Unless I am missing something here, vigilance is mostly moot, right?
If you attack with the creatures and tap them on the resolution (activation?) of Ledev Champion's ability, they are going to be removed from combat anyway (excepting any on attack triggers).
As an aside to this, in tournament play would there be a requirement that the "top card" be visible by both players at all times or could you hold it in hand to compare to your existing hand?
The definition does require you to "randomize the cards" and randomization requires a change of the current sequence. Even if no one knows the current sequence, there is one, and the requirement is that it changes. Even though that could be as small as a single cut.
Amusingly "701.18e If an effect causes a player to shuffle a library containing zero or one cards, abilities that trigger when a library is shuffled will still trigger." is impossible as per MTG's definition of shuffle if you know the last card, since you would know the order. Well I read that one wrong.
If you attack with the creatures and tap them on the resolution (activation?) of Ledev Champion's ability, they are going to be removed from combat anyway (excepting any on attack triggers).
Amusingly "701.18e If an effect causes a player to shuffle a library containing zero or one cards, abilities that trigger when a library is shuffled will still trigger." is impossible as per MTG's definition of shuffle if you know the last card, since you would know the order.Well I read that one wrong.I'm still unsure how Turn Aside counters a curse. Am I just being really dense?
The wording of the card does not make it sound like it can counter something like a curse. Am I missing something?