With a Chromatic Lantern in play, Rakdos Carnarium gains the ability to tap for 1 of any color, it doesn't change the exiting ability. You can add either RB or a single mana of any color. You can not tap it for 2 of any color/combination.
The first involves Portal Mage. The question being say player a attacked with 3 creatures could you use it to instead make him attack his teammate? since they are two separate entities or because both players life totals are combined and you attack them like one entity you cannot.
In 2HG teams attack teams, players do not attack individual players. All players in the attacking team declare their attackers together, while all players in the defending team decide their blockers together. In 2 team 2HG game, Portal Mage can only change who/what is being attacked by the targeted creature, if the defending team controls a planeswalker. Otherwise, there is nothing to change as there is only one choice: the defending team. You cannot make an attacking creature attack the attacking team or any of their planeswalkers.
That is slightly incorrect. While it will often make little difference, each head is a separate entity.
All damage is dealt to the shared life total, blocking is shared between heads, but it matters where attacks are declared and where damage is dealt. i.e., declaring Kozilek, Butcher of Truth requires you to choose a head to trigger annihilator on (portal mage can't move the trigger, attacks are already declared). Stigma Lasher in 2HG will cause only one head to not gain life. There are many other examples that would care which head is attacked or dealt damage. Portal Mage can change which head of your opponents (or planeswalker they control) attacks are declared towards, but attacks must still be valid. Rezzahan is absolutely correct here, you can't have them attack their own walker, teammate, or teammate's walker.
For a practical example, if you have Cromat and Spirit of Resistance out, you would use Portal Mage to force your opponent's creature to attack you so that all damage would be prevented.
Rezzahan: That is wonderful description of how the layering and timestamps work!
@VegaTDM What you're trying to do is trip your opponent up on minutiae of extraordinarily precise phrasing.
Consider the case of:
Opponent: "I cast Esper Charm."
Me: "Targeting?"
Opponent: "Myself, of course."
Me: "Cool -- discard two cards."
Opponent: "WAaahhhhhhh?"
I've utilized precise wording to trip my opponent up and force the presumption that he's using either the "discard" or "destroy enchantment" mode of Esper Charm -- the draw isn't targeted. He's technically forced to discard two cards -- when he calls a judge and intent is discovered, however, many judges may opt to rule on intent. Especially when you explain how the determination was made. My local judge, for example, doesn't let tricky wording beat intent -- it would create a ridiculous environment. Some judges will let it slide, too, and force you to discard two cards!
However, the rules of the game are very precise and even "Out of Order Sequencing" will often stop you from doing your intended action. . Your wording of "I pass priority during my main phase, do you pass too?" is very clear. If I respond with "Before attacks, Path to Exile your dude." OoOS here would tend to mean "I accept your premise of leaving the mainphase and in the Before Combat step, I cast Path to Exile targeting your creature" and not "No, I path your dude before leaving the main phase."
There is not a good way to do what you're suggesting other than to, as Zauzich suggested, make playing the game a miserable back and forth of priority passing with combat steps and game phases manually advancing one at a time.
Here's your MTG fact of the day: You can't have a new set without someone complaining that it's the "worst set ever," "totally suck," or "is just a terrible set." This set looks flavorful, fun, and I look forward to playing it in limited. It's not perfect -- just like every other set.
My brother and I were talking about this the other day -- They've dropped hints about the "fourth sister" who was destroyed. What if she wasn't destroyed but was imprisoned and/or transformed? Maybe she's just breaking back out (or coming to terms with being bonded with a demon? Legendary Creature - Angel Demon) and is understandably angry and looking for some revenge. It's certainly possible!
Yeah, Pucatrade is awesome! My friends didn't need (or, really, have anywhere near enough either in value or that I even needed to trade for it) my extra Jace, the Mind Sculptor so I shipped it out on Puca. That got me, basically, $100 in trade credit with people all over the world. I wound up claiming most of a set of Swords (Fire and Ice, Light and Shadow, etc.) for EDH.
The same is true for all sorts of cards that I just don't have a use for. There's no one locally to trade with because 1) my good friends just don't need that many cards that I have (or the reverse) 2) local strangers are the value traders that insist everything be within a quarter value of an even trade or in their favor. My friends don't have either the supply or the demand and I don't want to deal with annoying strangers so I ship cards out on Puca when someone wants one. Once you have points for a card, it shows up at your door - like actual magic! And all the trades actually are even, at least as of the day of the trade.
And, since I'm trading on Puca, my want list is basically blank as long as I have points and I don't have need to carry a trade binder to events! Nothing I need? No need to bring trades!
Pre-ordered mine from my FLGS @ $125 (133 with tax). That was what he charged me for a set last year. I'll use everything from the decks, but mostly I mostly wanted the red deck -- I've had Mono-R PWs sketched out as a list since C14 was spoiled with PW commanders.
