North Korea's antics are North Korea's fault. Always.
But it's the responsibility of the US President and other world leaders to respond to those antics and keep them from boiling over into a shooting war. Trump is very capable of screwing that part up.
This. There has been a well practiced game that has regularly been held with North Korea, with every player knowing their moves and making them with a common goal. So far the game has always ended in an honourable draw, with North Korea getting some of what it needs and the rest of the world breathing easier that that Nuclear Armageddon has ben avoided again for a while.
We now have had a new player sit down at the table that appears to be playing by a different set of rules and apparently a different set of objectives to the other players.
Whilst Trump is not responsible for this round of the game starting, he does have a responsibility to ensure it ends with out escalating either into a Kinetic war which would mean that Seoul is very likely to glow in the dark or a Cyber War which the Americans are likely to lose very badly. Unfortunately he appears to be fond of the large grandstanding actions which are almost exactly what you don't need in this situation.
You choose the amount of damage that the Volcano hellion will do when the ability comes to resolve not when it goes on the stack. By the time your opponent knows how much damage you are going to do to the target and yourself it will already have been dealt and you will already have gained the life.
If your opponent wants to stop you from gaining the life he will have to disrupt the soulbound before the ability resolves but at that point you can always choose to deal 0 damage.
I don't like the usual characterisation tha Kim Jong-un is unhinged or deranged. Its a lazy characterisation that means we dkon't have to more closely examine his motivations and can just write his actions off as a mad man doing mad things with nuclear weapons.
Taking a closer look at what is happening, what he is doing is very logical admittedly a very twisted sense of logic. Since the end of the Korean war a pattern has emerged where North Korea has run out of something important like food or other neccesities and in order to get an increase supply has rattled its sabre and then demanded concessions and supplies in exchange for not doing it again in the near future whilst looking pointedly at Seoul. The obvious implication being sod the Americans and Japanese I already have millions of innocents in range not just of rockets and missiles but with conventional artilery as well. This tactic has largely worked with the major powers not wanting to provoke first Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-um into doing anything rash.
Unfortunately now it appears that we have someone in the White house that appears to be as unpredictable as the world fears Kim Jung-un is and is using his millatry to gain favorable headlines by acting abroad to divert attention away from domestic failngs.
Also as a factual correction. North Korea have no problems blowing up nuclear bombs. The only problems they appear to have is sticking them in missiles that are capable of reaching Japan or Hawaii or the West Coast of America. If they are actually invaded, unless we manage a massive first stike that takes out their entire Nuclear aresnal Seoul is going to glow in the dark...
But after he cast the Thug, I realized there was a small problem. In order to cast my kill spell, he needed to pass priority. Meaning, he'd immediately go to combat without having a chance to draw and bestow the Nighthowler. It would have been no problem at all if we were playing two headed giant, but this was a five player free-for-all. (That's how I'm pretty sure the rules work, anyway. I'm 99% sure)
The game won't move to the next step or phase until all players pass priority over an empty stack with out any player adding anything to it. There is nothing in the scenario as you have described it that comes anywhere near bending the rules regardless of the type of game being played.
Once his thug resolves you will still have the oppertunity to cast any instant you chose and once that resolves priority will eventually pass back to the active player and they will still be in their mainphase and able to act as such including casing creatures spells and auras.
They might have had enough players, but did they have enough customers? That question you do not appear to have answered. If MTG was profitable in your area the stores that used to support and sell it would continue to do so.
For all of them to move away from selling MTG products as even a sideline and only sell comics very strongly signals that the area will not be able support a store dedicated to MTG. Unless you are able to overcome whatever issues they had, which are most likely going to be being unable to compete with Walmat in the sealed product market and being unable to get sufficient numbers of people willing to trade with them on the secondary market, you are going to have exactly the same issues but nothing to fall back on if the MTG side falls through as it did for the previous stores.
You need to do a lot more research than you appear to have done at present. Especially on your start up costs as I could very easily see you needing to sink approx 30K into the shop before you get your first customer, more if you want to stock the old cards. From there the ongoing expenses are just going to keep on mounting up.
As for the old cards you are very unlikely to get packs of old sets in sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile. If you can, avoid them like the plague, those packs are going to have been sitting around in cases unopened since those sets were in standard. If they weren't opened then it means there was not a demand for them back then and there is not going to be a market for them now. All you will do is but stock that will sit around until the 1 person in the state who wants them turns up or you can manage to convince enough people to do a retro draft/sealed event.
