Kydele\]\] // \[\[Ravos\]\] deck. And I have a question regarding Kydele's tap for mana ability. Let's say I have her, and either \[\[Drake Haven\]\] or \[\[Wharf Infiltrator\]\] on the field. Let's say I have multiple creatures in... | You pay 2 to cycle Angel of the God-Pharoah, the "Draw a card" ability wants to go on the stack.
Wharf Infiltrator sees this and wants to put its trigger on the stack.
Drake Heaven also sees this and wants to put its trigger on the stack.
Now that you're about to get priority, you've got 3 things going on the stack at ... | 2 |
Concerning conspire and Bonus round
Building a wort the raidmother EDH. If I conspire bonus round and then conspire shock how many copies of shock do i cast | Your shock would be copied thrice, one for each bonus round, one from conspire. With the original, there will be 4 copies of shock on the stack. | 1 |
Question about Indestructible
What would happen if I had an indestructible 5/5 creature, use it to block a 4/4 and then my opponent gives it a -1/-1 counter? | Nothing.
It'd become a 4/4 with 4 damage marked on it so a state-based action would attempt to destroy it and fail because it's indestructible. | 3 |
Question Goreclaw
Does goreclaw reduces the green mana required for Gigantosaurus and Steel Leaf? | No, he reduces the generic mana costs, like he says. It makes the appropriate creatures cost 2 generic mana less. If their mana costs don't include any generic mana costs to begin with, it won't do anything. | 1 |
Question about [[Curious obsession]] and [[Jace, Cunning Castaway]] +1 ability
So if I +1 [[Jace, Cunning Castaway]] and have my [[Slither blade]] attached with [[Curious obsession]] and it deals combat damage, so which will go first my curious obsession draw or the [[Jace, Cunning Castaway]] +1 ability to draw and dis... | You control both triggers so you choose their order of being put on the stack and therefore the order that they resolve in. | 2 |
Chord of Calling and Creature ETB Triggers
A question came up while playing a game. During my turn, I used Chord of Calling to put a Reclamation Sage onto the battlefield. Upon casting, my opponent did not respond to the Chord; however, once the Reclamation Sage came onto the battlefield he attempted to play Teferi's P... | When Sage enters the battlefield, its ability triggers and goes on the stack. That can be responded to. | 2 |
If I animate a [[mox amber]] with [[sydri, galvanic genius]] using the mana it creates can I recur it over and over again since it's both an artifact and a creature through use of [[salvaging station]] for infinite etbs?
| Infinite EtB's of the Mox Amber, sure. | 1 |
Chaos Wand hitting a spell with no valid targets (except itself)
This is probably a very easy to answer question, but, I am not sure about the correct answer.
The other day I was playing Booster Draft and used Chaos Wand, and the first Instant/Sorcery my opponent revealed was a Naturalize. The problem is, he had no art... | If I choose to cast the spell, would I be forced to destroy my own Chaos Wand?
Of course. You can't cast a spell without all it's targets being chosen.
You probably want to choose not to cast the spell.
What if the Instant/Sorcery discovered had no valid targets? Something like a Murder with no creatures on the Battl... | 1 |
Rules question with choose
For commander, can cards like Prahv, Spires of Order, with choose a card, choose a card in a command zone like Commanders?
Thanks for any help you are able to give. | Yes, you can choose a card in the command zone for a card like Prahv that chooses a source of damage. You wouldn’t be able to choose a card in the command zone if it said something like “choose a permanent”.
119.7. The source of damage is the object that dealt it. If an effect requires a player to choose a source of d... | 2 |
Starfield of Nyx odd case
If I have previously played a [[Heliod, God of the Sun]] and 3 other enchantments (4 enchantments total on board) and I have 4 devotion to white, when [[Starfield of Nyx]] enters, will the heliod become a 5/6 creature due to starfield making my devotion to white 5, or will heliod become a 4/4 ... | It's a 4/4 Creature.
Timestamps matter here... paying attention when each effect came into the game.
In layer 4, we have the "I'm not a creature" ability which isn't doing anything, so Heliod natively is a creature. Then Starfield redundantly says it's a creature.
