Does Sakashima the Impostor AKA Thragtusk AKA Murderous Redcap AKA Li'l Red AKA Anonymous Walmart Greeter AKA... and Sakashima the Impostor, have different names? I'd think yes, since {A} has one that's not {B}'s name (i.e., a name of {B}).
This directly contradicts CR 201.2c.
201.2c. Two or more objects have different names if there are no names that both objects have in common.
This rule is funny because the first half say "two or more" but the second half only mentions the two-object case ("both objects"), but it is clear Sakashima and Walmart Sakashima do NOT have different names.
Now, how about three or more objects? Changing "both" to "all" is clearly wrong (A, A and B would be differently named), so the only option seems to be changing "both objects" to "two or more of those objects".
"At the end of (that) turn" in old cards, including Final Fortune, means "At the beginning of (that turn's) end step". Final Fortune says, "At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game."
1. Ending the turn is covered in CR 716.1. If Sundial of the Infinite's ability resolves in the postcombat main phase or earlier, the game skips to the cleanup step. "that turn's end step" never comes, so nothing happens.
716.1e. Even though the turn ends, "at the beginning of the end step" triggered abilities don't trigger because the end step is skipped.
If you go into the end step, Final Fortune's delayed triggered ability triggers and is put on the stack. If you activate Sundial at this point and it resolves, the triggered ability is exiled and doesn't resolve.
716.1b. Exile every object on the stack, including the object that's resolving. All objects not on the battlefield or in the command zone that aren't represented by cards will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are checked (see rule 704, "State-Based Actions").
2. In this case, the delayed trigger resolves and tries to make you lose. But you can't, so it does nothing.
3. During the end step, Stunning Reversal replaces your loss. Nothing special happens in cleanup step, so you don't get priority. You do get priority in the end step after you draw the cards, however.
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That is not the problem. Nobody doubts the copies "know" a spell is spliced on it, but why exactly the text is changed is unclear, since the splice ability only mentions the spell it is spliced onto.
By the way, I disagree with peteroupc about Boseiju. I believe how the cost was paid isn't copied. For example, Reverberate-ing Painful Truths does nothing.
"Damage to any target" is a wording introduced when damage redirection to planeswalkers was abolished. Note that oracle texts are the only "valid" texts, so Acorn Catapult can target planeswalkers.
No.
The second sentence of Yawgmoth's Will creates a replacement effect. The Shadowborn Apostles aren't exiled from the graveyard; They are never put there in the first place. No matter when you activate (not trigger) No Rest for the Wicked's ability, it can't bring them back.
You actually can't cast Zoetic Cavern from the top of your library with Garruk's Horde either for the same reason - while it's in your library, it's a land card, not a creature card, so you won't be able to cast it from there with that ability since the ability specifies that you can only cast the top card of your library if it's a creature card.
A Judge Blog and a Cranial Insertion Article (both fairly old but should still be accurate) disagree with you:
You check the legality of casting it after it has gone onto the stack (the fifth step specifically) and Horde allows you to cast a creature from the top of your library. And since the card is now face down on the stack, and it is a card, it is a creature card since that it what it is on the stack when the game checks to see if you are permitted to cast it.
Now the game checks if a spell can be cast both before (601.3) and after (601.2e) it moves to the stack, and effects that allow you to cast spells with certain characteristics from zones other than hand aren't covered in 601.3 a-d.
As another example Nacatl War-Pride has a requirement that cannot be interpreted locally (there are quite a few restrictions that cannot be interpretted locally, like e.g. anything with meanace, but this is the only example I could find for requirements), i.e. to see if a creature satisfies the requirement you must check that globally it is the only one blocking this war-
After pondering about this, I stand corrected. Nacatl War-Pride's ability must be handled as one requirement that involves all potential blockers. I now think the key is the subject: Shinen's ability is a statement about all creatures (that are able to block it), and Nacatl War-Pride's is a statement about itself. Treating the former as one inseparable effect is like saying, "Wrath of God says destroy all creatures. Hazoret the Fervent has indestructible, so destroying all creature is impossible. Therefore none is." to me.
In CR 509.1c, requirement is defined as "effects that say a creature must block, or that it must block if some condition is met" (emphasis mine). A means one, so the natural interpretation is that Shinen creates one requirement for each creature.
607.3. If, within a pair of linked abilities, one ability refers to a single object as "the exiled card," "a card exiled with [this card]," or a similar phrase, and the other ability has exiled multiple cards (usually because it was copied), the ability refers to each of the exiled cards. If that ability asks for any information about the exiled card, such as a characteristic or converted mana cost, it gets multiple answers. If these answers are used to determine the value of a variable, the sum of the answers is used. If that ability performs any actions on the exiled card, it performs that action on each exiled card.
