I just came across a true oddity. Judging by the lack of comments on it (0), it looks like it remains little-known among the Magic community. It's a puppet show musical called "Magic: the Gathering - The Musical." If you don't count the credits, it's 23 minutes and 49 seconds long. Considering the fact that it's six years old, I'm surprised I hadn't come across it yet. Is this familiar to everyone else here but me?
If I have both Thantis, the Warweaver and Koskun Falls on the battlefield, and it's an opponent's declare attackers phase in a multiplayer game, can that opponent tell me, "Oh, I want all my creatures to attack you, but I don't feel like paying the mana for it, so they don't have to attack at all"? If so, do I get to say, "You don't have to pay mana to attack anyone else, so your creatures must attack one of your other opponents besides me"?
. . . and, of course, which of us would be right?
The answer to this question will determine whether I add Koskun Falls to my upcoming Thantis, the Warweaver commander deck, so thanks to everyone in advance!
What cards can you simply not help but include in every Commander deck you build, by color? I'm not talking the usual ones like Sol Ring, or maybe Path to Exile for white, but cards you include that nobody else does, ones that aren't in the Commander's list on edhrec.com, or that nobody can (initially) figure out why you put it in. Cards that you either love to play with, or for which you've found some sort of little-known utility, or perhaps cards that you simply don't have a rational explanation to include. . . like maybe you like the art or something.
I'll start:
In every deck in which I run Black, I can't help including both Reaper from the Abyss and Black Market. The former is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated cards in the game. You can use its ability at the end of everyone's turn, not just yours, and things die so often in Commander that you'll typically get plenty of use out of it. Plus it gets around the "nonblack" restriction that you see so often on Instant and Sorcery kill spells. What's not to like? As for the latter, one well-placed spell like Wrath of God, even when played by someone else, will supercharge your mana. Sooner or later, if not dealt with, it becomes like a Black version of Omniscience.
In every deck in which I run Blue, I always seem to need Thassa, God of the Sea. Scrying every turn is never NOT useful, and very rarely is there not some card (often many more than one) in the deck that can be helped immensely by making it unblockable.
I have two decks in which I run the legal two of the original three Eldrazi titans (Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth). I can't help myself but include Mesmeric Orb in each deck along with them. I can't seem to explain the satisfaction I get from seeing people mill cards off the tops of their libraries, knowing that they won't get them back without some sort of recursion, but knowing that I'm essentially immune because those two titans will just shuffle my graveyard back into my library for me as many times as I need them to.
So, let's inspire each other. What are your "auto-includes," and why?
My comment was #5, and peteroupc's edit was before I posted it. #3 is the one with your thanks to him.
Oh, okay. Sorry for the mistake.
I am not directly contradicting what he said: it is valid from a strict Comprehensive Rules point of view. As I said, if your event isn't sanctioned and thus isn't covered by the Magic Tournament Rules, you can bring his explanation to the organizers to convince them that by the rules, you should be allowed to do what you want, and you'd probably have a convincing argument. It's just that if they refuse to allow it, with the event not being sanctioned, you have no recourse.
That makes a lot of sense. I appreciate you posting that for me.
peteroupc and MadMageQc, a huge THANK YOU to the two of you!! I'll print out peteroupc's post, bring every Eldrazi card I own and leave it in my car, then the next time I get to use the ability I'll hope for the best but be cool with whatever the store owners determine should they disagree.
I've searched for this answer across the Internet, and I still have yet to find the absolute, ultimate, definitive ruling. Hopefully one or more of you good folks here will have it for me.
I play in a Commander event every Saturday that doesn't do the "10-card sideboard" thing. One of my decks' commanders is Maralen of the Mornsong, so obviously it's mono-black but has lots of colorless spells therein. I also run Spawnsire of Ulamog in the deck.
Now, if I use the Spawnsire's last ability--"20: Cast any number of Eldrazi cards you own from outside the game without paying their mana costs," What exactly does it mean? Does it mean:
I can cast every Eldrazi card I own, even those whose casting costs contain W, U, R, or G, even multiple copies of each?
I can cast any Eldrazi card I own, even those whose casting costs contain W, U, R, or G, but only one copy of each?
I can cast every Eldrazi card I own whose casting costs contain B or C only, even multiple copies of each?
I can cast any Eldrazi card I own whose casting costs contain B or C only, but only one copy of each?
Thanks in advance for any and all help you can give me.
It looks like I can use card tags within my haves/wants list to have the most recent versions of cards show up, but is there a way to switch the pop-up cards in my haves/wants list from bringing up the oldest versions by default to bringing up the newest versions by default instead?
