MTG Salvation

Okay thank you both, we played it the wrong way then and now I feel pretty bad since that was a pretty game ending turn.

In a 3v3 emperor game with the emps having range of influence 2, and generals having RoI 1:

Seating: (2 and B are emps)

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Emperor 2 casts Unsummon targetting A's Deathcult Rogue. Can A Negate the unsummon?

I feel like the answer is no, because Emperor 2 is outside the RoI of General A, but I'm not sure.

I tap Rubinia Soulsinger to take control of my opponent's creature.

In respose, he casts Turn to frog

Does this prevent the control? Or Does the control still go through since I still control Rubinia and her ability was already activated?

Precursor Golem Causes a new uncanny speed to be created and targetted on each other golem.

So yes.

By targetting the agent his trigger goes on the stack, and by "eating" so to speak the lightning strike he won't be killed, so this works as you would want.

With Cipher you cast the copy and are allowed to exile it to the nivmagus.

from Open the Vaults Gatherer page:

An Aura put onto the battlefield this way can't enchant an artifact or enchantment that's also being put onto the battlefield with Open the Vaults.

So that would be a negatory.

Edit:

and from the Phantasmal Image's gatherer page:

If Phantasmal Image somehow enters the battlefield at the same time as another creature, Phantasmal Image can't become a copy of that creature. You may only choose a creature that's already on the battlefield.

I cast silence in response to the last counter being removed from a suspended card like rift bolt, does this prevent the suspended card being cast and therefore leaving it exiled forever?

I'm fairly certain this is the way it would work (so long as silence was cast in response to the remove counter trigger) but wanted to double-check.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/therosmechanics#c

If the target creature leaves the battlefield after you cast a card with bestow as an Aura but before the spell resolves, the Aura spell will resolve as an enchantment creature rather than being countered like a normal Aura spell. If the target creature is still on the battlefield when the Aura spell resolves, it resolves as an Aura enchanting that creature.

I imagine Wizard's official mechanics article answers this question thoroughly, and we'll see how it's added into the comp. rules in a week or two.

http://media-dominaria.cursecdn.com/attachments/112/61/635201278235747171.jpg

(Nighthowler)

Ought to be castable using bestow under gaddock, based on my understanding.

Cavern Lampad (http://media-dominaria.cursecdn.com/attachments/111/923/635201278062506443.jpg) however would not.

Strictly speaking with rules the CMC is the number printed on the top-right of the card, not whatever you paid to cast it.

But take everything about spoiled cards with a grain of salt until the FAQ is released.

Addendum:

Mechanics preview:

If you cast a bestow card for its bestow cost, it's never a creature spell. Instead, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature, so you have to target a creature to cast it. If that creature has a heroic ability, this will trigger it, just as any other Aura spell would.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/therosmechanics

Okay, I see. I was confused because of the different interaction with sacrificing etc. (And I understood exiling another's creature it's just that this had a similar wording to forced sacrifice.)

Thanks everyone.

(And now I have a sadness, because that would have been fun in EDH)

Are you sure? I would understand if it gave the creature token "Exile this angel at the end of combat" But it simply instructs you to do so (differing from a card like say Arc Runner that has the instruction on the creature itself), so that throws me off a bit.

Geist of Saint Traft attacks, then I give someone else the created angel by Zedruu the Greathearted. My understanding is that I have to be the one who exiles the angel correct?

So that angel would stick around chilling out since I cannot exile someone else's creature?

Or does Geist's delayed Exiling work differently?

You are of course free to represent copies of a spell on the stack with something (though there is no requirement to do so), so long as everyone in the game understands.

Most of the time with copying spells both players can understand the game state well enough without needing to do so, and the only requirement is that the game state is clear to all players.

My understanding of the ruling:

Commander Damage is specific to each Commander/Player pairing, not combined across all Commander.

Is that Commander/Player Pairings are like : Naricas's Karona, Bob's Rafiq etc. So if bob and Narica are both running say Rafig, taking 20 damage from both of those individually will not kill you (from commander damage death), but it doesn't matter who controls Narica's Karona because it's still Narica's Karona dealing the damage.