I think the natural interpretation is that "it refers to each of the exiled cards" and "it gets multiple answers" in this situation (i.e. spells that share the CMC with either of the exiled cards trigger the damage). The next sentence is for things that can't have multiple values (For example, if it were to deal X damage, where X is the CMC of "the exiled card").
Of course, if you have something like Stroke of Genius in your deck, you can keep drawing until you find one, then keep looping without drawing until you have enough mana, and then play it for lethal. Is that what you meant?
"Prevent", in magic, is a technical term and can only be applied to damage.
615.1. Some continuous effects are prevention effects. Like replacement effects (see rule 614), prevention effects apply continuously as events happen--they aren't locked in ahead of time. Such effects watch for a damage event that would happen and completely or partially prevent the damage that would be dealt. They act like "shields" around whatever they're affecting.
As far as I know, there is no card that enables what you want to do. If you control [[Platinum Emperion]], you can't pay life at all (and damage or other effects can't reduce your life total). If you control [[Phyrexian Unlife]], you don't lose due to losing life (you continue playing with 0 or negative life), but you still can't pay 50 life unless you have at least 50 life.
118.4. If a cost or effect allows a player to pay an amount of life greater than 0, the player may do so only if their life total is greater than or equal to the amount of the payment. If a player pays life, the payment is subtracted from their life total; in other words, the player loses that much life. (Players can always pay 0 life.)
"Choosing to do nothing" is not the same same thing as "choosing to do something".
It is still choosing, and "choice" is just a noun form of choose, which is synonymous to "choosing".
But the unstated premise is that passing priority, (or declining to do something optional in an effect) is not considered a choice for the loop rules.
I don't see where this assertion comes from.
Also, I don't know of any time when a player could be forced to do something using a spell from a hidden zone.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but MTR4.4 says
If the choice involves hidden information, a judge may be needed to determine whether any choice is available that will not continue the loop.
Therefore you can call a judge to have him confirm Lich's Mastery player can't do make a "choice ... that will not continue the loop" while Necropotence player (obviously) can.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/amonkhet-update-bulletin-oracle-changes-2017-04-28
This rule is funny because the first half say "two or more" but the second half only mentions the two-object case ("both objects"), but it is clear Sakashima and Walmart Sakashima do NOT have different names.
Now, how about three or more objects? Changing "both" to "all" is clearly wrong (A, A and B would be differently named), so the only option seems to be changing "both objects" to "two or more of those objects".
If you control
- Eight ordinary gates with different names,
- A gate named Sakashima, the Impostor,
- A gate that has a gazillion names, one of which is Sakashima, the Impostor,
do you control ten gates with different names?1. Ending the turn is covered in CR 716.1. If Sundial of the Infinite's ability resolves in the postcombat main phase or earlier, the game skips to the cleanup step. "that turn's end step" never comes, so nothing happens.
If you go into the end step, Final Fortune's delayed triggered ability triggers and is put on the stack. If you activate Sundial at this point and it resolves, the triggered ability is exiled and doesn't resolve.
2. In this case, the delayed trigger resolves and tries to make you lose. But you can't, so it does nothing.
3. During the end step, Stunning Reversal replaces your loss. Nothing special happens in cleanup step, so you don't get priority. You do get priority in the end step after you draw the cards, however.
That is not the problem. Nobody doubts the copies "know" a spell is spliced on it, but why exactly the text is changed is unclear, since the splice ability only mentions the spell it is spliced onto.
By the way, I disagree with peteroupc about Boseiju. I believe how the cost was paid isn't copied. For example, Reverberate-ing Painful Truths does nothing.
The second sentence of Yawgmoth's Will creates a replacement effect. The Shadowborn Apostles aren't exiled from the graveyard; They are never put there in the first place. No matter when you activate (not trigger) No Rest for the Wicked's ability, it can't bring them back.
The rule for casting legality has changed since then.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/core-set-2019-comprehensive-rules-changes-2018-07-06
Now the game checks if a spell can be cast both before (601.3) and after (601.2e) it moves to the stack, and effects that allow you to cast spells with certain characteristics from zones other than hand aren't covered in 601.3 a-d.
I think the natural interpretation is that "it refers to each of the exiled cards" and "it gets multiple answers" in this situation (i.e. spells that share the CMC with either of the exiled cards trigger the damage). The next sentence is for things that can't have multiple values (For example, if it were to deal X damage, where X is the CMC of "the exiled card").
Dash Hopes counters itself, in a sense.
As far as I know, there is no card that enables what you want to do. If you control [[Platinum Emperion]], you can't pay life at all (and damage or other effects can't reduce your life total). If you control [[Phyrexian Unlife]], you don't lose due to losing life (you continue playing with 0 or negative life), but you still can't pay 50 life unless you have at least 50 life.
I don't see where this assertion comes from.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but MTR4.4 says
Therefore you can call a judge to have him confirm Lich's Mastery player can't do make a "choice ... that will not continue the loop" while Necropotence player (obviously) can.