MTG Salvation

No. Let me illustrate:

1. You cast Living Death. Living Death is on the stack.
2. You cast Dualcaster Mage. Living Death is on the stack and Dualcaster Mage is on the battlefield.
3. Dualcaster Mage copies Living Death. Living Death copy and Living Death are on the stack; Dualcaster Mage is on the battlefield.
4. Living Death copy resolves. Living Death is on the stack and Dualcaster Mage is in the graveyard.
5. Living Death original resolves. Nothing is on the stack and Dualcaster Mage is on the battlefield. Dualcaster Mage has nothing left to copy.

No. The only times you can choose the order in which multiple objects go on the stack is when either A) an effect puts multiple spells and/or abilities on the stack simultaneously, or B) multiple triggered abilities trigger at the same time. Rikku's ability triggers when you cast the spell, which means that the spell is already on the stack when the ability triggers and the ability must go on top of it.

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Grizzly Spectacle
Instant (U)
Put a 2/2 green Bear creature token onto the battlefield. It fights target creature an opponent controls.
Conspire

Pandamic
Tribal Enchantment - Bear Aura (R)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is a green Bear with base power and toughness 2/2 and loses all abilities.
Whenever blocks or becomes blocked by the enchanted creature put a token that's a copy of Pandamic onto the battlefield enchaining that creature.

IIW: Wibbly wobbly

That's bearly a pandamic if the bears maul each other to death in combat! Consider adding a claws that would keep them from caving in each other's skulls.

EDIT: also, whenever what blocks or becomes blocked?

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Reaper's Bite (2/B)(2/B)(2/B)
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target nonartifact creature. If that creature's converted mana cost is greater than or equal to Reaper's Bite's mana cost, its controller loses life equal to its power and you gain that much life.
It's harvest time again.

IIW: Lightning round

Doesn't work the way you've worded it. Mana cost is not a number and thus cannot be compared to converted mana cost. The mana cost of Reaper's Bite, furthermore, will always be (2/B)(2/B)(2/B) regardless of what you paid to cast it. See IcariiFA's card Channel Wrath for an approach to this that does work.

Restless Rascal 1RR
Creature - Devil (M)
Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, for each opponent who didn't cast a spell during his or her last turn, look at that player's hand. You may cast a nonland card from it without paying its mana cost.
Few things are more perilous than a bored devil.
3/1
IIW: One or more cards that would fit in a cycle with Meddling Mage.

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Topple the Eldrazi XRW
Sorcery (Rare)

Put two X/X red and white Human Soldier creature tokens with haste onto the battlefield.

Each creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each creature you don't control.

"Go on ahead, Sorin. We'll take care of things here." -Gideon, Refuge Commander

IIW: Cards for Lifegain.dec

3RW for basically a Plague Wind and 6 damage to the face. Sounds about right!

Played this list tonight at FNM, slightly adapted from UltraLunch's list, and went 3-0-1:



Round 1 vs. Abzan Goodstuff with a ton of 3-drops:
Lost game 1 -- Mulled to 6, kept Negate and Disdainful Stroke in the opening hand, neither of which had any valid targets, and couldn't draw a sweeper or enough spot removal to stabilize.
OUT: 2x Negate, 1x Disdainful Stroke
IN: 1x Resolute Archangel, 2x End Hostilities
Won game 2 -- Stabilized at about 5 life, cast Resolute Archangel, and managed to grind out a win with the Archangel, two Sphinxes, and an Elspeth.
Draw game 3 -- I was never under a lot of pressure this game, but my opponent managed to gain about 40 life thanks to Ajani and Sorin and I couldn't finish him off quite fast enough before running out of time and extra turns. Probably 1-2 turns short of the win.

Round 2 vs. Red-White aggro (paired down):
No difficulty at all here. Both games were complete blowouts in my favor.

Round 3 vs. Mardu aggro (paired up):
4x Anger of the Gods main makes this matchup pretty favorable. Never dropped below 8 life either game.