In layer 7, we have Heliod as a 5/6 natively (since it'... | 1 |
Dredge + Skeleton Key
1. If I deal combat damage with a creature equipped with Skeleton Key I "..may draw a card. If you do, discard a card."
2. I want to use Golgari Grave Troll (Dredge 6) to replace the draw effect.
Now I choose to draw a card, but I replaced the draw with the dredge - so I didn't really "draw" a car... | You still have to discard. I would explain it as the "if you do" doesn't refer to if you draw the card, but if you choose to use the ability. So you say "yes, I'll draw and discard", replace the draw with a dredge, and discard a card.
(Which usually is a good thing in a deck that plays dredge cards) | 4 |
Nexus of fate stalling question.
Ok so a weird situation happened at my local game shop. Bant turbo fog vs mardu aggro. Game 2 got to the point of the turbo fog player only having 4 nexus of fate left in his deck. He spent the last 10 min of the round continually casting nexus with no other non-land permanents or cards... | Would this be considered stalling?
Possibly. If they're doing it intentionally to kill the clock and they aren't meaningfully advancing the game state and they know or suspect that doing so isn't kosher, yes.
- MTR 5.5 Slow Play - Players must take their turns in a timely fashion regardless of the complexity of the ... | 3 |
Rubinia Soulsinger and Vanishing interaction
On XMage, I played an EDH match comprising my [[The Ur-Dragon]] deck, a [[Rubinia Soulsinger]] phasing deck, and an [[Atraxa, Praetors' Voice]] deck.
The Rubinia player enchanted Rubinia with [[Vanishing]] and tapped Rubinia to gain control of The Ur-Dragon. On a later turn,... | From the Comp Rules:
702.25e Continuous effects that affect a phased-out permanent may expire while that permanent is phased out. If so, they will no longer affect that permanent once it’s phased in. In particular, effects with “for as long as” durations that track that permanent (see rule 611.2b) end when that permane... | 3 |
indomitable creativity Vs. Totem Armor
I was wondering about the interaction between Indomitable Creativity and Totem Armor is. It states: "Destroy X target artifacts and/or creatures. For each permanent destroyed this way, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until an artifact or creature card is... | 1) Nope, the word target only appears once, so all the targets have to be different.
2) I can't find anything that provides a solid interpretation of this interaction (given the fuzziness of English), but I'd argue that it would not include the totem armor enchantments.
My reasoning: The destroy event was replaced with... | 3 |
Question about kaalia of the vast trigger
If I use kaalia to summon master of cruelties. How would the effects happen? Would their live go to 1 then kaalia do damage or would it just sit at 1?
| They'd most likely lose.
MoC would set their life to 1 in the declare blockers step and Kaalia would bring them below 0 in the combat damage step. | 1 |
Tidal Warrior X Blood Moon
So I have a Blood Moon in play and a Teramorphic Expanse on the battlefield because, hey, free mountain. My opponent tap Tidal Warrior and makes my TE (which is a mountain) an island until EOT.
Am I right to assume that my land is an island because of timestamp order or is there something I'm... | Depends on which was a permanent first. If you played blood moon and some time afterwards tidal warrior came into play, your terramorphic expanse is a mountain. And vice versa | 3 |
is it possible to cast a spell for its bestow cost with sunbirds invocation?
| One of Invocation's rulings is
29/09/2017 If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Costly Plunder, those must be paid to cast the card.
A rule for bestow is
702.102a: Be... | 3 |
Giving infect to damage on the stack
Say I have a pinger, for the sake of this question lets say Prodigal Sorcerer. I tap him to put his 1 damage on the stack, and I then cast Tainted Strike on him to give him +1/+0 and Infect until end of turn. Does the 1 damage on the stack also give an infect counter?
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Are t... | Does the 1 damage on the stack also give an infect counter?
If it hits a creature, the damage will be applied by putting a -1/-1 counter on it.
If it hits a player, the damage will be applied by putting a poison counter on the player.
