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  • posted a message on "Dropmix" - A window into the future of magic?
    "When a DROPMIX Card is placed on a Mix Slot, the electronic DROPMIX Board immediately starts playing the corresponding part of the song (bass, beat, loop or vocals) noted on the card. The board reads up to five DROPMIX Cards at time, using NFC chip-enabled cards, and the proprietary software in the app seamlessly combines the music within each card to create a unique mix."

    http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170901005055/en/

    While I don't think something like this is imminent, what would you think of a potential future where playing physical Magic: The Gathering incorporated a system like this?
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on Scalelord Reckoner and Mirror of the Forebears
    no. The Mirror was not a dragon when it became the target.

    Edit: Assume you tried to destroy the mirror with Vindicate or similar targeted spell/effect.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Mirage Mirror & Helm of Obedience
    Assuming your opponent kept their helm tapped, the creature would revert back to your opponent when the mirage mirror became untapped, not when it stops being a helm.

    Control changing effects are ruled by the most recently applied effect, but they do not erase the previously applied effects. If one is removed, the next most recent effect will determine control.

    The "Helm of Possession" in "Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Helm of Possession and Helm of Possession remains tapped." means "this object." When Mirage Mirror reverts to it's original form, or even copies something else, it's characteristics change but it remains the same game object.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Alms Collector and Abundance
    I thought since the draw cards portion of wheel was one instruction the alms collector might see all the drawing as one event and since that event includes the thing to be replaced, the whole thing could be eligible for replacement.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Alms Collector and Abundance
    What stops the alms collector replacing the whole wheel of fortune?
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Responding to prowess trigger
    yes. The prowess trigger goes on the stack above the ponder. You get priority to act before the prowess trigger resolves and also after it resolves before ponder resolves.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Command Zone
    903.9. If a commander would be exiled from anywhere or put into its owner’s hand, graveyard, or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event. This is an exception to rule 614.5.

    http://media.wizards.com/2017/downloads/MagicCompRules_20170707.txt
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on -1/-1 Counter on Eldrazi Scion; Can it be sacrificed before it dies?
    What about lethal sting? Can the counter go on the scion and also sac the scion for mana or do i have to pay the mana before additional costs?
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on about sacrificing things
    Oni posession is an aura so it should be attached to a creature, probably one of hers. The creature it's attached to is not exempt from being sacrificed. Once the creature the aura is attached to dies the aura also goes to the graveyard. If she cast the aura on one of yor creatures she would still be the one that needs to sacrifice every turn. If she can't nothing happens, the aura stays in play.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Copying Gonti's Aether Heart
    Nope.

    Warning issued for lack of explanation. -MadMage
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Infinite combos
    you mean like stifle disallow and the like countering grindstone's activated ability on the stack before it starts resolving?
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on "Exchange Life" and Life-gain Prevention
    What about Flames of the Blood Hand? It seems this wording would allow the exchange and just replace the life gain portion.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Ruling problem involving Sanctum of Ugin and counterspells.
    Could OP offer to pass priority until the the last priority before Colossus resolves?

    As a shortcut this should force the colossus player to interrupt the shortcut with any/all invisible triggers they wanted to take action on without relinquishing the ability to counter the colossus and also leaving ambiguous how many(if any) invisible triggers may be on the stack.

    Likewise, if the colossus player announced their spell and the OP were to ask "Any triggers before it resolves?" the colossus player would be required to acknowledged the invisible triggers or miss them and OP should still have a chance to counter, right?
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
  • posted a message on Answering a vague question about the game state with a vague but technically correct answer
    To the question "does that go away?" the answer "no" is pattently false. The question is not vague unless you want to argue about what "that" may refer to. What the question is, is broad. There is not a spesific timeframe that the question refers to. You should not be allowed to invent those spesifics to change the answer into a question that was not asked.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings
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