If you buy a booster pack of $set, the business arrangement you are spending money to fulfill is that you will get 10 commons from $set, 3 uncommons from $set, 1 rare or mythic from $set, 1 basic land from $set, and 1 marketing card or token from $set, with a chance that one of the commons will be replaced by a foil of any rarity. (Some sets change the formula a bit, such as sets with DFCs, or Dragon's Maze replacing the basic with a nonbasic, but it's still consistent within the set.)Quote from FourDogsInAHorseSuit »If I buy a sealed booster pack I have a reasonable expectation that it might contain a certain card or type of card (foils, mythics, Jace, whatever). If you intentionally remove all the packs that have that card and sell me the remainder without telling me then your willful deception of the booster's contents constitutes fraud.
If the store were opening the packs, taking out the rares, and re-sealing them before selling to you, I would agree with you and call that fraud. But that's not the case with box mapping; you're still getting exactly what you're paying for.
Fraud has a specific legal meaning, and you should not accuse someone of fraud when that's not what's occurring. I absolutely agree that you shouldn't buy from a store that maps their boxes and takes out the packs with the good rares, but I don't agree that you should accuse them of fraud.
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It is only going to be in your graveyard after being cast if your opponent counters it.
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Only if we disbelieve the story that the person who posted the sheet purchased it from someone else and then put it on line for all to see. Otherwise all WOTC have is details of where and when it was printed. And with out the co-operation of the individual who posted it that is all they are going to have. Meaning that unless they are willing to transport there printing away from the facility or get the printing company to disipline an entire shift of people who might not have been working when the sheet actually left the facility there is still a gaping hole in their supply chain waiting for something else to drop out of and for someone else to get hold of and be put online. A hole WOTC will still no nothing about
Stop dealing in absolutes when you can't know what WOTC is planning or if you do stop releasing information that should not be released into the wild. The bottom line is none of us know what is going to happen and whilst a heavy sentance is possible, going off history and how WOTC have acted in similar matters in the past, namely the New Phyrexia leak and Rancorred elf, it is far more likely that WOTC is going to attempt to take this through the civil courts first with the hope of co-operation and a very tight NDA so they can close the hole, with criminal charges being the last resort.
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Combat damage no longer uses the stack. It is dealt and assigned as a single game action at the start of each combat damage step. You can't use Mog fanatic to kill an x/2 any more, and if you want to regenerate a creature you have to activate the ability in the declare blockers step. Other than that the Stack is the same as it was. Spells and abilites go on there and resolve in LIFO order.
There have been a number of terminology changes for zones and actions.
Zones:
In play is now the battlefield
Removed from the Game is now the Exile zone any thing that refered to Remove from the game now says it exiles it.
Actions
You play lands, Cast spells and activate abilities. Functionally this doesnn't make much difference it just clears up some of the language used.
The legendary supertype only cares about permanents that you control, both players can control a Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor. For Planeswalkers there is a similar rule that cares about the subtype where there legendary rule still cares about the name.
Mana burn does not exist any more.
That should be the major ones.
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Electrolyze as cast here needs to seperate targets so both the player and the spellskite will be dealt damage
Both modes can be changed to the spellskite so the player won't be dealt any damage
go for the throat can't target an artifact creature so when the ability on spellskite comes to resolve it won't do anything and the original target will be destroyed
Since the spellskite is already targetted by the spell your opponent can't redirect the spell away from any of the other 4 artifacts. All 5 will be destroyed.
Disenchant is not a modal spell so the spellskite will remain a legal target. Its going to be destroyed.
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Defender on stops a creature from being declared as a an attacker. It does not stop it from dealing damage. You can block any number of creatures and line them up to receive damage in the order you chose. The first one in line will be dealt 1 point of damage and most likely kill it. At the same time your opponents attacking creatures will deal damage as he assigned it most likely destroying your wall.
The only difference that first strike does is create an extra combat damage step where creatures with first strike and double strike deal damage before creatures with out first strike or double strike.
In this case it would mean that 2 creatures would each be dealt 1 point of damage and be destroyed in the first strike combat damage step so won't be arround to deal damage in the normal combat damage step.
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So you don't want to write fan fiction then. You just want to write fiction using names from MTG regardless of where they show up.
Again if you want to write coherent fan fiction you can not do this. I am going to give you the same advice I give to people who turn up here proposing assorted rules changes. Don't bother unless you are willing to do the grond work. And for writing fan fiction that is learning what the current story is and working out where and what you slip in to the current storyline with out it not making sense.
Yes the same planet but in vastly different areas and at different times. The current History of Dominaria is of about similar length to that of civilised history on our rock. If you don't know what you are doing it would very easy to make very large errors like having Confucius and Napoleon wandering around the same place at the same time with out any form of time travel.
No you don't. And you won't until you ditch the I don't want spoilers/storyline information schtick you are displaying. Do your ground work first then start writing the fiction it will be a lot better in the end.
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For others like Mirrodin and Zendikar whilst we have and idea of what the whole plane looks like the story and the cards only concentrate on a couple of areas and the same time period. Other areas and times are left for when/if they return to the plane.
As to the physical lay out of the planes it depends on what Storyline needs it to be.
Speficially for Dominaria all the action takes place on a planet that bares the name Dominaria all the blocks that take place there all take place on that planet just at various different times or in different places. For an idea of its history check out the Wiki article for it here.
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Nope. New Bolts most of which completely outclass the one true bolt to an almost laughable extent. If some those got printed there would be no point in using the original lightning bolt which very eloquantly proves the point that Lord Soth has been making.
If the baseline spells like terror, wrath of god and lightning bolt are to efficient any new version of them needs to do something rather shiny for the new cards to get a look in. It is far better to have a lower base line so variants don't have to be so rediculous yet still provide a reason to use them instead of the baseline version of the spell.