From my understand of Blood moon, ETB effects of lands still happen. For example a Rakdos Guildgate will still enter the battlefield tapped because the effect of blood moon applies once it is on the battlefield, not how it enters the battlefield. This being said, I would think Dark Depths enters with the ice counters, and they can be removed via vampire hexmage but not from the ability of dark depths. And if it loses its counters while blood moonis in play, it will still be a mountain until it leaves play.
The ability is linked to a may clause, and it is all one ability. So if you choose to not target anything, you are choosing to not resolve its etb effect. Part of that effect is the +1/+1 counter. So no it will not get a counter unless it copies something.
For example, if you're getting flooded with lands, or not drawing any lands, a fresh shuffle can fix that.
Statistically, no, it absolutely does not, at least for a sufficiently randomized library. If you're at, say, 50 cards left in your library, and you know that 20 of them are land, the fact that you've just stalled on land for your first few draws does not mean shuffling your library will have any effect. It's the same reason why if you flip a coin and get heads, then flip a coin again, your odds of that second heads are still 1/2. If drawing cards can't be considered randomized, independent events (barring effects such as Vampiric Tutor or Brainstorm), then there's a serious problem with how someone's shuffling.
Aww you beat me to it, but yes I completely agree. Unless you have done something within the constraints of the game, you should have no idea what your next card is. Using a tutor in combination with Sensei's divining top is completely different, and might sway me to counter the tutor, if they don't like their next 3 draws.
It can give the player the opportunity to cheat by stacking their deck
If this is a valid concern for the people you play with, stop playing with them.
I was going to suggest just cutting their deck or shuffling their deck. It is completely legal to have the last shuffle of your opponents deck. My friends thought this was not right, and you could only cut, but if someone stacks their deck pregame for a perfect land to nonland ratio, and intentionally does a light shuffle, a simple cut isn't going to change that ratio enough to matter. But absolutely you are right. If this is a problem, this is not the type of player you want in your playgroup.
It usually depends. In 1v1 I would say always counter the tutor since it will either be helping them or hurting you a significant enough amount to go tutor for it. I play commander and usually I am not the biggest threat with my sen triplets deck, which means anything tutored to hurt someone isn't aimed at me, so I'll let it go. And anything they can tutor for to help them I can usually deal with. If I know the deck well enough and someone is going to get something I can't deal with because of deck construction, bad draws, etc. I counter the tutor.
I was playing 1v1 commander this past weekend. My friend had a Glen elendra archmage that he could have used to stop my demonic tutor which got me crypt ghast (which he couldn't counter} which allowed me to ramp into dread cacodemon, and pump out big creatures he couldn't counter to win the game. So yes, in that case, if he had countered my demonic tutor I would not have for sure lost, but I might have. I still think, though, that this was a case of always having to counter the tutor in 1v1 as opposed to always counter the tutor because in a commander game one of my two other opponents would have dealt with the crypt ghast immediately.
Okay I am new to the forum, and this whole clicking the card icon to link cards drives me crazy.
Edit: Always counter tooth and nail and any other tutor to battlefield cards unless you have a stifle for that craterhoof behemoth
Let's start with the MTG portion. There are those who play for fun and those who play to win. When I play, there are 4-5 of us and we devote an entire saturday to it, so we get 6+ games in. I usually try to win, but sometimes I wanna have fun, so I,ll pull out goblins and make my best goblin impression as they die. I've named my goblin tokens. Because I have fun outside the game like that, I am okay if the super competitive deck destroys me and the rest of the table while I make my fun goblin noises, so if you can do something like that, it'll make it more fun for you.
Now I totally understand not even being able to play the game and losing simply due to budget. The best thing you can do is to refuse to play if you simply cannot achieve your goal, be it winning or having fun making goblin noises. I would say to talk to him, but it seems you've tried that, so on to the life portion.