Round 4 vs. Blue-Black draw-go control:
Won game 1 -- I got pretty lucky managing to sneak a Keranos through my opponent's countermagic after he tapped out for Ashiok the previous turn. The only other threat I managed to resolve was a Sarkhan, which got in for 4 and then died to Hero's Downfall the next turn. Keranos managed to get there, though, eating through two Ashioks and about 26 life of damage. The game ended with zero cards left in my library, after Keranos domed my opponent with my last card.
OUT: 4x Chained to the Rocks, 4x Anger of the Gods, 1x Steam Augury
IN: 2x Negate, 1x Magma Jet, 1x Lightning Strike, 2x End Hostilities, 2x Erase, 1x Resolute Archangel
Chained to the Rocks and Anger of the Gods do nothing in this matchup and Steam Augury is bad in that it mills me and potentially lets my opponent bin a win condition or two. Archangel is an extra threat in a matchup in which I need every threat I can muster, Negate can protect my threats or counter his, End Hostilities can deal with any creatures he might side in or Sphinxes he might steal, and Erase deals with Keranos he might steal.
Game 2 opponent floods out, I manage to resolve Elspeth and keep her alive a few turns, and that is that.
I think I would not normally have won this matchup -- my threat density is pretty low; the combination of Ashiok, countermagic, and Hero's Downfall makes it very difficult for me to stick the threats I do have; and a number of my cards are pretty much dead in the matchup.

Thoughts for tuning the deck and playing it in the future:
- Don't keep a hand with two counterspells game 1 against an opponent with an unknown deck.
- Another 2x Flooded Strand would be pretty nice, probably over 2x Mystic Monastery. I just couldn't find any more in time for the event.
- I think I'd rather maindeck 4x Magma Jet -- the number of three-toughness creatures I saw was very low, while the scry on Jet was very handy.
- Steam Augury performed well the one time I resolved it, but I'd rather have Jace's Ingenuity or another threat.
- A few extra threats on the sideboard would help improve the control matchup. Mantis Rider and/or another Prognostic Sphinx or two are likely candidates.

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Scaredypants 2
Artifact {U}
When equipped creature leaves the battlefield, if it didn't die, it deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.
Equip 0

IIW: A card for Norin the Wary EDH.

Pants on Fire 2
Artifact (U)
Equipped creature has haste.
R: Pants on Fire deals 1 damage to equipped creature.
Equip

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Ergodic Frog 2GU
Creature - Frog (R)
Return Ergodic Frog from the battlefield to its owner's hand: Draw a card.
3/3

IIW: unusual but printable costs

Whispers of the Muse cost six mana to reuse and didn't come with an unkillable 3/3 body.

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Frogatog 2GU
Creature - Atog (U)
Sacrifice a Frog creature: ~ gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.
2/3

IIW: The Iroan Games

This is neither rare nor a frog.

I've tested both and been consistently underwhelmend by prognostic sphinx. If you're looking for topdeck control, Jace, the living guildpact does that job a lot better and a lot faster, plus synergizes with the new draw cards. And with all the cheap instant removal leaving standard, hexproof is less relevant, since stormbreath dodges a lot of the powerful removal anyway

These are of course all just my subjective opinions. I still haven't written the sphinx off entirely, but it seems a little clunky.

I suppose there's an argument to be made that Sphinx is a bad stormbreath and a bad jace rolled into a single card, so it's worth the downsides to ahve it serve both functions - e.g. a clock and topdeck manipulation.

The list I'm testing is somewhat similar. It revolves around Chained to the Rocks and Anger of the gods.

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There is only one flamingo, that is Megiddo

it's Megiddo's club we just post in it.

Welcome to Club Flamingo! If you aren't familiar with the rules for gentlemen's clubs, open the spoiler right here. If you've posted in "the Winner is Judge" before, you'll be fine.

But isn't this Club Flamingo? Yes. This automatically makes it classier than basically every other thread on here. But this thread isn't made just for me to dress up like a flamingo. In the next spoiler you will find the special rules for this club.