If it hits a planeswalker, the damage will be applied by removing a loyalty counter... | 2 |
Colossal Whale + Polymorphist's Jest
I was testing some EDH decks against each other and ran into a scenario that completely puzzled me.
Jalira has [[Colossal Whale]] with Jhoira & Ezuri's commanders under it.
Jhoira activates the [[Oblivion Stone]] she dropped the previous turn.
In response to the activation Jalira ca... | When the whale's trigger resolves, it creates a one-shot effect that exiles the creature until that object leaves the battlefield. Even though the whale is now a frog without the original ability, the ability that exiled the creatures remembers the duration it defined when it resolved. The creatures will come back when... | 2 |
Xantcha and flickerform
How does xantcha's effect work when she re-enters from exile from flicker form? | How does Xantcha's effect work when she re-enters from exile from flicker form?
1) Xantcha is about to return with her owner as the default controller and her replacement effect has her owner choose one of their opponents
2) Xantcha enters with its owner as the default controller and a layer 2 control effect simultan... | 2 |
Toothy/legend rule
Hello. I am confusing myself on the interaction of [[toothy]] and multiple clones when kicked [[rite of replication]]. Say I have a toothy with two +1/+1 cointers, [[Pir]] is on field, I cast Rite of Replication targeting toothy. I know ETB would trigger. But I am confused in the leave the battle fie... | I know ETB would trigger.
Neither of them have an EtB trigger.
Would my last toothy have 64 +1/+1 counters?
2 or 4, depending on whether you keep the original or the copy. | 3 |
Clockspinning and Thing in the Ice
Hi, I've got a quick timing question about \[\[Thing in the Ice\]\] and \[\[Clockspinning\]\]. If I have a Thing in the Ice with 2 ice counters on it, then cast Clockspinning, here's what I think would happen:
Casting Clockspinning, targeting Thing in the Ice, goes on the stack.
Thing... | You understand correctly. No flip, no way to reorder. | 5 |
Kaalia and Aurelia the war leader
If I attack with kaalia and put Aurelia out, kaalia gets another swing right? So if I were to drop another Aurelia, sac the original and attack with the new one, so I get to attack with kaalia a third time in one turn? | [[Kaalia the Vast]], [[Aurelia, the Warleader]].
This combo does not work. If Kaala (or any other effect) puts a creature onto the battlefield "tapped and attacking," that creature's "When this creature attacks" ability does not get a chance to trigger that combat because it was never technically declared as an attacki... | 2 |
Zameck Guildmage ability and an Evolve creature on board.
Does the “comes with an additional +1/+1 counter” help trigger evolve on your already played creatures?
Note: Evolve wouldn’t have triggered if the creature wasn’t +1/+1. | Yes. The counter is put on it simultaneous with its entry so affects it's power and toughness for determining if a creature with evolve would trigger. | 3 |
Can you draw cards in between draw triggers if you have flash?
Say I am in the middle of drawing a bunch of cards and I draw Obstinate Familiar or Laboratory Maniac. Can I cast either of them in between drawing cards if I have Vedalken Orrery or Leyline of Anticipation? | It would depend.
If the drawing was caused by a bunch of triggers with one draw per trigger, then yes, you could.
On the other hand, if it was one resolving spell or ability having you draw multiple cards, then no. | 1 |
Life and Limb land saprolings + Muraganda Petroglyphs
If I play Life and Limb to turn my saprolings into forests and forests into saprolings, are these considered to have no abilities? Ie could they get +2 +2 from Muraganda Petroglyphs?
I apologize if this is a stupid question. We are very casual players.
Bonus questio... | When they become forests, they gain the inherent ability mana ability that comes with being a forest. Since they have an ability, they don't get the Petro-buff.
Same for Dryad Arbor. It has an ability, so no glyphie-bonus. | 2 |
Muldrotha and Bestow
If I have Muldrotha in play and Baleful Eidolon in my graveyard, and I bestow the Eidolon onto Muldrotha, does that count as Muldrotha's creature or enchantment for the turn, or can I choose which one it counts as?
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Muldrotha, the Gravetide {3}{B}{G}{U}
Legendary Creature — Elemental Avatar... | Your choice.