If you want to sell the old cards it is going to be done as singles which means you will either need to have a large enough personal collection that you are willing to sacrifice to start your stock or get lucky with people cashing out the hobby willing to sell you there collections and hoping that you have enough money to do so and they have enough valuable cards you can then sell on to make it worth your while. Your final option for this would be to purchase the old packs and open them yourself but then you are running the risk of not opening sufficient money cards to sell that you can offset against your sunk cost purchasing and opening the sealed product.
One thing that I am surprised has not been brought up.
Rules enforcement, whilst it is at the lowest level of rules enforcement with penalties more geared towards educating a player rather than punishing them if something goes wrong, they still exist.
At the start of the tournament the judge should stand up and give a quick spiel about how the tournament is going to be run, i.e you get x amount of time to open and register pools
then swap them with person x
then create your deck from the pool you received.
Round length and where the pairing are going to be placed for each round.
If you are at a large enough event to warrent more than one judge they should all be identified and hopefully easily identifiable.
During the tournament if you think anything is off or you have a rules question raise a hand and call 'judge', keep that hand up until a judge arives. Explain the situation to them/ask them the question. Don't try and fix the issue yourself. For all you know your opponnent might have been doing shady things all day and not been noticed if he is cheating. In the case of a rules query the Head Judge is the one who has the authority to issue official rulings for the purposes of that event.
If you feel that the ruling is incorrect, don't argue during the event come away and either have a look at the rules yourself or ask somewhere like here after the event.
Don't worry if it takes a long time to resolve a situation, get an answer you should get a time extension on your match to cover it.
Above all else try and have fun. And as others have said you could be looking at a 4+ hour event where whilst you aren't going to be physically active it still can be mentally draining so do what ever you can to help yourself stay awake and in the best condition.
My question was: does ALL of that happen as one event (Both Lich's Mirror and me losing after Lich's Mirror is applied), or do multiple checks result in multiple events?
With Erebos and Liches mirror it is 2 seperate events causing you to lose the game.
The first one replaced with Liches mirror doing its stuff. The second when SBA are rechecked and you are still at or below 0 life.
In most cases this is just technicallities outside of a potentially very small number of corner cases in a multiplayer game it is not relevant. You lose the game and it ends.
Okay, so two follow-up questions and a 3rd possible follow-up after this.
1. What happens if I own the Erebos?
If you own Erebos he would return under your control. As you can never be your own opponent, you would gain life.
2. Does the Lich's Mirror effect and my eventual game loss happen simultaneously, or are they two separate events since state-based actions were checked twice?
With Erebos being owned by your opponent there are 2 rounds of SBA in the first one the game sees you should lose then applies the effect on Liches mirror. After this the game instantly does another check of SBA to see if any more need to be applied and sees you at 0 life then makes you lose the game.
With out Erebos in the scenario the second round of SBA would do nothing so the game would progress to the relevant player having priority.
3. The counters are being put on the avatar as a single action so the game would see you put counters on the Avatar and the replacement effect from the constrictor would interfere and tell you to add an extra counter.
Your just going to have to get over it the way conservatives have had to get over the million times the left have cheated the system. Garland was to the left of everyone but Sotomayor, who has made it clear again and again that furthering left wing political agendas comes before the job of actually safeguarding the American peoples constitutional rights. The constitution is an incredible safeguard against tyranny but it requires people who will fight government tyranny and that's not who the left nominates, they nominate political activists who view government tyranny as an acceptable means to an end in their never ending march to transform America into anything other then America.
So you are saying the only way to support and protect the constitution was to violate the constitution?
After Eternal Witness resolves, it ETB ability triggers and is put on the stack, when this happens you need to have a choose a legal target that is already in your graveyard. So by the time you would get priority to cast when of your other spells, the ability is already on the stack.
Hope that helps.
This is incorrect.
The ETB is only put on the stack once the spell or ability that exiled it has completely resolved so the spell that caused it to leave the battlefield is in the graveyard long before the ability on Eternal witness hits the stack and needs it target declared.
This interaction has not changed since momentary blink wsa first released.
