For the annoying opponent who wants a reason beyond the rules, it would enable cheating. For example, if you stack your deck with good cards on top and your opponent cuts it without shuffling, you can cut it back to the intended state.
Suppose an instant or sorcery with Buyback (e.g. Capsize) is in my graveyard and it gains Flashback (e.g. Snapcaster Mage). If I cast it from the graveyard for the flashback cost and I pay the buyback cost, does it go into my hand or into exile when it resolves?
From what I see in the Comprehensive Rules, it seems I can choose: "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack" and "If the buyback cost was paid, put this spell into its owner’s hand instead of into that player’s graveyard as it resolves" (CR §702.33 and §702.26 respectively) sound like they both replace the normal zone change from stack to graveyard.
According to §614.15 "self-replacement" effects take precedence over ordinary replacement effects, but these two replacements should be of the same kind.
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Recommendation: don't assemble the wheels to allow staking them two or three high, as I've seen in a couple LGSs.
It would need to add or replace a color indicator before changing the color of mana symbols, and to specify that the "memorized" color indicator overrides color from mana symbols. Clunky to write, very unusual, and full of tricky cases (e.g. multiple effects, some possibly spiced up with Sleight of Mind).
Issuing one of the most complex erratas ever (and likely Comprehensive Rules modifications to support it) only to mess with devotion, in a color-asymmetric way, that involves a handful of unimportant cards in eternal formats only, is of course beyond unlikely.
You can remember it this way: you want the Circle of Flame trigger to deal damage to a frog, not an Obliterator; the opponent attacks with a non-flying Obliterator and when he does Circle of Flame triggers; your window of opportunity to cast (and resolve) Turn to Frog is therefore after the trigger is put on the stack and before it resolves.
PTQs as they exist now are important because they attract almost casual players, a large fraction of "pro" players, and everything in between, providing an ideal environment for a day of competitive play and effective card trading. A GP is a much larger commitment, 2-3 days and often in a distant location; a smaller tournament is only worth it for grinding value or for easy prizes. Open tournaments of 100-300 players are the "gathering" element of Magic: the Gathering, and this reform is simply leaving them to independent organizers.
A typical LGS is going to bleed regulars (who are going to play many more PTQs and an increased number of independent tournaments) without necessarily being able to organize its own mini-PTQ.
I personally think the right approach would have been increasing the number of Pro Tours, so that the increasing number of qualified people is divided into smaller tournaments.
This change is going to disintegrate ongoing LGS championships and lower their quality (since many potential regulars are going to be away to a nearby mini-PTQ, every single week of the year) and promote the non-WOTC large tournaments, like the IMT series in Italy: they are already filling the same social role of big regional tournaments as PTQs, and they are going to be the only important open tournaments with the exception of GPs.
Is there a couch, chair, lazy boy, ect. on which only your wife spends most of her time and no one else does? The bites could still be coming from bed bugs if that's the case.
On a related note: when did it start? Did your wife change her habits or came into contact with new or different objects? A change of smell (e.g. a different soap) can be enough to start attracting insects.
Unfortunately you can do the above in response to the opponent's tutor at the latest, not in response to playing the land (which doesn't involve the stack), and the opponent will then be able to play around your trick (e.g. by tutoring something else).
If the OP's idea of a party revolves around getting drunk together on cheap beer, he should make an effort to invite only very like-minded people, because mainstream beer tastes are aimed a bit higher.
The problem with cheap beer is that, unlike e.g. a hamburger at a barbecue, you know in advance it's bad; it doesn't deserve a chance, many people would rather not drink beer at all.
And of course choosing bad beer reflects badly on the party organizer, as either too cheap to spend a little more for decent beer or lacking the taste and/or hospitality sense to care for decent beer. I'd probably avoid complaining, firmly refuse to drink bad beer, and push for going to a bar or restaurant where I can order what I want next time; but rude people are an abundant commodity.
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From what I see in the Comprehensive Rules, it seems I can choose: "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack" and "If the buyback cost was paid, put this spell into its owner’s hand instead of into that player’s graveyard as it resolves" (CR §702.33 and §702.26 respectively) sound like they both replace the normal zone change from stack to graveyard.
According to §614.15 "self-replacement" effects take precedence over ordinary replacement effects, but these two replacements should be of the same kind.
Recommendation: don't assemble the wheels to allow staking them two or three high, as I've seen in a couple LGSs.
Issuing one of the most complex erratas ever (and likely Comprehensive Rules modifications to support it) only to mess with devotion, in a color-asymmetric way, that involves a handful of unimportant cards in eternal formats only, is of course beyond unlikely.
A typical LGS is going to bleed regulars (who are going to play many more PTQs and an increased number of independent tournaments) without necessarily being able to organize its own mini-PTQ.
This change is going to disintegrate ongoing LGS championships and lower their quality (since many potential regulars are going to be away to a nearby mini-PTQ, every single week of the year) and promote the non-WOTC large tournaments, like the IMT series in Italy: they are already filling the same social role of big regional tournaments as PTQs, and they are going to be the only important open tournaments with the exception of GPs.
On a related note: when did it start? Did your wife change her habits or came into contact with new or different objects? A change of smell (e.g. a different soap) can be enough to start attracting insects.
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Kormus Bell + Gather Specimens to steal Homeward Path (the opponent never controls it).
- Blood Moon to remove the ability.
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Kormus Bell + Curse of Death's Hold to kill off Homeward Path with a SBA before it can be activated.
- Having the opponent control Aggressive Mining (e.g. Quicken+Donate) to make playing lands impossible.
Unfortunately you can do the above in response to the opponent's tutor at the latest, not in response to playing the land (which doesn't involve the stack), and the opponent will then be able to play around your trick (e.g. by tutoring something else).The problem with cheap beer is that, unlike e.g. a hamburger at a barbecue, you know in advance it's bad; it doesn't deserve a chance, many people would rather not drink beer at all.
And of course choosing bad beer reflects badly on the party organizer, as either too cheap to spend a little more for decent beer or lacking the taste and/or hospitality sense to care for decent beer. I'd probably avoid complaining, firmly refuse to drink bad beer, and push for going to a bar or restaurant where I can order what I want next time; but rude people are an abundant commodity.