You can choose it as your creature card or as your enchantment card, how you play or cast it is immaterial to the choice you make as long as the card is the chosen type in the yard.
- Q: I control Muldrotha, the Gravetide and play a Zoetic Cavern face-down from my graveyard. Which Muldrotha permission do... | 5 |
Harmless offering and worldgorger dragon
My opponent has Phyrexian Unlife among other permanents under their control. If I use Harmless offering to "gift" the worldgorger to them, does that means unlife leaves play until the Dragon leaves? | does that means unlife leaves play until the Dragon leaves?
No.
You put WGD on the field so you control it as its EtB triggers and as a result you will control the WGD trigger and have to exile all your stuff.
Harmless Offering will just give them the one thing that you would have otherwise had.
You'll get your stuff... | 1 |
Emerald Medallion and Multikick
Hello,
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Me and a friend have been playing Magic for a while, but we still got confused about this rule when it came up recently in a game we played. During a commander game he was playing tribal elves, and had Emerald Medallion on the field, getting us confused how it affected th... | Put succinctly.
Emerald Medallion reduces the cost to cast the spell, not the cost to kick it.
As a result, it will reduce the cost of the spell by (1), not (1) per kick. | 3 |
Exploit the stack
Hello everyone, I have a question based on the ability "Exploit" coming from Dragons of Tarkir and the best moment to respond to it.
I know some similar question may have been asked in the past (don't know if it's best to create new post or dig an old one '-')
In my case I plan to make a commander dec... | You can do that. If you do, you’ll draw then search.
There’s no way to order things where it’s search then draw. | 1 |
Overburden rules
The Oracle text of [[Overburden]] says "Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield..."
Is there a difference between what is above and simply "Whenever a non token creature enters the battlefield..."? | Nope! They do the exact same thing! | 1 |
Can Etched Champion die from Devastating Dreams?
Let's say I have 2 memnarch and 3 artifact lands in play along with Etched Champion
Opponent casts Devastating Dreams and wipes out my Memnarchs and artifact lands.
Etched Champion had metalcraft, then it lost it. Does my Etched Champion survive?
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Thank you in ad... | It does survive, yes.
So, lands get sacrificed. Etched Champion still has metalcraft.
Then Devastating Dreams goes to deal 5 damage to each creature (at the same time). Lethal damage is marked on the Memnarchs, and nothing happens to the Etched Champion because it still has protection, because it still has metalcraft. ... | 2 |
Torpor orb vs Inalla and the Command Zone
Does Torpor Orb stop Eminence if Inalla is in the command zone? | It certainly does. Why wouldn't it?
Inalla's ability triggers when a creature enters the battlefield. The Orb prevents creatures entering the battlefield from causing abilities to trigger. | 3 |
Havengul lich question
If I have havengul lich out on the field, ashnods alter, and at least ten creatures attacking, I activate lich for his effect, targeting ancient stone idol in my yard.
So first question: does it still cost 0 based on the 10 attacking creatures?
Second question: if I can cast it, then I sacrifice ... | Yes, the cost reduction still applies. You're casting the Ancient Stone Idol, even though it's not in your hand.
Yes, you need to activate Havengul Lich's ability again if you want to cast the Idol again. When cards change zones, they become new game objects, so the effect that gave you permission to cast the previous ... | 2 |
Urborg losing its abilities
Hey,
So I was reading the oracle comments on [[Urborg, tomb of Yawgmoth]] and I'm a bit confused on how this part works:
If Urborg loses its abilities (for example, if it becomes a creature and then Turn to Frog targets it), all lands on the battlefield, including Urborg, will still be Swamp... | The mechanical answer is because of layers. Layers are a list of kinds of effects, and a priority order for how you apply them. To figure out what a card is on the battlefield, you start with the printed card, then apply all layer 1 effects (which is copy effects), then all layer 2 effects (control-changing effects), e... | 2 |
Medomai the Ageless and flicker
If I flicker or phase out Medomai would I be able to attack with it on extra turns or would it still be restricted? Is there a way of getting around this? | If I flicker or phase out Medomai would I be able to attack with it on extra turns or would it still be restricted?
