I did say hard counter but you got me on two of those. More overcosted countermagic to add to my Commander decks!
I think Summary Dismissal counts as unique- of the very few spells or effects that can just exile spells from the stack, this might be the only one that doesn't either give the card back O-Ring style (Ashiok's Erasure, Spell Queller) or do it by ending the turn. It's also one of two that counters all abilities (Kadena's Silencer), again without ending the turn.
Lich's Mirror tries to restart it, also a unique one. Especially unique is the interaction with Donating it to an opponent and killing them with poison (infinite unbreakable loop, draws the game), as the Professor pointed out.
Speaking of, I don't know if it's still unique, but Leeches removes poison counters.
Like actually unique. I don't mean like "Darkness is the only fog in black". I mean "only card in the whole damn game that can do this".
I've been thinking about it for a while, and Voidmage Apprentice is the only card that can hard counter a spell with Split Second- morph as a special action, trigger goes on the stack, nothing else can because Split Second. It's been my pet card ever since in EDH. What else have you?
Infinity Elemental won't be legal because a creature's power has to be an actual number. As for Saw in Half, gonna be fun seeing that with Dockside Extortionist in cEDH.
The combo's pretty obvious. Gatherer says once and done, but it was the understanding of myself and a few other people that the trigger for losing the game is delayed further, thus requiring Sundial's activation perpetually. Which is right?
I know there are a lot of them, so discuss. Off the top of my head, I have Regrowth, Fork and Dingus Egg.
I think the idea there was Regrowth could get Black Lotus, Fork could copy Ancestral Recall, and Dingus Egg mattered because you'd be surprised how common blowing lands up was back then.
So basically yes. These questions are going to come up a lot most likely, so please move and archive this thread in card rulings proper for the future. I'll translate peter's analysis from super-lawyer to semi-understandable tomorrow.
Edit: I believe they can see the card you exiled after the search resolves.
Multo beno. I thought these would be the outcomes, but since I'm not an actual judge and this is a fairly deep matter, I wanted to double-check to be very sure.
Edit: if they control Ashiok and I control the other two? I don't mean to be pedantic, but the logic I followed on my own a few hours ago says I can dig from any library that isn't my own in this case. This was actually the most confusing scenario for me.
That answers a lot of questions, and I really appreciate it. What about the most probable scenario however, when I control all three and target an opponent?
I did say hard counter but you got me on two of those. More overcosted countermagic to add to my Commander decks!
I think Summary Dismissal counts as unique- of the very few spells or effects that can just exile spells from the stack, this might be the only one that doesn't either give the card back O-Ring style (Ashiok's Erasure, Spell Queller) or do it by ending the turn. It's also one of two that counters all abilities (Kadena's Silencer), again without ending the turn.
Lich's Mirror tries to restart it, also a unique one. Especially unique is the interaction with Donating it to an opponent and killing them with poison (infinite unbreakable loop, draws the game), as the Professor pointed out.
Speaking of, I don't know if it's still unique, but Leeches removes poison counters.
I've been thinking about it for a while, and Voidmage Apprentice is the only card that can hard counter a spell with Split Second- morph as a special action, trigger goes on the stack, nothing else can because Split Second. It's been my pet card ever since in EDH. What else have you?
Actually thank you. I'm much more interested where this will go now.
Probably something like
10G
Creature
~ costs X less, where X equals the total power of creatures you control
It's pretty much going to be a fixed Dreadnought.
Sundial of the Infinite
The combo's pretty obvious. Gatherer says once and done, but it was the understanding of myself and a few other people that the trigger for losing the game is delayed further, thus requiring Sundial's activation perpetually. Which is right?
I think the idea there was Regrowth could get Black Lotus, Fork could copy Ancestral Recall, and Dingus Egg mattered because you'd be surprised how common blowing lands up was back then.
Edit: I believe they can see the card you exiled after the search resolves.
Edit: if they control Ashiok and I control the other two? I don't mean to be pedantic, but the logic I followed on my own a few hours ago says I can dig from any library that isn't my own in this case. This was actually the most confusing scenario for me.