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Jun 11, 2018willdice posted a message on Ravnica: The Living GuildpactThe M19 planeswalkers are Ajani, Tezzeret, Liliana, Sarkhan and Vivien. Of those, Tezzeret and Liliana are aligned with Bolas, while Sarkhan and Vivien have reasons to oppose him, so my guess is Ajani is recruiting them.Posted in: Articles
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The land gets destroyed by Blight before Balance can resolve.
However, Balance only counts the number of lands each player controls when it resolves. So it can't see the land Blight destroyed, and in any scenario you have to sacrifice ones less land than you would if the land hadn't be destroyed by Blight anyway.
Mother's controller can tap her to give protection from white to Mother herself. So it would only work if Mother of Runes is already tapped, or under summoning sickness.
Notice the part about "last known information" is for "a specific object" (like "the sacrificed creature's power" in Fling). General information like "the number of artifacts and enchantments" or even "the greatest power among creatures" doesn't use LKI, and looks just at the present.
Yes, just like it does with any other "tutor" effect.
The cards found in the search will be exiled rather than be put wherever the spell or ability tells the opponent to put them after finding them. Any other effects the spell or ability has will still apply. If such an effect refers to the found cards, it can see them in exile.
(2020-11-10)
Also, notice how Enforcer's ability is written. She doesn't constantly has Double Strike as long as her controller has more life; it is an ability that triggers only as the combat phase begins (and if the condition is true), with Enforcer gaining Double Strike from that moment until that turns ends. So once she has gained Double Strike she retains it even if her controller loses too much life to still be with more - or even if she changes control.
But as this happens during combat, and loyalty abilities are sorcery speed, you can't use Dihada to get control of Enforcer after she has gained Double Strike, and still attack with her that same combat.
If you had an instant speed steal effect, such as Act of Aggression, you could do it this way: at the beginning of combat on your turn, Enforcer's ability triggers. When this ability resolves, Enforcer gains Double Strike until end of turn. You now cast Act of Aggression, taking control of Enforcer. She still has Double Strike, so you can attack with her.
So you have its End Step trigger, and then sacrifice it still in the same End Step, either in response to the trigger or after it has resolved.
610.4. Some one-shot effects cause a permanent to phase out "until" a specified event occurs. A second one-shot effect is created immediately after the specified event. This second one-shot effect causes the permanent to phase in.
610.4c. If a resolving triggered ability creates the initial one-shot effect that causes the permanent to phase out, and the specified event has already occurred before that one-shot effect would occur but after that ability triggered, the permanent doesn't phase out.
You are not casting the creature, just moving it from the graveyard to the battlefield (or to your hand). You can't choose an alternate casting cost such as Evoke if you're not casting the creature.
Also, a card's mana value (old "converted mana cost") is based on its mana cost on the top right corner. Meren sees Shriekmaw as a creature card with mana value/converted mana cost of 5, always.
"It's in one sentence" is not relevant. If you want a rule of thumb, use this: one verb = one action. Even if they are on the same line or sentence or phrase, they are separated actions.
Giant's ability wants to do the following actions, in order: search; then put; then attach; then shuffle. Opposition Agent exiles the cards that is found during the "search" action, preventing the "put on the battlefield" action. The "attach" action also becomes impossible. Then, the player performs the "shuffle" action.
The cards found in the search will be exiled rather than be put wherever the spell or ability tells the opponent to put them after finding them. Any other effects the spell or ability has will still apply. If such an effect refers to the found cards, it can see them in exile.
(2020-11-10)
So yes, it affects "whenever you attack" abilities. You attacking with a creature caused Overwhelming Instinct to trigger, so Wulfgar's static ability (his is not an "effect trigger") causes Instinct's ability to trigger twice.
You don't choose a land beforehand for Crack the Earth; you choose and sacrifice one land you have when Crack the Earth resolves. You don't have a window of time between choosing a land to sacrifice, and actually sacrificing it.
So you either sacrifice Ghost Quarter for Crack the Earth and not for its ability; or you use Quarter's ability in response, and end up having to sacrifice some other land to Crack the Earth.
We don't yet have the full rules that explain how a d20 ability such as The Deck's works. My informed guess is that it's all a single activated ability, so it would work with Mairsil normally.