Your loop does work. Whilst the ability from Eternal witness would fire during the resolution of the spells it is not put onto the stack and targets declared until the spells have completely resolved, by which time the cards are in the graveyard so a valid target for the Witnesses ability.
1. If an opponent uses Unsummon on my Dryad Millitant. Would the unsummon get exiled by the Dryad?
No it would not. As with spells like murder the Dryad leaves the battlefield whilst unsummon is still resolving so it has gone and its static abiility has ended long before the unsummon card would leave teh stack
Presuming a creature has left the battlefield. 3 +1/+1 counters. When you have multiple replacement effects apply to the same event you chose which one to apply first then if the remainder still would apply they you apply those.
This is explicitly covered in the gatherer rulings for Winding Constrictor
Quote from gatherer »
If you control two Winding Constrictors, the number of counters placed on the artifact or creature is the original number plus two. Three Winding Constrictors adds three to the original number, and so on.
On the eve of a critical visit to Moscow at a time of high US-Russian tensions over Syria, the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, appeared to go even further, saying his country would come to the defence of innocent civilians “anywhere in the world”.
The administration had initially stressed strictly limited objectives for a cruise missile strike last week on a Syrian air force base, saying it was intended to deter the repeat of a chemical attack on Tuesday against civilians and that the focus of US efforts in Syria remains combating the Islamic State (Isis).
On Monday, however, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, widened the criteria for retaliation. “When you watch babies and children being gassed, and suffer under barrel bombs, you are instantaneously moved to action,” he said. “I think this president’s made it very clear that if those actions were to continue, further action will definitely be considered by the United States.”
On Tuesday diplomats gathered in Italy for a second day of G7 talks dominated by the war in Syria, as officials in Washington, the UK and elsewhere floated the possibility of new sanctions on the Syrian and Russian military.
US intelligence believes Assad carried out last week’s attack with the chemical agent sarin, killing dozens of civilians including children. But Spicer made the first mention of the use of barrel bombs – crude munitions that can cause indiscriminate casualties.
Pressed on whether chemical warfare as opposed to conventional warfare constitutes a red line, he replied: “I think the president’s been very clear that there were a number of lines crossed last week ... The answer is if you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people, I think you will see a response from this president. That is unacceptable.”
The White House said later that Spicer was referring to barrel bombs carrying industrial chemicals like chlorine. But that would still represent a substantial expansion of the US rules of engagement in Syria. The regime is suspected of using chlorine gas in its attacks on dozens of occasions since 2013.
Tillerson made his remarks during a visit to the site of a 1944 Nazi massacre in Italy, but they clearly referred to the Trump administration’s decision on Thursday to launch missile strikes against a Syrian airbase from which the US said a regime chemical attack had been launched against civilians in a rebel-held town.
Tillerson is in Italy for a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting dominated by discussion of western policy towards Damascus and Moscow. The UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, who cancelled his own planned visit to Moscow on Monday, said the ministers would be “discussing the possibility of further sanctions certainly on some of the Syrian military figures and indeed on some of the Russian military figures who have been involved in coordinating the Syrian military effort”.
The ministers met again early on Tuesday Morning before Tillerson flies on to Moscow. According to one G7 source, Tillerson plans to offer the Putin regime a bald choice, between cutting Bashar al-Assad loose and being rewarded with a thaw in relations with the west; or continuing to back him, and risking a Libyan-style outcome. The Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was violently deposed and killed in 2011 by rebels lent air support by Nato powers, including the UK.
Whitehall sources say Britain has been instrumental in helping to persuade the US to support the idea that Assad – and his family – must be removed from power before progress can be made. Johnson is pushing for the strongest possible conclusion, including the threat of targeted sanctions against Syrian and Russian military commanders – a proposal he judges more likely to win support than wider economic penalties against Moscow.
The decision to approve the missile strike on the Shayrat Syrian air force base marked a sharp change in direction for Donald Trump, who had furiously opposed any such intervention by the Obama administration, and had pledged an “America first” foreign policy that would focus on counter-terrorism and narrowly defined US national interests.
Trump emphasised the child victims of the poison gas in justifying the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at infrastructure at the Shayrat base, Spicer’s comments suggested the president’s concern for Syrian children extended to victims of conventional bombing too. Over half a million people have been killed in the six years of the Syrian war. Tillerson’s comments suggested that the administration was even open to humanitarian intervention elsewhere.
