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  • posted a message on Activated and Triggered abilities
    The answer is that all of your triggered abilities are on the stack, but cyc rift is on top of it.

    So cyc rift will resolve first have you pick up your non land board, then all of your triggered abilities will resolve.
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  • posted a message on How should a Judge handle these 2 situations
    Quote from thatmarkguy »
    If the player has a known reputation for giving gifts to conceding opponents, does that change anything? The player may not need to speak an offer, but if it is generally known around the shop from past history that player tends to gift people who award him concedes, people will be more willing to concede to that player.


    No it does not change anything, we can't make "being nice" bribery.

    A nice player can always decide that week to not give the opp a pack, so there is no deal unless specifically said.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Stonehewer Giant and Sigarda's Aid
    No, those effects tell you to attach to the creature so you are not using the equip ability and don't have to pay its cost.
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  • posted a message on Djinn of wishes + Stolen Identity question
    When you create a token it is considered to enter the battlefield so any replacements effects and things that trigger on etb happen.

    Aka yes you will get your wish counters.
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  • posted a message on Daxos of Meletis and medallions
    The reason it doesn't work is because cost reduction has nothing to do with spending mana. Those cards only reduce the generic mana, they do not pay with generic. Since there is no generic in the cost they can't reduce it.

    Daxos effect only comes into play when you are paying the mana, not when you are calculating how much it costs.
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  • posted a message on timing question
    You must target when the ability is put on the stack, which is before you sac
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  • posted a message on High Priest Morbid
    Once a creature dies, depending on who's turn it is and how the creature dies he may be able to path before you can activate, yet in this case you can respond to the path with the priest's ability.

    He can only stop it if he responds to (if possible) what is going to make a creature die.

    Note there are other rare ways to stop it (if they get priority first and use something with split second.
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  • posted a message on Populate
    No, if you populate after casting Ajani's Presence you will get just a 2/2, as you can only copy the base token (and other copy effects).
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  • posted a message on Talrand + Aetherize
    Correct, aetherize has no targets and no timing restrictions so you can cast it eot
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  • posted a message on The Gitrog Monster and Smallpox
    You do them in order written so Gitrog will be in the graveyard when you sac a land and it will not trigger.
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  • posted a message on Faith's Shield can target a player?
    No, the reason for that ruling is the fateful hour part where it says you also gain the protection.

    A player is not a permanent
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  • posted a message on Phyrexian metamorph and Iona, Shield of Emeria
    Note we aren't dealing with any ETB triggers, Iona is a replacement effect. Your posted rule still covers it though.
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  • posted a message on Scapeshift and Ghost Quarter question
    This will work only if they don't have a basic mountains to fetch, if they do then they can search it up and still have the trigger see five other mountains when they go to resolve. If they don't then yes it will work the only trigger that can see 5 other mountains will be the one you blew up.
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  • posted a message on Turn/phase question
    No, the untap step is the very first part of your turn there is nothing before that.
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  • posted a message on Restoration Angel vs Deflecting Palm
    Note deflecting palm doesn't target, so as you can flicker your revilark after it resolves for the effect stated, but if you act in response to the palm then he simply gets to choose something else (as you choose on resolution not on casting) to redirect.
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