Sure. Enchanted Evening + Copy Enchantment, just off the top of my head. There are lots of ways to copy a planeswalker (anything to make them a creature, then all the creature clones work). There just haven't previously been any EASY ways to do it. They all require multiple specific cards. This... this is something different. I'm digging it -- I'll need a foil and one additional for every EDH deck I've got that runs blue.
No, no and no. Storm is a 10 on Maro's fabled "Storm scale." That means it's considered extremely unlikely that Wizards will ever bring it back, at least in a normal expert level expansion (see Flusterstorm). There won't be any storm cards created or brought back in Khans block and it's doubtful we'll see it again period.
No, you would not. The Eldrazi titans, like Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, have a "when you cast" trigger. Their ability is placed on the stack and resolved before the creature is on the battlefield. Clone enters the battlefield as a copy of a creature -- when you cast it it is not Ulamog. It only becomes Ulamog as it enters the battlefield and that is long after Clone has been "cast."
Clone will trigger "enters the battlefield" (Primeval Titan) and other "as ~ enters the battlefield" (Iona, Shield of Emeria)for anything you would choose to copy but it won't trigger any "when you cast" triggers such as the ones associated with the Eldrazi titans.
Awesome interaction from my local group's Tuesday game:
T3: Awakening Zone
T4: Dueling Grounds
T5: No Mercy
T6: Mycosynth Lattice
T7: Fist of the Suns (from spawn tokens), Divine Intervention
T8: Vedalken Orrery
T9: Game ends in a draw -- Though I could have flashed in a Warp World in response to the Divine Intervention trigger.
That is slightly incorrect. While it will often make little difference, each head is a separate entity.
All damage is dealt to the shared life total, blocking is shared between heads, but it matters where attacks are declared and where damage is dealt. i.e., declaring Kozilek, Butcher of Truth requires you to choose a head to trigger annihilator on (portal mage can't move the trigger, attacks are already declared). Stigma Lasher in 2HG will cause only one head to not gain life. There are many other examples that would care which head is attacked or dealt damage. Portal Mage can change which head of your opponents (or planeswalker they control) attacks are declared towards, but attacks must still be valid. Rezzahan is absolutely correct here, you can't have them attack their own walker, teammate, or teammate's walker.
For a practical example, if you have Cromat and Spirit of Resistance out, you would use Portal Mage to force your opponent's creature to attack you so that all damage would be prevented.
Rezzahan: That is wonderful description of how the layering and timestamps work!
Consider the case of:
Opponent: "I cast Esper Charm."
Me: "Targeting?"
Opponent: "Myself, of course."
Me: "Cool -- discard two cards."
Opponent: "WAaahhhhhhh?"
I've utilized precise wording to trip my opponent up and force the presumption that he's using either the "discard" or "destroy enchantment" mode of Esper Charm -- the draw isn't targeted. He's technically forced to discard two cards -- when he calls a judge and intent is discovered, however, many judges may opt to rule on intent. Especially when you explain how the determination was made. My local judge, for example, doesn't let tricky wording beat intent -- it would create a ridiculous environment. Some judges will let it slide, too, and force you to discard two cards!
However, the rules of the game are very precise and even "Out of Order Sequencing" will often stop you from doing your intended action. . Your wording of "I pass priority during my main phase, do you pass too?" is very clear. If I respond with "Before attacks, Path to Exile your dude." OoOS here would tend to mean "I accept your premise of leaving the mainphase and in the Before Combat step, I cast Path to Exile targeting your creature" and not "No, I path your dude before leaving the main phase."
There is not a good way to do what you're suggesting other than to, as Zauzich suggested, make playing the game a miserable back and forth of priority passing with combat steps and game phases manually advancing one at a time.
The same is true for all sorts of cards that I just don't have a use for. There's no one locally to trade with because 1) my good friends just don't need that many cards that I have (or the reverse) 2) local strangers are the value traders that insist everything be within a quarter value of an even trade or in their favor. My friends don't have either the supply or the demand and I don't want to deal with annoying strangers so I ship cards out on Puca when someone wants one. Once you have points for a card, it shows up at your door - like actual magic! And all the trades actually are even, at least as of the day of the trade.
And, since I'm trading on Puca, my want list is basically blank as long as I have points and I don't have need to carry a trade binder to events! Nothing I need? No need to bring trades!
Please visit the above link for the explanation, but the summary is:
Braids, Cabal Minion is banned
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is banned
Erayo, Soratami Ascendent is banned
Kokusho, the Evening Star is unbanned
Metalworker is unbanned
Sure. Enchanted Evening + Copy Enchantment, just off the top of my head. There are lots of ways to copy a planeswalker (anything to make them a creature, then all the creature clones work). There just haven't previously been any EASY ways to do it. They all require multiple specific cards. This... this is something different. I'm digging it -- I'll need a foil and one additional for every EDH deck I've got that runs blue.
Clone will trigger "enters the battlefield" (Primeval Titan) and other "as ~ enters the battlefield" (Iona, Shield of Emeria)for anything you would choose to copy but it won't trigger any "when you cast" triggers such as the ones associated with the Eldrazi titans.