No active manipulation is necessary (or, really, possible) here. You don't choose a target for the Wall's ETB ability until it is put on the stack, which doesn't happen until the Wave finishes resolving. Since the second Wave is put into the graveyard as part of the first Wave resolving (indeed, so is the first Wave), it will be a valid target for the Wall's ability.
No, for the same reason that you don't get additional copies from each copy created by storm: copies aren't cast. Since your opponent isn't casting his copy of Empty the Warrens, his copy's storm ability won't trigger and we won't get any further copies.
When you first started your post, you said your opponent had no cards in hand, but he gets one out of no where about half way.
The opponent never has a card in this scenario. He's attacking with a dragon and activates the dragon's ability to increase its power.
If he pumped the Dragon to 16/4 (I think that's where it ended up) before the image resolved, it would become a 4/16. However, could wait for the Image to resolve, then re-pump, again back to the power side.
No. The fact that it doesn't work that way is precisely the point of contention—p/t-switching effects apply after all other p/t-modifying effects, regardless of the order in which they are created. This means that if you hit a 1/3 creature with Twisted Image, making it a 3/1, and then, after the Image resolves, hit it with Fists of the Anvil, it will be a 3/4 and not a 7/1.
No, because the sacrifice doesn't go "on the stack". Costs for spells or abilities must be paid in full as part of casting the spell or activating the ability. This means that you will have to actually sacrifice the creature as part of activating Necrosavant's ability, so it won't be around afterwards to be sacrificed for Spawning Pit's ability.
Gatherer is never* wrong, because it is the definition of what cards do.
Note that he's talking about a Ruling in Gatherer rather than the Oracle text, and those certainly can be wrong despite my best efforts to the contrary. For an immediate example, this ruling has a typo in it.
No. This is a single effect that grants +1/+1 to a set of creatures defined by matching at least one of the specified characteristics. Zombie Skeletons match both characteristics, but they are still only in the set once so the effect still only gives +1/+1.
This is stated in the Gatherer Rulings at the bottom of the Gatherer Window:
10/1/2008 A creature that's both a Skeleton and a Zombie will get the bonus only once.
A creature with Shroud cannot be targeted, but Infect doesn't target anything so Shroud won't interact with it at all. If a creature with Infect deals damage to a creature with Shroud, then the creature with Shroud will get -1/-1 counters instead of regular damage.
1) You cannot activate the equip ability during the Combat Phase, because equip abilities can only be activated any time you could cast a sorcery (i.e., during your Main Phase while the stack is empty).
2) Removing the Blade from a creature will have no effect on any counters that creature may have, including counters that it was given by the Blade's ability; they will remain on the creature.
Yes. Once the Sculptor's ability resolves, the creature stops being a creature. As such, it can no longer legally be enchanted by Animate Dead. Thus, as a State-Based Action, Animate Dead will be put into its owner's graveyard. Since it has left the battlefield, the creature's (now enchantment's) controller will be forced to sacrifice it.
If so, I can choose 4 creatures from my library, put them into my hand, then play them.
Not in that order. First the copy will resolve, letting you search for two cards and then put two cards onto the battlefield, then the original spell will resolve and you will repeat that process.
1. Do the 18 tokens count for regal force? Since the Avenger and token came in before Regal force, I assume yes.
Yes. The tokens are created by the Avenger's ability, which will resolve before the original Tooth and Nail, so they will be on the battlefield by the time the Regal Force enters the battlefield.
2. Can I eternal witness, my first copy of tooth and nail?
Yes. Tooth and Nail is put into the graveyard immediately after resolving, just before the Witness's ability is put on the stack. Then, once the ability is on the stack, you can choose the Tooth and Nail card as the target.
If someone plays an autumn’s veil in response to a counterspell of mine, does the veil resolve first and cause my counterspell to fizzle?
It resolves first, but your counterspell doesn't fizzle; it will simply fail to counter whatever spell you had targeted. If it has some other effect that doesn't depend on the spell being countered (such as on Dream Fracture), then that effect will still occur.