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- If I have Nikya of the Old Ways on the battlefield, and my devotion to Red is only one thanks to Nikya, may I cast Purphoros, God of the Forge?
- If I have both Braids, Conjurer Adept and the upcoming Errant, Street Artist on the battlefield, and I attempt to drop a Blightsteel Colossus on the battlefield with Braids's ability, do I get a copy of Blightsteel Colossus in addition to the original if I activate Errant's ability?
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I just came across a true oddity. Judging by the lack of comments on it (0), it looks like it remains little-known among the Magic community. It's a puppet show musical called "Magic: the Gathering - The Musical." If you don't count the credits, it's 23 minutes and 49 seconds long. Considering the fact that it's six years old, I'm surprised I hadn't come across it yet. Is this familiar to everyone else here but me?
Watch it at: https://vimeo.com/96148049
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If I have both Thantis, the Warweaver and Koskun Falls on the battlefield, and it's an opponent's declare attackers phase in a multiplayer game, can that opponent tell me, "Oh, I want all my creatures to attack you, but I don't feel like paying the mana for it, so they don't have to attack at all"? If so, do I get to say, "You don't have to pay mana to attack anyone else, so your creatures must attack one of your other opponents besides me"?
. . . and, of course, which of us would be right?
The answer to this question will determine whether I add Koskun Falls to my upcoming Thantis, the Warweaver commander deck, so thanks to everyone in advance!
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What cards can you simply not help but include in every Commander deck you build, by color? I'm not talking the usual ones like Sol Ring, or maybe Path to Exile for white, but cards you include that nobody else does, ones that aren't in the Commander's list on edhrec.com, or that nobody can (initially) figure out why you put it in. Cards that you either love to play with, or for which you've found some sort of little-known utility, or perhaps cards that you simply don't have a rational explanation to include. . . like maybe you like the art or something.
I'll start:
- In every deck in which I run Black, I can't help including both Reaper from the Abyss and Black Market. The former is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated cards in the game. You can use its ability at the end of everyone's turn, not just yours, and things die so often in Commander that you'll typically get plenty of use out of it. Plus it gets around the "nonblack" restriction that you see so often on Instant and Sorcery kill spells. What's not to like? As for the latter, one well-placed spell like Wrath of God, even when played by someone else, will supercharge your mana. Sooner or later, if not dealt with, it becomes like a Black version of Omniscience.
- In every deck in which I run Blue, I always seem to need Thassa, God of the Sea. Scrying every turn is never NOT useful, and very rarely is there not some card (often many more than one) in the deck that can be helped immensely by making it unblockable.
- I have two decks in which I run the legal two of the original three Eldrazi titans (Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth). I can't help myself but include Mesmeric Orb in each deck along with them. I can't seem to explain the satisfaction I get from seeing people mill cards off the tops of their libraries, knowing that they won't get them back without some sort of recursion, but knowing that I'm essentially immune because those two titans will just shuffle my graveyard back into my library for me as many times as I need them to.
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Oh, okay. Sorry for the mistake.
That makes a lot of sense. I appreciate you posting that for me.
peteroupc and MadMageQc, a huge THANK YOU to the two of you!! I'll print out peteroupc's post, bring every Eldrazi card I own and leave it in my car, then the next time I get to use the ability I'll hope for the best but be cool with whatever the store owners determine should they disagree.
CHEERS!!
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Thanks to the expansion to your last sentence, are you saying that MadMageQc is correct, or that he is incorrect?
I apologize if I'm being slow on the uptake.
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I've searched for this answer across the Internet, and I still have yet to find the absolute, ultimate, definitive ruling. Hopefully one or more of you good folks here will have it for me.
I play in a Commander event every Saturday that doesn't do the "10-card sideboard" thing. One of my decks' commanders is Maralen of the Mornsong, so obviously it's mono-black but has lots of colorless spells therein. I also run Spawnsire of Ulamog in the deck.
Now, if I use the Spawnsire's last ability--"20: Cast any number of Eldrazi cards you own from outside the game without paying their mana costs," What exactly does it mean? Does it mean:
- I can cast every Eldrazi card I own, even those whose casting costs contain W, U, R, or G, even multiple copies of each?
- I can cast any Eldrazi card I own, even those whose casting costs contain W, U, R, or G, but only one copy of each?
- I can cast every Eldrazi card I own whose casting costs contain B or C only, even multiple copies of each?
- I can cast any Eldrazi card I own whose casting costs contain B or C only, but only one copy of each?
Thanks in advance for any and all help you can give me.The Great Creature Token Project
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Here's my trade thread so you can mouseover the links therein:
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/trading-post/details/198-i-will-trade-for-any-of-your-standard-legal-rares
Thank you so much,
"Dr. Shades"
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