If I use Blind Seer to turn a blue spell on the stack red, that I cast, with Tibor and Lumina in play, what triggers do I get? Do I ping everything and get flying? Just get flying? Ping everything?
Your creatures will only get flying. The triggers only trigger when the spell is cast. At the time it was cast it was blue. Changing it to red later won't make Tibor and Lumia trigger again.
Perfect. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. I was somewhat uncertain because certain cards have templates which state "card (or card type) X gains Y (ability)" whereas others like Valroz and Sedris, the Traitor King simply state "card (or card type) X has Y (ability)" instead.
The term "gets" only seems to create a modifiers to p/t, and "becomes" seems to only modify a card's color(s) or type(s), but I wasn't absolutely sure if there was any functional difference or particular reason for different words being used and if "has" functions differently from "gains".
Generally, they use the word "has" over "gains" when the effect is coming from a static ability of a permanent, so the effect is around as long as the permanent is. "Gains" is used when the effect is coming from a spell or ability, and so usually the effect will have a built-in time limit (i.e. "until end of turn"). But there's no actual functional difference between the two templates.
1. Correct. After a spell or ability resolves, the active player gets priority. So Player A can cast another Omniscience before Player B can cast a spell that would destroy the first one.
2. Yes, objects on the stack resolve individually. Both players get a chance to play spells or abilities between when the searing spear resolves and when Zegana resolves.
I start a turn with a Forest, a Temple Garden and an Arbor Elf. I draw Entreat the Angels on my draw step. Can I tap for G and W from my lands, then activate Arbor Elf's untap forest ability to untap the Temple Garden and pay the remaining W to cast Entreat?
Entreat, from what I know, must be cast instantly after you draw it and reveal it if you want to cast it for its miracle cost. Since the elf's ability isn't a mana ability, I'm a little confused.
Second, you don't cast Entreat the Angels immediately after you draw and reveal it. Miracle is a static ability linked to a triggered ability. When you reveal Entreat the Angels, you trigger Miracle's triggered ability that, when it resolves, allows you to cast Entreat the Angels for its Miracle cost. However, that triggered ability goes on the stack and you have time to respond to it before it resolves. So you can tap a land, float the mana, and untap the land with Arbor Elf, all in response to the triggered ability. Then you have the mana to cast Entreat the Angels when the triggered ability resolves.
Yes. Creature spells are spells just like any other before they resolve and can be countered by counterspells. The countered creature spell will go to it's owner's graveyard.
Isn't it an enter the battlefield effect? I thought that it would go on the stack because of that. I understand that it doesn't "target," though. I meant to change the wording on that.
It's not a triggered ability (which would be formatted like "When this enters the battlefield", the key word being "When"), it is a static ability generating a replacement effect. The Clone entering the battlefield as itself is replaced by the Clone entering the battlefield as a copy of another creature. This doesn't use the stack.
I have a question regarding Priority, this came up in a Modern Match a few days ago:
Player A (my opponent) declares attack with his Glistener Elf and asks me if I got any responses. I say no and he taps it to attack, I say go ahead and he casts 2 kicked Vines of Vastwood right behind each other. So by reading your rulings, Eldaron, Player A kept his priority after casting the first Vines of Vastwood and decided to cast the second one, right? As a result I said as a response to your two spells, I play Lightning Bolt, targeting the Elf. He called a judge and told him that he was playing the first Vines of Vastwood and cast the second one only after the first resolved, which was a lie because he cast the two instants right away without asking me for responses. Well the judge decided that he was right and I lost.
How can I avoid getting in such a situation? Should I have called the judge right away? But then I would have given away the advantage he has given me by misplaying?
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Unfortunately, there's nothing you can really do here. There's a default shortcut in tournament play where if a player plays several spells in a row they are assumed to be waiting for each to resolve in turn before casting the next one unless they explicitly state otherwise. If you decline the use of the shortcut (because you want to respond to one of the spells), then the game rewinds to when you want to respond and then continues from there, meaning your opponent will be able to cast his second Vines in response to your Lightning Bolt.
Legalize it. Not just pot, but everything. Have we learned nothing from prohibition? It doesn't work. People are going to use drug whether it's legal or not.
The consumption of alcohol actually did drop during Prohibition years. Don't let the movies fool you: by that most basic of metrics, Prohibition worked.
Your source is at best misleading, and at worst out and out false. The enactment of Prohibition actually coincided with a reversal of the previous 10 years' trend of rapidly declining alcohol consumption. In fact, the years 1922 - 1929 all saw *more* alcohol consumption per capita than the year 1919, the year before Prohibition was enacted.