Speaking to journalists at the site of the 1944 massacre in the Tuscan village of Sant’Anna, the secretary of state said: “We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world.”
The remarks appeared to conflict with Tillerson’s own comments on Sunday in which he claimed the administration’s priority in Syria had not changed; it remained the defeat of Isis, and only after that could Syria’s political stability be considered. On the same today, the US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, said “getting Assad out” was one of “multiple priorities” held by the administration.
There is more at the link.
Yet more Wag the Dog. Barrel bombs were bad when Assad first used them before the initial Chemical attacks and Trump was busy saying we should not get involved. What has changed in the region now to demand such an about face??
Kahedron, do you not know that behind the lines of Assad's Syria, life is not all that bad?
I'm not sure what the relevance of this statement is. Are you trying to claim that beacuse he is nice to the people he isn't dropping bombs on he can't possibly be behind the Chemical attack? Or because he is nice to some of his people we should ignore the fact that he is a mass murderer?
You're drawing conclusions based on things I did not say. But no, nevermind. You've repeatedly ignored statements made by several people. I'm obviously not the one to change your mind either.
No I am not drawing conclusions. I am asking a couple of questions as to the relevancy of your initial question. If you want an answer to your non sequiter. I sure that there are still some areas of Syria that have not been touched by the civil war where life might be very pleasant.
Now please tell me how that is relevant that is when looking to apportion blame for a chemical attack?
This. There has been a well practiced game that has regularly been held with North Korea, with every player knowing their moves and making them with a common goal. So far the game has always ended in an honourable draw, with North Korea getting some of what it needs and the rest of the world breathing easier that that Nuclear Armageddon has ben avoided again for a while.
We now have had a new player sit down at the table that appears to be playing by a different set of rules and apparently a different set of objectives to the other players.
Whilst Trump is not responsible for this round of the game starting, he does have a responsibility to ensure it ends with out escalating either into a Kinetic war which would mean that Seoul is very likely to glow in the dark or a Cyber War which the Americans are likely to lose very badly. Unfortunately he appears to be fond of the large grandstanding actions which are almost exactly what you don't need in this situation.
If your opponent wants to stop you from gaining the life he will have to disrupt the soulbound before the ability resolves but at that point you can always choose to deal 0 damage.
Taking a closer look at what is happening, what he is doing is very logical admittedly a very twisted sense of logic. Since the end of the Korean war a pattern has emerged where North Korea has run out of something important like food or other neccesities and in order to get an increase supply has rattled its sabre and then demanded concessions and supplies in exchange for not doing it again in the near future whilst looking pointedly at Seoul. The obvious implication being sod the Americans and Japanese I already have millions of innocents in range not just of rockets and missiles but with conventional artilery as well. This tactic has largely worked with the major powers not wanting to provoke first Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-um into doing anything rash.
Unfortunately now it appears that we have someone in the White house that appears to be as unpredictable as the world fears Kim Jung-un is and is using his millatry to gain favorable headlines by acting abroad to divert attention away from domestic failngs.
Also as a factual correction. North Korea have no problems blowing up nuclear bombs. The only problems they appear to have is sticking them in missiles that are capable of reaching Japan or Hawaii or the West Coast of America. If they are actually invaded, unless we manage a massive first stike that takes out their entire Nuclear aresnal Seoul is going to glow in the dark...
The game won't move to the next step or phase until all players pass priority over an empty stack with out any player adding anything to it. There is nothing in the scenario as you have described it that comes anywhere near bending the rules regardless of the type of game being played.
Once his thug resolves you will still have the oppertunity to cast any instant you chose and once that resolves priority will eventually pass back to the active player and they will still be in their mainphase and able to act as such including casing creatures spells and auras.
For all of them to move away from selling MTG products as even a sideline and only sell comics very strongly signals that the area will not be able support a store dedicated to MTG. Unless you are able to overcome whatever issues they had, which are most likely going to be being unable to compete with Walmat in the sealed product market and being unable to get sufficient numbers of people willing to trade with them on the secondary market, you are going to have exactly the same issues but nothing to fall back on if the MTG side falls through as it did for the previous stores.
