MTG Salvation

From the Cards Rulings:

6/8/2016 A player’s “opening hand” is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans and “scryed” if applicable. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player’s opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins.

So he HAD to keep his hand before you can put the Leyline in play.

0/10 Missing Creature Type 'Rigger', No Buff from Steamflogger Boss.

I assume that by "threat" you mean menace. I assume that by "raising" a creature you mean destroying a creature.

With these assumptions, the remaining blocking creature would still be blocking. Effects that restrict blocking (such as menace [C.R. 702.110b]) are relevant only at the moment blockers are declared as the declare blockers step begins (C.R. 509.1b-c), and not at any other time. Thus, removing one of the blocking creatures from the battlefield in this case would not remove the other from combat (C.R. 506.4a).

No, but if you target the Scion to have the -1/-1 placed on it with something like Plague Belcher you can sacrifice it in response to you targeting it.

No. You lose 3 life unless you discard or sacrifice. If you don't have a card, you can't discard one.

Bolas is like a loan shark - he says I'm going to break your knee-caps unless you pay me $1,000. If you offer him $0, he still breaks your knee-caps.

1)"You" always refers to the controller of an object (or the owner if it has no controller), meaning the player. "Damage to you" therefore is only damage to the player, not to any of his/her creatures or planeswalkers.

2) Damage to creatures does not trigger Hixus's ability. However, the usual order is this: combat damage happens, then state based actions clean up the game like destroying lethally damaged creatures and players with 0 or less life losing the game, then triggered ability waiting to go on the stack go on the stack. So if lethal combat damage was dealt to a creature and combat damage was dealt to the controller of Hixus, the creature is destroyed before Hixus's trigger makes it to the stack.

3) Hixus can exile blocking creatures only if they a) survived the combat damage, and b) somehow dealt damage to the defending player (like by having combat damage redirected). Each creature that deal combat damage to the player will get its own Hixus trigger and be exiled when it resolves.

3a) All combat damage is dealt simultaneously, and the creatures don't pull their punches. They all deal combat damage equal to their power, even if that means, that a mere 1/1 blocker (made able to block multiple creatures) is hit by three 100/100 creatures for a total of 300 damage. Hixus will not trigger for any of those because neither did combat damage to the player.

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And they all involve replacement effects.

No, there are other ways. I'll leave that to you to think about.

Other than the ruling that is in dispute in this very thread, can you provide any example of a creature (1) being destroyed, (2) not being put in the graveyard, with (3) no replacement effects getting involved? "You figure it out" won't cut it, I'm afraid.

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You would need something like Stifle or Disallow in order to prevent it.

Important to note here, that you have to cast Stifle-like effects, when the trigger of Champion is on the stack, meaning, you can't wait to see, which creature your opponent wants to put.

Does Champion on Ronas cast? No he puts into play.

Does cansel counter abilaties? No it vounters spells.

Does Champion on Ronas cast? No he puts into play.