Give him exactly what he gives to you, and when he says something about it, remind him about his behavior. I had a toxic player in my playgroup, who has slowly been getting invited less and less, who once threw my diabolic edict across the room because I made him sacrifice his commander. I know it isn't expensive, but it is the principle, and he I wouldn't put it past him to throw a force of will across the room because he got countered while I was tapped out, especially considering he doesn't know the price of the card, but again price is irrelevant. I threw his sliver queen across the room. The conversation went something like this:
Him (Yelling): What the F*CK!! THATS $40 (again he only knows how much he paid, not the current value)You can't just throw people's cards.
Me (Calmly): You threw mine.
Him (He yells throughout the entire conversation): Yours wasn't a f*cking sliver queen. This is 40 f*cking bucks
Me: How much was mine worth?
Him: I don't know (This is where it should have stopped. If you don't know, you shouldn't use the price as a basis for your argument) like a dollar.
There is more to the conversation, but you get the point. I gave him the same exact crap he gave me. And I intentionally made sure to target his more pricey valuables.
So to translate this to your situation, if he squirts you with a water bottle and it isn't clearly playful teasing, chuck it at his head. Okay maybe too extreme. Make a point that you don't like it, and then you know if he does it again, he is intentionally trying to piss you off, and get pissed of, and now absolutely do chuck it at his head, or grab something else and throw it at him.
I am not trying to encourage violence, but you need to make it clear to him that you won't tolerate his crap, and this is the most effective way I can think of if simply talking like grown ups doesn't work.
To summarize: Give him what he gives you, in a disproportional amount. If he is ignoring you for a day, ignore him for a week. If he squirts you with the bottle once, squirt him until his hair looks like he got out of the shower. And make sure he knows it is not okay to be what is essentially a bully to you, weather it is by the discouraged, but sometimes necessary violence or some other method.
Sadly you can't just stop inviting him to MTG since you live with him. You can always go somewhere he isn't to play the game, but you still live with the dude. I get along with my roommate by simply not talking to him. Nothing like this happened, but we just don't have much in common, and that results in no communication except for necessities. If your relationship dissolves into this, don't be sad.
I had a friend who got upset when you asked "stupid" questions such as hey what time do you get off work tomorrow? And he says something like the same time I got off last Tuesday, even if the Tuesday before that he got off late/early. Eventually I had to watch what I said because he would get unnecessarily mad, but then I decided if he can't understand I don't know, and hence the reason I am asking, then he has too small a brain capacity for me to be associated with, and have not regretted hanging out with him.
Sorry for the long read. Part of it was venting my anger about throw cards around guy.
Melira, Sylvok Outcast and Solemnity function differently in this instance. An unblocked Blighted Agent would deal 1 damage to you while you controlled Melira, and this damage would cause you to lose life instead of you getting a poison counter. Meanwhile, the Agent would still deal you damage while you controlled Solemnity, except it would essentially have no result - the damage would still be dealt in the form of you getting a counter, which can't happen, so you simply don't.
If the Blighted Agent somehow had lifelink, would it's controller gain life? I would say no because it deals damage in the form of the counters, but Solemnity simply doesn't allow that to happen, so no damage is dealt.
Aww you beat me to it, but yes I completely agree. Unless you have done something within the constraints of the game, you should have no idea what your next card is. Using a tutor in combination with Sensei's divining top is completely different, and might sway me to counter the tutor, if they don't like their next 3 draws.
I was going to suggest just cutting their deck or shuffling their deck. It is completely legal to have the last shuffle of your opponents deck. My friends thought this was not right, and you could only cut, but if someone stacks their deck pregame for a perfect land to nonland ratio, and intentionally does a light shuffle, a simple cut isn't going to change that ratio enough to matter. But absolutely you are right. If this is a problem, this is not the type of player you want in your playgroup.
It usually depends. In 1v1 I would say always counter the tutor since it will either be helping them or hurting you a significant enough amount to go tutor for it. I play commander and usually I am not the biggest threat with my sen triplets deck, which means anything tutored to hurt someone isn't aimed at me, so I'll let it go. And anything they can tutor for to help them I can usually deal with. If I know the deck well enough and someone is going to get something I can't deal with because of deck construction, bad draws, etc. I counter the tutor.