And while it is true that total crime decreased during prohibition, it is most assuredly *not* true that violent crime decreased. Violent crimes increased quite drastically, with homicides rising from 6 per 100,000 pre Prohibition to 10 per 100,000 in 1933, with the rate falling off precipitiously almost immediately after repeal of Prohibition.
-Do I wait for my opponent to respond to my spell or do I have to declare that I am exiling the spell for Niv to grow?
You can play Nivamgus's ability and exile the spell immediately after playing it if you like (since you get priority back after playing a spell), or you can wait for your opponent to respond. However, if you play a spell intending to exile it with Nivmagus and then pass priority and your opponent passes right back (i.e. doesn't respond), then that spell will resolve and you won't be able to exile it with Nivmagus.
I am unsure of this so I need the community to answer for me: Now on Trading Post, can I sacrifice a creature even if I do not have an artifact in the graveyard to target? Say I steal a Thragtusk via Zealous Conscripts.
Thanks again everyone!
No. You must have legal targets for a spell or ability to be able to play it.
If the creature has trample does the full damage go through? i.e. If I was being attacked with a 5/5 trampler, I block with a 2/2 then unsummon the 2/2. Do I take 3 or 5 dmg?
The full damage. You only have to assign lethal damage to any blocking creatures before you can assign the rest to your opponent. Since there are no blocking creatures (which, again, isn't the same as the attacker not being blocked), you can assign it all to your opponent.
This is basically the gist of it. In the end, it comes down to one of two scenarios:
1) Either you riffle/mash shuffled sufficiently, in which case anything you did prior is completely undone, or;
2) Whatever you did before has some effect on the outcome, in which case you are cheating.
The only way to shuffle in a legal manner is to do so in a way that completely destroys whatever state you put your deck in beforehand. Pile shuffling is useless for randomization.*
Oh, and if you think your opponent didn't shuffle correctly, call a judge. It's not up to you to attempt to correct that, and attempting to take advantage of poor shuffling (like, say, by trying to "undo" a mana weave) is also cheating.
* It's fine for counting and unsticking cards and whatnot.
This is simply wrong. Riffle shuffles preserve adjacency more than they should. Pile shuffling before riffle shuffling actually produces a *more* random deck than just riffling alone.
Not precisely (this is a recent rules change as of 2010). After blockers are declared the attacking player determines the order in which blockers will be destroyed when damage is dealt and must assign lethal damage in order of that assignment when damage is dealt.
This doesn't usually come up but it would, for instance, prevent you from assigning 1 damage to each Diregraf Ghoul and then overloading Electrickery to kill them off. You must instead pick one ghoul to deal two damage to so that it dies and you wont have any more damage to deal to the next one.
Just a quick clarification:
What he can do is overload Electrickery *before* damage is assigned, and then he can assign just one damage to each Diregraf Ghoul, because the lethal damage calculation takes into account damage that is already done to the creature.
Standard: A rotating format consisting of the current block (right now, the Return to Ravnica Block), the previous block (Innistrad - Avacyn Restored block), and the most recent core set (Magic 2013 Core Set). Also known as Type 2. Currently has no banned list.
This is slightly incorrect. It's not the most recent core set, its any core set that came out immediately after a currently legal block. For example, after M13 came out, but before Ravnica came out, both M12 and M13 were legal in Standard, because both the Scars of Mirrodin block and the Innistrad block were legal.
You can't use sudden spoiling to stop your opponent from using the ability. The best you can do is dictate when your opponent uses it.
This is because there are no special restrictions on the ability of Myojin of Night's Reach, he can activate the ability in response to you casting the spell.
And if you cast sudden spoiling whilst the Myojin of Night's Reach is still on the stack it will no be effected by the spell so will come in with its normal stats and full abilities.
Sudden Spoiling has Split Second, so no, he can't activate the Myojin's ability in response to Sudden Spoiling.
GMontag-What you fail to realize is the "Rich get more from government" is just a flawed product of the same school of thought as "Rich are parasites". The 50% is to my understanding what many Europeans pay and very much the direction the Dems have shown they want to take the US.
Except one is a factual statement, the other is a meaningless moral judgement, and they are not related at all.
Most republicans don't have a problem funding the military, and outside of that every other thing you listed is covered by direct or excise taxes so this argument is bunk.