You need to do a lot more research than you appear to have done at present. Especially on your start up costs as I could very easily see you needing to sink approx 30K into the shop before you get your first customer, more if you want to stock the old cards. From there the ongoing expenses are just going to keep on mounting up.
As for the old cards you are very unlikely to get packs of old sets in sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile. If you can, avoid them like the plague, those packs are going to have been sitting around in cases unopened since those sets were in standard. If they weren't opened then it means there was not a demand for them back then and there is not going to be a market for them now. All you will do is but stock that will sit around until the 1 person in the state who wants them turns up or you can manage to convince enough people to do a retro draft/sealed event.
If you want to sell the old cards it is going to be done as singles which means you will either need to have a large enough personal collection that you are willing to sacrifice to start your stock or get lucky with people cashing out the hobby willing to sell you there collections and hoping that you have enough money to do so and they have enough valuable cards you can then sell on to make it worth your while. Your final option for this would be to purchase the old packs and open them yourself but then you are running the risk of not opening sufficient money cards to sell that you can offset against your sunk cost purchasing and opening the sealed product.
Rules enforcement, whilst it is at the lowest level of rules enforcement with penalties more geared towards educating a player rather than punishing them if something goes wrong, they still exist.
At the start of the tournament the judge should stand up and give a quick spiel about how the tournament is going to be run, i.e you get x amount of time to open and register pools
then swap them with person x
then create your deck from the pool you received.
Round length and where the pairing are going to be placed for each round.
If you are at a large enough event to warrent more than one judge they should all be identified and hopefully easily identifiable.
During the tournament if you think anything is off or you have a rules question raise a hand and call 'judge', keep that hand up until a judge arives. Explain the situation to them/ask them the question. Don't try and fix the issue yourself. For all you know your opponnent might have been doing shady things all day and not been noticed if he is cheating. In the case of a rules query the Head Judge is the one who has the authority to issue official rulings for the purposes of that event.
If you feel that the ruling is incorrect, don't argue during the event come away and either have a look at the rules yourself or ask somewhere like here after the event.
Don't worry if it takes a long time to resolve a situation, get an answer you should get a time extension on your match to cover it.
Above all else try and have fun. And as others have said you could be looking at a 4+ hour event where whilst you aren't going to be physically active it still can be mentally draining so do what ever you can to help yourself stay awake and in the best condition.
With Erebos and Liches mirror it is 2 seperate events causing you to lose the game.
The first one replaced with Liches mirror doing its stuff. The second when SBA are rechecked and you are still at or below 0 life.
In most cases this is just technicallities outside of a potentially very small number of corner cases in a multiplayer game it is not relevant. You lose the game and it ends.
If you own Erebos he would return under your control. As you can never be your own opponent, you would gain life.
With Erebos being owned by your opponent there are 2 rounds of SBA in the first one the game sees you should lose then applies the effect on Liches mirror. After this the game instantly does another check of SBA to see if any more need to be applied and sees you at 0 life then makes you lose the game.
With out Erebos in the scenario the second round of SBA would do nothing so the game would progress to the relevant player having priority.
So you are saying the only way to support and protect the constitution was to violate the constitution?
This is incorrect.
The ETB is only put on the stack once the spell or ability that exiled it has completely resolved so the spell that caused it to leave the battlefield is in the graveyard long before the ability on Eternal witness hits the stack and needs it target declared.
This interaction has not changed since momentary blink wsa first released.
No it would not. As with spells like murder the Dryad leaves the battlefield whilst unsummon is still resolving so it has gone and its static abiility has ended long before the unsummon card would leave teh stack
Presuming a creature has left the battlefield. 3 +1/+1 counters. When you have multiple replacement effects apply to the same event you chose which one to apply first then if the remainder still would apply they you apply those.
This is explicitly covered in the gatherer rulings for Winding Constrictor
There is more at the link.
Yet more Wag the Dog. Barrel bombs were bad when Assad first used them before the initial Chemical attacks and Trump was busy saying we should not get involved. What has changed in the region now to demand such an about face??
No I am not drawing conclusions. I am asking a couple of questions as to the relevancy of your initial question. If you want an answer to your non sequiter. I sure that there are still some areas of Syria that have not been touched by the civil war where life might be very pleasant.
Now please tell me how that is relevant that is when looking to apportion blame for a chemical attack?