MTG Salvation

Thanks all for confirming.

I'm doubting this works, but is it possible to Stifle All Hallow's Eve's triggered ability and thus stop it from firing off or, does it not matter what happens to its triggered ability (removing the scream counters) and the intervening if clause takes effect as soon as All Hallow's Eve has no scream counters?
In effect, what I'm asking is, outside of countering All Hallow's Eve, is there any way to stop its effect from resolving?

The LGSs I talked to said they’ve heard nothing. There’s a feeling that WOTC just quietly backed away from sending them out.

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Like many new card types (ans mostly sub-card types) they've done in the past, I think battle will be something that technically they could have done with another card type, but it would make no sense for flavor. Like vehicule are midway artifact / creatures, planeswalker midway creature / modal spells, battle are probably mid-way lands / enchantments. They represent a location like a land, but they are cast, have a mana cost, can be played more than one per turn and have a global permanent effect. Or maybe an effect until your next turn?

Exactly what I was thinking as well.

Why thank you!

During your upkeep, can you sacrifice a permanent(that has an upkeep cost) to another ability before paying its upkeep cost?
My intuition says "no", but I would like clarification please. Thanks.

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I like the Ugin, sure I won't like its price on the secondary market.

Right!

So we're just going to gloss over the impaled guy in the art of Stonecoil Serpent?

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Apples and oranges.

I wish the MTG community would unite and put up a united front but this isn't a RPG. RPG's are based on players minds and imaginations, rules can be arbitrary and flexible. MTG is bound by strict rules printed on pieces of cardboard. No deviation from those rules are allowed. It is a chessboard with changing pieces that if you pay more you may indeed win more. On top of that those changing pieces are treated like stocks and traded like them as well. Until players quit paying stupid amounts of money for little pieces of cardboard (to "win" at all costs) nothing is going to change.

I don't like it, but that is the reality of the situation.

I will be looking into Sorcery when they finally get around to printing their Unlimited/Beta edition this year at some point. I hope others will do the same.

The thing is, is that it's possible to play Magic and at the same time not support WOTC. If you at the Old School 93/93 and Premodern formats for example. These are formats that are player driven and run, and they are formats that WOTC doesn't explicitly print cards to. The fact is, is that it's possible to play Magic without ever engaging in new products if you want to do so.

I have spent ridiculous amounts on individual cards. Not for the sake of winning more, but to build up a collection. Buying older cards on the secondary market doesn't support WOTC, it supports the LGSs.(and yes I am aware that buying new singles does support WOTC de facto)

The Magic community could boycott WOTC, but the fact is that "MTG community" is a misnomer, we are multiple communities with varied ways with which we engage the game. The same holds true for the D&D community, but the difference is that WOTC pissed off the part of the D&D community that is the most financially engaged. There are tons of D&D groups that are completely unaffected by WOTC's decisions and could care less one way or another. When I play D&D I'm playing a mix of 1st and 2nd Editions, no need for papa Hasbro subsidiary products for my group.
It's be cool if Magic players could have the ability to influence WOTC's decisions, but the very nature of the game makes that improbable.

One advantage the TTRPG community has over the MTG community is that it's really easy and inexpensive for a playgroup to switch gaming systems and just carry on. Much more difficult to do with a giant collection of cards.
Luckily I own enough cards to play the game for the rest of my life and not need to acquire any further cards, even though I will.

Can you use Aladdin's Lamp to replace any card draw or just the card drawn for the turn?
I'm thinking yes but would like confirmation one way or the other.

I'll be pissed if there's no Smaug.

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Yes. The Oracle text says "destroy", so indestructible will keep the Laucher around when its own delayed trigger tries to destroy it.

Thank you. A small part of my confusion stemmed from the fact that the word "sacrifice" was used in one of the Oracle rulings.

I always assumed that after you used Rocket Launcher that you "sacrificed" it at the end of the turn in which you used it. But, upon a closer reading, it appears to simply just "get destroyed" when used. So if I were to have something out like a Guardian Beast or Darksteel Forge the Rocket Launcher would stick around after being used, correct?

Can Captain Rex Nebula's first triggered ability target a permanent that is already a Vehicle?
I believe the answer is yes, but one never be too certain about these things, especially when he doesn't show up on Gatherer.