Can I use into the roil on my opponet’s JtMS in response to him brainstorming?
Yes. Jace's ability goes on the stack, then you can cast Into the Roil. Note that this won't stop the ability from resolving.
Can I unequip an equipment to another creature in response to an opponent exiling the creature it’s currently equipped to?
Equip abilities can usually only be activated any time you could cast a sorcery, which means the stack must be empty and it must be your mainphase. In particular, you can't activate an equip ability while another spell or ability is on the stack.
No. In order to activate the ability you must exile ten cards from the top of your library. If you don't have enough cards to pay this cost, then you can't activate the ability.
Fairly simple: you have an emotional attachment to your mother, but not a random stranger.
But that's not the real reason, which is that those emotional ties to your mother bring with them (or arise from) familiarity with your mother. You are less likely to believe anything new that you didn't know about your mother than you are to believe such a thing about a stranger because you know your mother and therefore have prior information regarding her personality. If supposed new information contradicts that prior knowledge then you are right to ask for stronger proof.
For something to come from nothing defies the laws of nature.
1) No one knows the "laws of nature" in anything resembling a complete form, so to state categorically that something defies them is misleading at best. The most we can say is that some event isn't consistent with the current models we use for those laws.
2) The models we have explain and apply to events within the universe; they say nothing (for the most part) about the nature of the universe as a whole. Specifically, conservation laws (which is what you're claiming gets violated when something is created from nothing) arise from symmetries in the models we use to describe interactions within the universe, but those models do assume that there is some sort of background universe in which the events take place (though they may allow for some generality in the form of that background)—they are inapplicable when the interaction under consideration is the formation of the universe itself.
The opponent never has a card in this scenario. He's attacking with a dragon and activates the dragon's ability to increase its power.
No. The fact that it doesn't work that way is precisely the point of contention—p/t-switching effects apply after all other p/t-modifying effects, regardless of the order in which they are created. This means that if you hit a 1/3 creature with Twisted Image, making it a 3/1, and then, after the Image resolves, hit it with Fists of the Anvil, it will be a 3/4 and not a 7/1.
No. Dissipation Field only triggers when a permanent deals damage to you.
This is stated in the Gatherer Rulings at the bottom of the Gatherer Window:
10/1/2008 A creature that's both a Skeleton and a Zombie will get the bonus only once.
2) Removing the Blade from a creature will have no effect on any counters that creature may have, including counters that it was given by the Blade's ability; they will remain on the creature.
Not in that order. First the copy will resolve, letting you search for two cards and then put two cards onto the battlefield, then the original spell will resolve and you will repeat that process.
Yes. The tokens are created by the Avenger's ability, which will resolve before the original Tooth and Nail, so they will be on the battlefield by the time the Regal Force enters the battlefield.
Yes. Tooth and Nail is put into the graveyard immediately after resolving, just before the Witness's ability is put on the stack. Then, once the ability is on the stack, you can choose the Tooth and Nail card as the target.
Yes. Jace's ability goes on the stack, then you can cast Into the Roil. Note that this won't stop the ability from resolving.
Equip abilities can usually only be activated any time you could cast a sorcery, which means the stack must be empty and it must be your mainphase. In particular, you can't activate an equip ability while another spell or ability is on the stack.
1) No one knows the "laws of nature" in anything resembling a complete form, so to state categorically that something defies them is misleading at best. The most we can say is that some event isn't consistent with the current models we use for those laws.
2) The models we have explain and apply to events within the universe; they say nothing (for the most part) about the nature of the universe as a whole. Specifically, conservation laws (which is what you're claiming gets violated when something is created from nothing) arise from symmetries in the models we use to describe interactions within the universe, but those models do assume that there is some sort of background universe in which the events take place (though they may allow for some generality in the form of that background)—they are inapplicable when the interaction under consideration is the formation of the universe itself.