Lets be realistic here and stop discussing pacemakers and hearing aids. No judge in their right mind is going to disallow a player from using a pacemaker or hearing aid.

This policy change is clearly intended to remove grey area surrounding outside assistance via devices that connect to the internet.

Your smartphone is out-of-bounds. Your pacemaker is 100% legal.

Suspension Bridge 3
Artifact {R}
Whenever a creature attacks, if it didn't enter the battlefield this turn, exile it with a time counter on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend.

IIW: Enemy-color activation.

For punisher:


IIW: Dwarves. Everywhere.

"Bone Banger"

"Okay, men. Broodmate Dragon clearly isn't powerful enough. Let's make them far, far better."
"Make them both 5/5's?"
"Keep going."
"Make them four mana?"
"COME ON MAN. WE'RE NOT EVEN THERE YET."
"Make one of them a Spark Trooper that doesn't die at end of turn?"
"THAT'S NOTHING. WE NEED TO TEAR THE METAGAME APART."
"Give the other one first strike and the ability to pump both of them?"
"KEEP GOING. WE NEED TO MAKE JACE, THE MIND SCULPTOR LOOK LIKE A JUNK RARE."
"Make one an indestructible dinorider and the other one a dinosaur?"
"We've made it. Here we are."

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Muraganda

Vaerik, of the Sworn 1BRG
Legendary Creature - Human Dinorider
First Strike
When Vaerik, of the Sworn enters the battlefield, search your library for a creature named Vorgun, the Bleeding Rose onto the battlefield.
RG: Vaerik and Vorgun get +2/+2 until end of turn.
5/5

Vorgun, the Bleeding Rose 1BRG
Legendary Creature - Dinosaur
Haste, Trample, Lifelink
Creatures you control named Vaerik, of the Sworn, are indestructible.
5/5

I'm going to quote my favorite post because it is relevant to the challenge.

Quote from TacticalCelebrant

Dystopic Magic the Gathering. As a movie trailer.

*Dramatic music playing*

In a world where the power creep has completeley taken over magic,

"Mr. President, the first preview for the next set just appeared. There's something you need to see."
"How bad is it?"

Tiny Drake 1U
Creature - Drake (C)
Flying
3/3

"Mother of God."

Dun Dun

When the Color Pie is falling apart,

*Sobbing* "I don't want to cast the spell. It's wrong!"
"You have to. It's the only way to win."

Insight of the Fields 1WW
Sorcery (U)
Draw 3 cards.

"Someone please save us!"

Dun Dun

And a game begins to die.

"You can't stop it. Can't you see? It's already here."

Jace, the Mind Sculptor 2UU
Planeswalker - Jace (M)
/+2:\ Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
[0:] Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
\-1:/ Return target creature to its owner's hand.
\-12:/ Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
[3]

Dun Dun

One club dares to stand out against tyrrany.

"Did you hear? Some rogue website is creating custom cards and sets."
"Cards that aren't even legal? Who would dare such a thing?"
*Window breaks. A figure lands in the room.* "I would."

Dun Dun

This Summer,

"Who are you?"

Club Flamingo is

"Your Salvation."
*Explosion*

MTGSALVATION THE MOVIE

IIW: Post a card for your IIW.

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I really hate cards that create multiple types of tokens for no good reason (i.e. every submission for this challenge). I'd much rather riff an elegant card than invent an awkward one.



The card actually came out of the colors, not the other way around.

But... Cleric tribal... Angels and demons... IT MAKES TOKEN FOR GOOD REASON JERK!

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Hunted Demigod WUBRG
Creature - Avatar (M)
When Hunted Demigod enters the battlefield, put a 1/4 white Cat Cleric creature token with vigilance, a 2/3 blue Vedalken Wizard creature token with hexproof, a 3/2 black Vampire Shaman creature token with flying, a 4/1 red Human Barbarian creature token with first strike, and a 3/3 green Elf Warrior creature token with forestwalk onto the battlefield under target opponent's control.
20/20

IIW: ____ from the ____.

Reread the challenge.