Medomai can't attack on extra turns, as it says. Flickering it or whatever doesn't change that it can't attack on extra turns.
The only thing that might not be obvious here is what an "extra turn" is, te... | 2 |
How does Trostani Discordant interact with a permanent control effect like Control Magic?
[[Trostani Discordant]] [[Control Magic]]
So if I control Trostani and my opponent Control Magics one of my creatures, what happens in the end step? Do I regain control of my creature, SBAs are checked and my opponent gets it back... | what happens in the end step? Do I regain control of my creature?
Yes.
SBAs are checked and my opponent gets it back?
No.
Does my opponent just keep control of it?
No.
Do I get it back and Control Magic just sits there?
Yep.
I know layers doesn't come into it because Trostani's ability is triggered and not... | 2 |
Divine Visitation + Doubling Season
If I have a Doubling Season (or other token doubling effect) and Divine Visitation in play and I cast Raise the Alarm, how many 4/4 Angels do I get? Does Doubling Season only double the tokens Raise the Alarm would make or does it also double the amount of Angels Divine Visitation wo... | Timestamps don't matter here. Since you control the effect that's creating the tokens, you get to choose the order in which the replacement effects apply (this doesn't really matter, since they don't really interact with each other). After applying both replacement effects, in some order, you end up creating four 4/4 A... | 3 |
Hapatra, Archfiend of Ifnir, and discard effects
So I had a question about Interactions between [[Hapatra]], [[Archfiend of Ifnir]], and discard effects, specifically wheel effects and end step cleanup. For simplicity sake, let's assume Hapatra and Archfiend are on the battlefield, as well as a total of 3 opponent's cr... | It's easier to see it walked through so we'll do that.
The three cards are discarded simultaneously to Wheel.
This triggers Archfiend three times per 603.2c.
After Wheel has finished resolving, the three triggers are put on the stack.
After a priority pass, one of the Archfiend triggers resolves and puts a -1/-1 count... | 2 |
flash hulk question. well really just flash
with the way flash is worded, do I choose upon resolution or do I have to name the target when I cast? im new to the flash hulk scene and want to put it in my simic deck | also I barely visit reddit unless I have a rules question so I apologize for not linking the cards properly. I cant remember how on here | 2 |
Zacama Vs Control Magic
If I have a zacama, and someone plays a control magic (or any other enchantment that lets you control a creature), once the enchantment enters the battlefield, can I use zacama’s green ability to destroy the enchantment, or will they get control of it as a state based action? | Unfortunately no. The enchantment would have to be on the battlefield to be a legal target for Zacama, and as soon as it hits the battlefield the control magic player would have control of the creature. | 1 |
Angler Drake card text help - first game
Hi all, playing a first game with a blue welcome pack.
I've just cast Angler Drake and the text states "When angler drake enters the battlefield, you may return target creature to its owners hand"
What does this mean exactly? Why would Angler Drake have a target creature if it i... | What does this mean exactly?
It's an ability the Drake has, specifically, it's a triggered ability because it triggers when the indicated event occurs (ie. the Drake entering the battlefield).
It means that after you've cast your Drake spell and nobody counters it, that it enters the battlefield and trigger its abil... | 2 |
Misdirection targeting a kicked Blood Tribute
The opponent, who is at 1 life, targets me with a kicked Blood Tribute. I respond by casting Misdirection, targeting Blood Tribute. Misdirection resolves, and I change the target of Blood Tribute to my opponent.
1. Because kicking a Blood Tribute also causes lifegain, who i... | Misdirection resolves, and I change the target of Blood Tribute to my opponent.
You can't, that's not legal. Your opponent controls the spell and you can only change it to a legal target (ie. another opponent of theirs).
- 114.7a If an effect allows a player to “change the target(s)” of a spell or ability, each targ... | 2 |
Question about 2 Blocking Creatures on the same Attacking Creature.
I have a 3/4 and a 3/1 creature.
My opponent has a 4/4 creature.
He attacking me and I decide to use my both creatures blocking him. He choose to assign DMG to 3/4 first and follow by 3/1.