Yeah, this isn't true. Direct and excise taxes may pay for police and courts and prisons at the local level, but most of the state level and all of the federal level is funded with income taxes. Also, sales and property taxes are largely deductible from your income taxes, so even it is even more through income taxes.
Blind Seer
Tibor and Lumia
Your creatures will only get flying. The triggers only trigger when the spell is cast. At the time it was cast it was blue. Changing it to red later won't make Tibor and Lumia trigger again.
Generally, they use the word "has" over "gains" when the effect is coming from a static ability of a permanent, so the effect is around as long as the permanent is. "Gains" is used when the effect is coming from a spell or ability, and so usually the effect will have a built-in time limit (i.e. "until end of turn"). But there's no actual functional difference between the two templates.
2. Yes, objects on the stack resolve individually. Both players get a chance to play spells or abilities between when the searing spear resolves and when Zegana resolves.
First, card tags:
Arbor Elf
Entreat the Angels
Second, you don't cast Entreat the Angels immediately after you draw and reveal it. Miracle is a static ability linked to a triggered ability. When you reveal Entreat the Angels, you trigger Miracle's triggered ability that, when it resolves, allows you to cast Entreat the Angels for its Miracle cost. However, that triggered ability goes on the stack and you have time to respond to it before it resolves. So you can tap a land, float the mana, and untap the land with Arbor Elf, all in response to the triggered ability. Then you have the mana to cast Entreat the Angels when the triggered ability resolves.
It's not a triggered ability (which would be formatted like "When this enters the battlefield", the key word being "When"), it is a static ability generating a replacement effect. The Clone entering the battlefield as itself is replaced by the Clone entering the battlefield as a copy of another creature. This doesn't use the stack.
Unfortunately, there's nothing you can really do here. There's a default shortcut in tournament play where if a player plays several spells in a row they are assumed to be waiting for each to resolve in turn before casting the next one unless they explicitly state otherwise. If you decline the use of the shortcut (because you want to respond to one of the spells), then the game rewinds to when you want to respond and then continues from there, meaning your opponent will be able to cast his second Vines in response to your Lightning Bolt.
Your source is at best misleading, and at worst out and out false. The enactment of Prohibition actually coincided with a reversal of the previous 10 years' trend of rapidly declining alcohol consumption. In fact, the years 1922 - 1929 all saw *more* alcohol consumption per capita than the year 1919, the year before Prohibition was enacted.
And while it is true that total crime decreased during prohibition, it is most assuredly *not* true that violent crime decreased. Violent crimes increased quite drastically, with homicides rising from 6 per 100,000 pre Prohibition to 10 per 100,000 in 1933, with the rate falling off precipitiously almost immediately after repeal of Prohibition.
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Yes you can do that, and yes ponder will resolve (assuming nothing else interferes), because your counterspell didn't resolve (since you exiled it).
You can play Nivamgus's ability and exile the spell immediately after playing it if you like (since you get priority back after playing a spell), or you can wait for your opponent to respond. However, if you play a spell intending to exile it with Nivmagus and then pass priority and your opponent passes right back (i.e. doesn't respond), then that spell will resolve and you won't be able to exile it with Nivmagus.
No. You must have legal targets for a spell or ability to be able to play it.
The full damage. You only have to assign lethal damage to any blocking creatures before you can assign the rest to your opponent. Since there are no blocking creatures (which, again, isn't the same as the attacker not being blocked), you can assign it all to your opponent.
This is simply wrong. Riffle shuffles preserve adjacency more than they should. Pile shuffling before riffle shuffling actually produces a *more* random deck than just riffling alone.
Just a quick clarification:
What he can do is overload Electrickery *before* damage is assigned, and then he can assign just one damage to each Diregraf Ghoul, because the lethal damage calculation takes into account damage that is already done to the creature.
This is slightly incorrect. It's not the most recent core set, its any core set that came out immediately after a currently legal block. For example, after M13 came out, but before Ravnica came out, both M12 and M13 were legal in Standard, because both the Scars of Mirrodin block and the Innistrad block were legal.
Sudden Spoiling has Split Second, so no, he can't activate the Myojin's ability in response to Sudden Spoiling.
Except one is a factual statement, the other is a meaningless moral judgement, and they are not related at all.
Yeah, this isn't true. Direct and excise taxes may pay for police and courts and prisons at the local level, but most of the state level and all of the federal level is funded with income taxes. Also, sales and property taxes are largely deductible from your income taxes, so even it is even more through income taxes.