Recently, a friend and I were playing a friendly match with casual decks. His tribal treefolk versus my U/B Forced Fruition/Control. From the second turn i've already begun counterspelling any spells he attempts to play through my counterspell suite, as well as terrifying any creature that sticks.
By this point, it is the 8th turn, and I went first. I missed the latest two land drops, and I have two cards in hand, Forced Fruition, and Broken Ambitions. I pass the turn. He has not missed a land drop yet, so has 7 forests waiting to be used. He pays 3 for a Loxodon Warhammer, which I let through, leaving him 4 open lands, just enough for his normal win condition, Dauntless Dourbark. I watch him tap all 4 forests and grin as he lays down Daunty. In response, I play Broken Ambitions, X being 1. Here is the problem, he plays a land, because lands don't use the stack, and taps it for mana, which also doesn't use the stack. Uses the 1 mana to pay for the Broken Ambitions, and from here we decide to stop the game because neither of us know if that play was legal or not. After looking at the comprehensive rules we are still not satisfied with the ruling one way or the other, so we come to you, MTGSalvation, and thank you in advance for your help.
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5/1/2007 If a Dryad Arbor gains flash, or you have the ability to play Dryad Arbor as though it had flash (due to Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir orS cout's Warning, for example), you can ignore the normal timing rules for playing a land, but not any other restrictions. You can't play Dryad Arbor during another player's turn, and you can't play Dryad Arbor if it's your turn and you've already played a land.
So provided its your turn and you haven't played a land, you can play it.
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By this point, it is the 8th turn, and I went first. I missed the latest two land drops, and I have two cards in hand, Forced Fruition, and Broken Ambitions. I pass the turn. He has not missed a land drop yet, so has 7 forests waiting to be used. He pays 3 for a Loxodon Warhammer, which I let through, leaving him 4 open lands, just enough for his normal win condition, Dauntless Dourbark. I watch him tap all 4 forests and grin as he lays down Daunty. In response, I play Broken Ambitions, X being 1. Here is the problem, he plays a land, because lands don't use the stack, and taps it for mana, which also doesn't use the stack. Uses the 1 mana to pay for the Broken Ambitions, and from here we decide to stop the game because neither of us know if that play was legal or not. After looking at the comprehensive rules we are still not satisfied with the ruling one way or the other, so we come to you, MTGSalvation, and thank you in advance for your help.
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What if I had teferi, mage of zhelfir could I play a Dryad Arbor (that somehow had haste) and pay for the ambitions?
5/1/2007 If a Dryad Arbor gains flash, or you have the ability to play Dryad Arbor as though it had flash (due to Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir orS cout's Warning, for example), you can ignore the normal timing rules for playing a land, but not any other restrictions. You can't play Dryad Arbor during another player's turn, and you can't play Dryad Arbor if it's your turn and you've already played a land.
So provided its your turn and you haven't played a land, you can play it.
Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.