What will happen? my creatures die both or only 3/4 that die an... | Your blockers each assign 3 to the 4/4. The 4/4 assigns 4 to the 3/4. Damage is dealt as assigned so the 4/4 and 3/4 die. | 2 |
Zirilan with hoarding dragon
Does the exile count as dying, or will it just be gone with my artifact? | Does the exile count as dying?
Nope.
- 701.11a To exile an object, move it to the exile zone from wherever it is.
- 700.4 The term dies means “is put into a graveyard from the battlefield.”
will it just be gone with my artifact?
Yep, unless you have a way to kill it before the trigger resolves in the end step. | 1 |
Vraska Golgari Queen help
Hey guys,
So I went to my first prerelease event this weekend (new player of about a month, was really good fun!) and I pulled a foil Vraska , the Golgari Queen.
The argument in question is regarding her +2 ability, I’m under the impression that since it says ‘you MAY sacrifice a permanent’ th... | It's a 'May', so you can +2 her, and then choose whether or not to sac a permanent. So, you are correct. There have been loads of Planeswalkers like this, where the +1 had a 'May' clause, so you can keep ticking them up even if there are no legal targets. | 6 |
Mirage mirror interaction with Monstrous ability
There was a point in an EDH game tonight where I think I spotted a very neat lethal for my opponent.
Opponent had mirage mirror in play from turns ago and got a colossus of akros off of ugin's ultimate ability. I believe he could:
Activate mirage mirror targeting Colossu... | Being monstrous is tied to the permanent it is on, is not copiable, and does not care whether the permanent it is on changes characteristics.
In your particular example, once the Mirror becomes monstrous, it remains monstrous even as its characteristics change to be a copy of different things. Only the first monstrous ... | 2 |
priority during the main phase
So as a new player, priority and when you can cast instant speed spells is really confusing me :(
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Limiting the discussion to the main phase for now, let's say the active player plays a land card, taps for mana and casts two permanents onto the battlefield. Does the opponent get p... | can they respond after only one has been cast?
Yes, you can do this. A spell or non-mana ability can't resolve without a priority pass.
In practice, your opponent should give you an opportunity to respond after casting the first spell.
If they don't, you can back them up.
Effectively, your opponent proposed a shortc... | 3 |
Question about indestructible
Scenario, I'm facing a Karametra, I've done 6 damage to it, and then I use a fungal infection to give it -1/-1, would that final -1 toughness case it o Diego to state based effects? Or would it stick around because it didn't take -7 to toughness? | Is this situation, Karametra is a 5/6 indestructible with 6 damage marked on it. Dosen't die. You would indeed need to reduce her toughtness to 0. | 1 |
Illicit Auction Shenanigans
So I found a card called “illicit auction” and thought it seemed super cool, so I thought I’d make an interesting combo but don’t know no the interactions would work.
So I have a mirrorwing dragon on the field on the field and I then cast insurrection. All creatures are now under my control ... | The auction winner for that creature will retain control.
Control is determined using the layer system for continuous effects.
In most cases the default controller will control the permanent (ie. the player that put the permanent on the field).
However, layer 2 control effects can be placed onto the permanent. Some o... | 2 |
Surveil and Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
So I have a quick question about how surveil works with graveyard triggers, specifically with the "when one or more" phrasing is used and surveil is >1. For example, the interaction between Sidisi, Brood Tyrant and Doom Whisperer.
Sidisi triggers and gives you a single zombie "when one ... | I'm inclined to say you're right. See Sidisi's second ruling on the Oracle: " Any instruction, including Sidisi’s first ability, that tells you to put multiple cards from a library into a graveyard moves all the cards at the same time. For example, if Sidisi enters the battlefield and you put three creature cards into ... | 1 |
Divine visitation ruling
If you have 2 divine Visitation played, and you create a token, would you get 2 angels, or does 1 divine visitation supercede the other? | Nevermind, it just dawned on me that it doesn't create an angel, it replaces a token with an angel, so having 2 played is relatively useless. | 7 |
Prevent all combat damage question
If I have an empty board and my opponent has a 3/3 and swings at me.
