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In most ways, a Phyrexian mana symbol works like any other mana symbol of its color. Mutagenic Growth is always a green card, because it has a green mana symbol in its cost—it doesn't matter whether you actually paid any green mana to cast it.
I like it with the Tupor Orb. Turn 4 10/10s are fun in Magical Christmas Land.
Turn 1: Land
Turn 2: Land, Chalice for 1
Turn 3: Grand Architect, Tupor Orb
Turn 4: 10/10
Other than that, I'm not too impressed.
Yeah, that's not the way that would work. Torpor orb stops triggers. Triggers are always formated with "When..." "Whenever..." or "At the beginning of..." Etched Monstrosity says "~enters the battle field with..." which falls under the syntax for a replacement effect. Torpor orb will not effect the monstrosity.
Let me ask you something: At what point do you think the cards become yours in a sealed deck tournament with no deck swap or pool registration? Is it theft if you drop and leave, before the tournament ends?
I think that MTR 7.3 is the controlling document here, which states "Players are not considered to own the cards until the tournament finishes or they legally drop." what it means to legally drop isn't explicitly defined, however it has been interpreted to mean that TO's can organize tournaments where players redraft rares. In such a case a player who leaves with his deck is stealing prize support. Generally speaking though, there are no restrictions on players leaving without opening their packs since the DCI can't actually stop people from doing this. Any sort of policy which attempts to force a player to do so would have to come from the store owner, and not the DCI.
Semantic bickering aside. The problem with including emblems in booster packs is that each emblem coresponds to only a single (mythic) card that can produce it. This is the same problem presented by such token "cards" as the White */* Avatar in M10 and M11; it's a "card" that's entirely worthless without the one mythic rare card that makes such tokens. If Wizards could ensure that that emblem "card"/"token"/"flattened wood-pulp rectangle" always appeared in packs alongside the appropriate mythic, that would be one thing, but otherwise the emblem things would just be of no use to most players who receive them.
I actually really like the very rare tokens they make. Whenever I opened one of the */* vampire tokens from Zendikar (that Kalitas used) it made me smile. That said, I hope they change their stance on printing emblems. It would be a little tricky, since emblems don't have a lot of the characteristics we are used to seeing (like names, colors, whatever), but I think it would definitely be workable, especially if they modeled them after the poison counters in the sense that they looked very distinct from anything else that could be floating around the play area.
Not really central to the op's question but it seems like his golem math is a little off. After 4 kicked rights (each initially targeting a precuser golem, which matters since the initial target only gets the initial spell, not 1 copy for each precursor) I got a total of 83,179,974,851 precursors, and god knows how many vanilla buddies. Anyone wanna verify the total, just for interests sake?
But it only gets cast on one, which copies it one time for each other golem. The copies are not cast.
Right, but there are 1 million precursor golems in play. You cast one spell and each of the million golems sees it and goes "I better copy that!" so you end up with 1 million copy triggers, and eventually 1 million shocks per golem.
Your opponent is correct. Grave pact triggers when you sac the debaser but it doesn't get put on the stack until after you have finished activating the ability. At this point the ability is already on the stack and so the pact trigger will go on to te stack above it, and will subsequently resolve first.
yes. generally, if you exile a creature, then all creatures will cost 2 less to play, but if you exile a changeling, then all tribal cards will also cost 2 less to play.
Only if the changeling you exile has the card type "tribal." The anvil only cares about card types, not any given sub-type (such as creature types). Really there is no difference between imprinting a "creature - changeling" and say a "Creature - Hippogriff."
So as of right now the oracle text appears to say it is a colossus and not a golem. MTR 3.5 says that the oracle text wins in terms of card interpretations, but also has a clause through which the head judge can override the oracle text if an error in oracle has been discovered. So do we have an error in the oracle here? Probably. If I were to run my pre-release today I would probably run it with the card as printed. Hopefully we will here something from wizards clarifying either that there is an error in oracle or errata.
I would like to argue that 713.1b (which I can't quote ATM since I'm on my phone :-p) would apply here an so the effect created by the efreet's phasing has no meaning in the subgame, and as such can be effected by the wish.
The post lists the email address [email]investigations@dci.com[/email]. DCI.com is owned and operated by an asset management firm and is unrelated to wizards of the Coast or Hasbro.
That's from the New Phyrexia mechanics page I'm pretty sure we can be sure now ;p
Yeah, that's not the way that would work. Torpor orb stops triggers. Triggers are always formated with "When..." "Whenever..." or "At the beginning of..." Etched Monstrosity says "~enters the battle field with..." which falls under the syntax for a replacement effect. Torpor orb will not effect the monstrosity.
I think that MTR 7.3 is the controlling document here, which states "Players are not considered to own the cards until the tournament finishes or they legally drop." what it means to legally drop isn't explicitly defined, however it has been interpreted to mean that TO's can organize tournaments where players redraft rares. In such a case a player who leaves with his deck is stealing prize support. Generally speaking though, there are no restrictions on players leaving without opening their packs since the DCI can't actually stop people from doing this. Any sort of policy which attempts to force a player to do so would have to come from the store owner, and not the DCI.
I actually really like the very rare tokens they make. Whenever I opened one of the */* vampire tokens from Zendikar (that Kalitas used) it made me smile. That said, I hope they change their stance on printing emblems. It would be a little tricky, since emblems don't have a lot of the characteristics we are used to seeing (like names, colors, whatever), but I think it would definitely be workable, especially if they modeled them after the poison counters in the sense that they looked very distinct from anything else that could be floating around the play area.
Right, but there are 1 million precursor golems in play. You cast one spell and each of the million golems sees it and goes "I better copy that!" so you end up with 1 million copy triggers, and eventually 1 million shocks per golem.
Only if the changeling you exile has the card type "tribal." The anvil only cares about card types, not any given sub-type (such as creature types). Really there is no difference between imprinting a "creature - changeling" and say a "Creature - Hippogriff."