For the most part, all mechanics they make now they try to leave it so they can revisit them at some point in the future if they want.
This isn't the first they've mentioned potential reuse for, and this, like those other cases, doesn't actually imply that they've got a future set in-mind for its return, merely that if the perfect chance arises, it is available.
Green is more about destruction and selfishness then many people think.
Sure, green likes growth, but the growth has to be on *their* terms, and in *their* image.
Green will happily destroy something in order to build something upon it.
Sure, the Gruul aren't really 'building' so much as 'squatting', but the principle is there. They oppose the growth that exists in a place, and will happily destroy it into a more ... pleasing form.
Just before you would recieve priority after it becomes a creature, SBE's are evaluated .. at which time it is still of course a 0/0 and you've had no chance to use the shell, and it will go to your graveyard.
Well, Savage Twister isn't really in flavor with the color pie. It should be all red, not green, if it would take out creatures. Although there is Hurricane, which also damages players.
It's a long time since we have seen green direct damage against non-flying creatures (Unyaro Bee Sting anyone?)
Twister would be in flavor of the colour pie.
While red does get to blast all creature (eg, pyroclasm, rain of embers, when you start trying to do more obscene amounts of damage, ie, a X spell, red is more likely to only hit non fliers.
On the flip side, Green is very capable of blasting fliers out of the sky (needle storm).
So, combining a X spell for both red and green, seems entirely plausible for it to nuke both fliers and non-fliers. ... Consider it a combination of channelling jiwari, the earth aflame and arashi, the sky asunder
The spirit links only trigger when damage is actually dealt.
So, you take 30 damage, the game evaluates the game state, see's you having 0 or less life, and you lose the game before the trigger even hits the stack.
Essentially yeh.
Its still considered attacking because we are in the combat phase, it was declared as an attacker, and nothing has removed it from combat.
Once attacking, an attacking creature will remain as an attacking creature till end of combat phase.
Decimate
If there isn't legal targets in the first place, you cannot play the spell at all.
If, after you play decimate (will all legal targets to start with), one or more targets become illegal, decimate still does the best it can and will destroy all remaining targets.
With your example card, it requires 2 targets to be played, a artifact, and a creature. You don't decide whether the 'may' part will be used until the spell resolves, but to be played in the first place, you would need both targets.
Counterspell cannot be played with no targets, and no spell can target itself.
For the most part, all mechanics they make now they try to leave it so they can revisit them at some point in the future if they want.
This isn't the first they've mentioned potential reuse for, and this, like those other cases, doesn't actually imply that they've got a future set in-mind for its return, merely that if the perfect chance arises, it is available.
Has there ever been 2 before?.
Sure, green likes growth, but the growth has to be on *their* terms, and in *their* image.
Green will happily destroy something in order to build something upon it.
Sure, the Gruul aren't really 'building' so much as 'squatting', but the principle is there. They oppose the growth that exists in a place, and will happily destroy it into a more ... pleasing form.
Just before you would recieve priority after it becomes a creature, SBE's are evaluated .. at which time it is still of course a 0/0 and you've had no chance to use the shell, and it will go to your graveyard.
I mean, i like LD in general, i'd make use of such a card .. but that is just so very wrong.
Twister would be in flavor of the colour pie.
While red does get to blast all creature (eg, pyroclasm, rain of embers, when you start trying to do more obscene amounts of damage, ie, a X spell, red is more likely to only hit non fliers.
On the flip side, Green is very capable of blasting fliers out of the sky (needle storm).
So, combining a X spell for both red and green, seems entirely plausible for it to nuke both fliers and non-fliers. ... Consider it a combination of channelling jiwari, the earth aflame and arashi, the sky asunder
The spirit links only trigger when damage is actually dealt.
So, you take 30 damage, the game evaluates the game state, see's you having 0 or less life, and you lose the game before the trigger even hits the stack.
Card tags added.
There we go, much better.
Its still considered attacking because we are in the combat phase, it was declared as an attacker, and nothing has removed it from combat.
Once attacking, an attacking creature will remain as an attacking creature till end of combat phase.
If there isn't legal targets in the first place, you cannot play the spell at all.
If, after you play decimate (will all legal targets to start with), one or more targets become illegal, decimate still does the best it can and will destroy all remaining targets.
With your example card, it requires 2 targets to be played, a artifact, and a creature. You don't decide whether the 'may' part will be used until the spell resolves, but to be played in the first place, you would need both targets.
Counterspell cannot be played with no targets, and no spell can target itself.