Will Solemnity prevent an opponent from executing the Devoted Druid + Vizier of Remedies combo? Due to Vizier, no counters are ever actually placed on anything. Does that allow the combo to proceed or does Solemnity forbid you from even attempting to place a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid?
The snow cards are good but they're too spread out amongst the colors to really be viable. You can't put Skred, Couatl, and this into the same deck while running a snow land manabase.
It's only a 2-for-2 if your opponent has two artifact/enchantments to destroy. That's the problem. If they just have one key thing you need to kill, it's a terrible SB card because it 2-for-1s you. If, on the other hand, their deck is full of artifacts, like Affinity or Prison, it's also quite bad because in that case you want a sweeper like Shatterstorm or Creeping Corrosion. It's very bad when your SB cards are situational this way, in a format as wide open as Modern.
I honestly don't get the hype. Pitch spells are something you sideboard out, not in, and I can't imagine this being the best choice when it comes to SB artifact destruction.
I think you mean if you Ultimate and Jace dies from having 0 loyalty. Passive works even if you haven't ulted. If you ult and he goes to the yard for having 0 loyalty, his ult still lets you win. Doesn't matter if you have 7, 6, 5 or any other number of cards when you activate the ability. If you have 0 left in your library when it resolves, you win.
These were revealed on the Mythic Invitational stream that's still going on.
No what he said is also correct. If you have exactly 7 cards in your library when you activate his ult you don't trigger his static ability because you need to draw one more card. But you still win with the ults second part because you have 0 cards in your library.
Yes, but if you ultimate at 8 loyalty, Jace dies before the ability resolves, so the "win the game instead" isn't in effect anymore. If you have less than 7, you lose before the ability that says you win takes effect.
Don't you need exactly 7 to win if you pop it on 8 loyalty? It's not like Laboratory Maniac (or the first ability) where it says you win instead, you'll deck and die before the second part wins the game for you.
If you use Lazav, the Multifarious to copy Ashling the Pilgrim, put three Ashling activations on the stack, and then respond by changing Lazav into something else, what color is the damage considered for the purposes of protection and the like? Would changing him into a Burrenton Forge-Tender allow him to survive his own explosion, or would it be considered white damage since Lazav is now white?
Lavinia also significantly nerfs Ironworks because it shuts down Spine of Ish Sah and prevents Ironworks from looping Mox Opals for mana. I'm also not sure if it will block you from sacrificing Darksteel Citadels to cast a spell with a CMC higher than the lands you have left after sacrificing it.
My opponent casts Exhume. In response, I cast Containment Priest. In response to that, my opponent casts Gather Specimens. Does the creature from my graveyard enter under his control or does it get exiled?
Assassin's Trophy may end up being the best card in the set because of eternal format playability, as older formats just don't play many basics - and likely never will. The "destroy a land" aspect won't really matter for Standard though because they get an untapped land immediately.
This most interesting comparison/competitor for slots is likely Abrupt Decay.
Two mana is too expensive for a removal spell in Legacy. Nobody plays Abrupt Decay anymore either.
The mana cost compression in Legacy has become ridiculously absurd. The consensus best deck in that format (Death's Shadow) has zero cards in the maindeck that cost more than 1 mana to cast.
I have the Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Nameless Inversion combo. With Nameless Inversion as the only tribal card in graveyards, my opponent has a 6/7 Tarmogoyf. I want to destroy the Tarmogoyf by casting Nameless Inversion from my graveyard three times. My opponent says I can't do this, because when I announce it for the third time, Tarmogoyf will die as an 11/0, forcing me to target my own Haakon as the only other creature. Does Tarmogoyf actually become an 11/0 and die when I announce Nameless Inversion, but before I can target it? I know the ruling about how a 2/3 Tarmogoyf doesn't die to Lightning Bolt if there's no instants in the graveyard yet, which also prevents me from killing it with just two Nameless Inversion castings. Does the P/T switch work differently if I'm casting it for the third time out of a graveyard?
You can let one frenetic efreet activation resolve, at which point the efreet will either be dead or phased out. You can then kill either the Zndrsplt or the maniac and he can't respond with more flips at that point because the efreet isn't around anymore.
I'm pretty sure the answer to this question is yes but I'd like to be sure before I actually try building a deck: Can Sarkhan, Fireblood's second ability cast Nameless Inversion or is it limited to only casting creature spells?
Bolas checks most of the boxes for Standard playability. People won't play Grixis JUST to play this, but it definitely goes in there if it's a decent deck anyways. It's immune to Glorybringer and trades with it at parity which is massive. The major strike against it is that Chandra still kills it.
It also counters Terminus, which is hilarious.
Yes, but if you ultimate at 8 loyalty, Jace dies before the ability resolves, so the "win the game instead" isn't in effect anymore. If you have less than 7, you lose before the ability that says you win takes effect.
Two mana is too expensive for a removal spell in Legacy. Nobody plays Abrupt Decay anymore either.
The mana cost compression in Legacy has become ridiculously absurd. The consensus best deck in that format (Death's Shadow) has zero cards in the maindeck that cost more than 1 mana to cast.