I have a card called ‘Beacon Bolt’. I was wondering three things:
1. When casting this from the graveyard (as a jump-start) do you count it as being in the graveyard?
2. Do ‘fused’ cards (cards with two separate parts) count as one or two for the counting process?
3. Do defeated creature tokens count towards cards that add X/X counters based on creatures in your graveyard?
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I have a card called ‘Beacon Bolt’. I was wondering three things:
1. When casting this from the graveyard (as a jump-start) do you count it as being in the graveyard?
No. You have to put Beacon Bolt onto the stack before you count up the instants and sorceries in the graveyard. By the time you do that, Beacon has already left the graveyard and can not count itself.
2. Do ‘fused’ cards (cards with two separate parts) count as one or two for the counting process?
Beacon Bolt’s ability counts cards of a specific type(s), instants and sorceries, not the number of types a specific card has. So even if a split card has both sides as Sorcery, you only count the card once. Edit: Removed unrelated junk because I misunderstood the question
3. Do defeated creature tokens count towards cards that add X/X counters based on creatures in your graveyard?
No. When a token is removed from the battlefield then they cease to exist once they change zones and after applicable triggers as per rule 111.7. By the time you’ll be able to cast any card that cares about creatures in the graveyard, those tokens will already be gone.
I have a card called ‘Beacon Bolt’. I was wondering three things:
1. When casting this from the graveyard (as a jump-start) do you count it as being in the graveyard?
No, because it is on the Stack.
The number is determined only when Beacon Bolt starts resolving. At this point it is a spell on the Stack zone.
2. Do ‘fused’ cards (cards with two separate parts) count as one or two for the counting process?
They are called "split card". A split card is still only one card, not two.
Notice Beacon Bolt reads "number of instant and sorcery cards". It counts the number of cards that are sorceries or instants, not the number of times the words "instant" and "sorcery" appear on them.
3. Do defeated creature tokens count towards cards that add X/X counters based on creatures in your graveyard?
Any and all such cards will count only creature cards on the graveyard. Tokens are not considered cards (even if you use "cards" to represent them, they don't count as actual cards for the rules).
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1. When casting this from the graveyard (as a jump-start) do you count it as being in the graveyard?
2. Do ‘fused’ cards (cards with two separate parts) count as one or two for the counting process?
3. Do defeated creature tokens count towards cards that add X/X counters based on creatures in your graveyard?
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No. You have to put Beacon Bolt onto the stack before you count up the instants and sorceries in the graveyard. By the time you do that, Beacon has already left the graveyard and can not count itself.
Beacon Bolt’s ability counts cards of a specific type(s), instants and sorceries, not the number of types a specific card has. So even if a split card has both sides as Sorcery, you only count the card once. Edit: Removed unrelated junk because I misunderstood the question
No. When a token is removed from the battlefield then they cease to exist once they change zones and after applicable triggers as per rule 111.7. By the time you’ll be able to cast any card that cares about creatures in the graveyard, those tokens will already be gone.
No, because it is on the Stack.
The number is determined only when Beacon Bolt starts resolving. At this point it is a spell on the Stack zone.
They are called "split card". A split card is still only one card, not two.
Notice Beacon Bolt reads "number of instant and sorcery cards". It counts the number of cards that are sorceries or instants, not the number of times the words "instant" and "sorcery" appear on them.
Any and all such cards will count only creature cards on the graveyard. Tokens are not considered cards (even if you use "cards" to represent them, they don't count as actual cards for the rules).