I was playing 1v1 commander this past weekend. My friend had a Glen elendra archmage that he could have used to stop my demonic tutor which got me crypt ghast (which he couldn't counter} which allowed me to ramp into dread cacodemon, and pump out big creatures he couldn't counter to win the game. So yes, in that case, if he had countered my demonic tutor I would not have for sure lost, but I might have. I still think, though, that this was a case of always having to counter the tutor in 1v1 as opposed to always counter the tutor because in a commander game one of my two other opponents would have dealt with the crypt ghast immediately.
Okay I am new to the forum, and this whole clicking the card icon to link cards drives me crazy.
Edit: Always counter tooth and nail and any other tutor to battlefield cards unless you have a stifle for that craterhoof behemoth
Now I totally understand not even being able to play the game and losing simply due to budget. The best thing you can do is to refuse to play if you simply cannot achieve your goal, be it winning or having fun making goblin noises. I would say to talk to him, but it seems you've tried that, so on to the life portion.
Give him exactly what he gives to you, and when he says something about it, remind him about his behavior. I had a toxic player in my playgroup, who has slowly been getting invited less and less, who once threw my diabolic edict across the room because I made him sacrifice his commander. I know it isn't expensive, but it is the principle, and he I wouldn't put it past him to throw a force of will across the room because he got countered while I was tapped out, especially considering he doesn't know the price of the card, but again price is irrelevant. I threw his sliver queen across the room. The conversation went something like this:
Him (Yelling): What the F*CK!! THATS $40 (again he only knows how much he paid, not the current value)You can't just throw people's cards.
Me (Calmly): You threw mine.
Him (He yells throughout the entire conversation): Yours wasn't a f*cking sliver queen. This is 40 f*cking bucks
Me: How much was mine worth?
Him: I don't know (This is where it should have stopped. If you don't know, you shouldn't use the price as a basis for your argument) like a dollar.
There is more to the conversation, but you get the point. I gave him the same exact crap he gave me. And I intentionally made sure to target his more pricey valuables.
So to translate this to your situation, if he squirts you with a water bottle and it isn't clearly playful teasing, chuck it at his head. Okay maybe too extreme. Make a point that you don't like it, and then you know if he does it again, he is intentionally trying to piss you off, and get pissed of, and now absolutely do chuck it at his head, or grab something else and throw it at him.
I am not trying to encourage violence, but you need to make it clear to him that you won't tolerate his crap, and this is the most effective way I can think of if simply talking like grown ups doesn't work.
To summarize: Give him what he gives you, in a disproportional amount. If he is ignoring you for a day, ignore him for a week. If he squirts you with the bottle once, squirt him until his hair looks like he got out of the shower. And make sure he knows it is not okay to be what is essentially a bully to you, weather it is by the discouraged, but sometimes necessary violence or some other method.
Sadly you can't just stop inviting him to MTG since you live with him. You can always go somewhere he isn't to play the game, but you still live with the dude. I get along with my roommate by simply not talking to him. Nothing like this happened, but we just don't have much in common, and that results in no communication except for necessities. If your relationship dissolves into this, don't be sad.
I had a friend who got upset when you asked "stupid" questions such as hey what time do you get off work tomorrow? And he says something like the same time I got off last Tuesday, even if the Tuesday before that he got off late/early. Eventually I had to watch what I said because he would get unnecessarily mad, but then I decided if he can't understand I don't know, and hence the reason I am asking, then he has too small a brain capacity for me to be associated with, and have not regretted hanging out with him.
Sorry for the long read. Part of it was venting my anger about throw cards around guy.
If the Blighted Agent somehow had lifelink, would it's controller gain life? I would say no because it deals damage in the form of the counters, but Solemnity simply doesn't allow that to happen, so no damage is dealt.