I play an instant that says "prevent all combat damage this turn". Does that apply to me? as in, do I not take damage?
Reason I ask is because this situation came up at a lgs draft. I thought I could not take damage ... | "Combat damage" is only: Damage dealt in the combat damage step of the combat phase. Attacking creatures can deal combat damage to the defending player or one of their planeswalkers (if that's what they've been declared to attack) or one or more blocking creatures. Blocking creatures can deal combat damage to an attack... | 1 |
Dismiss into dream
If archetype of imagination and dismiss into dream are both on the board at the same time, does all opponents creatures get targeted and destroyed? | No. Archetype of Imagination doesn't target.
- 114.10a Just because an object or player is being affected by a spell or ability doesn’t make that object or player a target of that spell or ability. Unless that object or player is identified by the word “target” in the text of that spell or ability, or the rule for tha... | 1 |
Possibility Storm Rulings with Overload
For instance, if I have a [[Possibility Storm]] in play, then attempt to cast an instant, could I pseudo-cascade into a [[Cyclonic Rift]] and do the overload? | No. You can't use two different alternative costs.
If you cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as overload costs. You can pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those. | 2 |
Mox opal and improvise double mana.
Hi all. Can a mox opal or other mana producing artifact tap to add mana by its own and also contribute towards improvise? I would of thought that in terms of mana producing artifats you have to choose one or the other it can't be used for 'double mana'
Improvise says
702.125a Improvi... | You answered your own question. They can either tap the rock for mana or for improvise. Once it's tapped for mana it can't be used for improvise. You tap for improvise after mana abilities have been activated | 3 |
Lifelink on Volcano Hellion
I have on the battlefield. I cast . I can choose the Soulbond trigger to happen before the Volcano Hellion trigger, so if I choose to deal 5 million damage to myself and 5 million damage to a creature, do I gain 5 million life or do I just die? | Sure.
Since they both trigger on entering the battlefield, and you control both triggers, you can order them how you like.
Resolve the Pilgrim first, and they both have lifelink. Resolve the other and that damage hurts them and heals you since it all the damage happens at the same time. | 1 |
Thoughtseize
Returning magic player with stack questions
If I cast a creature and the opponent responds with thoughtseize, can he remove the creature being cast from my hand?
​ | No. When it is cast it is on the stack, not in your hand. He doesn't receive priority to cast Thoughtseize until you've passed priority after successfully putting something on the stack. | 1 |
Mentor of the meek and midnight guard
So I have cryptolith rite, mentor of the meek,
And midnight guard out.
I cast scatter the seeds, tapping midnight guard for one of the mana for the cost due to cryptolith rite.
Seeds resolves and I get 3 1/1 saprolings.
Mentor and guard have 3 triggers each.
Can I untap guard, then... | It looks like you can do it. I looked up something similar for the answer. Sorry I don't have the exact rule number or anything. | 1 |
Planeswalkers vs infect
Do Planeswalkers lose loyalty when successfully attacked and "damaged" by creatures with infect? | Yes, for creatures with infect still do damage, just in a different form. | 1 |
does casting = ETB?
i have an \[\[etherium-horn sorcerer\]\] out, and i decide to flicker it with \[\[essence flux\]\] . Does the sorcerer returning to play trigger cascade? The rules text of cascade says "When you cast this card..." and i didn't know if returning something to the battlefield (ETB) counts as a cast
&#x... | No - cascade only triggers when you cast the spell. Entering the Battlefield usually happens after casting but there are other ways to make that happen (like Essence Flux). | 3 |
If I make a Goldmeddow Harrier token with Goldmeddow Lookout, does it have a casting of 1 or 0?
| Tokens have a CMC of 0 unless they are token copies.
Lookout doesn’t make token copies, so the CMC of those Harriers is 0. | 2 |
Are hybrid & multicolor spells considered a spell color of both mana colors?
Say I have a Runaway Steam-Kin on the battlefield, would playing a League Guildmage activate the Runaway Steam-Kin's ability? What about a Piston-fist Cyclops? I'm thinking (hoping!) they would... | Yep, both kinds of spells are both colors, so this works the way you think it does. | 1 |
Instant "tap target creature" when can it take effect?
Sorry, more beginner questions ahead - it seems like every game brings up new ones...
On my turn, if I cast an instant at the beginning of combat step to tap one of my opponents creatures, I understand that means they cannot block with that creature.
Now on my oppo... | Not after, but you can say things like before you attack, I tap your creature. Most of the people I play against will say something along the lines of "I'd like to move to attacks" so you have a chance to do something before they attack, or if it's your turn and you'd like to attack, you can cast it anytime before your... | 1 |
Path of Mettle, When has a creature attacked?
Specifically is a creature considered to have attacked after the declare attackers step, or at some other point during or after combat. This is for the sake of the white ability on the flip land, because if they are considered to have attacked before damage is declared you ... | NVM Found on gatherer, you can in fact activate the ability before blockers are declared and hit a random attacking creature. | 2 |
Can spells/abilities with "before attackers/defenders are declared" be cast/activated say in the pre-combat main phase?
Played a game a few weeks ago with \[\[Lady Sun\]\] and \[\[Concordant Crossroads\]\], with enough mana to cast Lady Sun a couple of times. People said I could only do it once because I didn't have fl... | If it doesn't say "only during combat" it's not only during combat. Clear as day. Compare [[Cauldron Dance]] or [[Chaotic Strike]] or [[Gorilla War Cry]] and so on. | 1 |
Mizzix's mastery and targets
Say I have Mizzix's mastery in hand and lightning bolt and fork in the graveyard. If I overload mastery, can I target bolt with fork? | Yes.
You create the copies of the cards in exile and then cast them from there. You do this in whatever order you like so you can cast the copy of Bolt and then the copy of Fork targeting the copy of Bolt.
- 04/11/2015 If Mizzix’s Mastery exiled multiple cards, you may cast the copies in any order. The last copy you c... | 1 |
Ninjutsu - first strike interaction
Say I have an \[\[Archetype of Courage\]\] and \[\[Thief of Sanity\]\] on the battlefield, and a \[\[Ninja of the Deep Hours\]\] in my hand. If I attack with Thief of Sanity and let it deal damage during the first damage step, can I then use ninjutsu to replace it with Ninja of the D... | Huh, cool, I never thought of that.
Yeah, it works.
510.4. If at least one attacking or blocking creature has first strike (see rule 702.7) or double strike (see rule 702.4) as the combat damage step begins, the only creatures that assign combat damage in that step are those with first strike or double strike. After th... | 3 |
If a player 'casts' a spell is that spell still considered to be in that players hand until it resolves?
Example:
Player one: attempts to cast an annoying dragon
Can player two then cast a card like Tsabo's Decree to force the player to discard the dragon before it gets cast? | Nope... the first things that happens when you start casting a spell is it moves from where it was to the stack. So it's not in your hand anymore.
Then you make choices, choose targets, distribute things, check legality, determine costs, generate mana to pay those costs, then finally pay those costs. And now you're fin... | 3 |
Vraska
Planeswalker has an ability that adds power to creatures a player controls (+2 loyalty). If the the player does not currently control any creatures, can they activate the ability? | Sure.
You only need to have a creature if it says the word "target". You can't activate an ability or cast a spell with targets without having legal targets to target. (Like Ajani Vengeant)
Note: There are some like Ajani Steadfast that say "up to 1 target", in which case you can choose 0, and don't need anything to ta... | 2 |
Emmara, Sould of the Accord - Using to Convoke / Crew?
Alright, this seems like a stupid question but I cant figure it out on my own.
Emmara, Sould of the Accord creates a token once she gets tapped. Now, if I tap her to crew a vehicle, I get a token, which I can use to continue crewing the same vehicle. This makese se... | if I tap her to crew a vehicle, I get a token, which I can use to continue crewing the same vehicle.
No, actually you can't.
does the token-creation resolves before or after I cast the convoke spell?
After, just like it resolves after you complete the crewing activation.
can I also use the created token for my c... | 3 |
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