How are prerelease sealed decks going to work when Sinker comes around? RTR will doubtless be all RTR + 1 guild booster, Gatecrash can do the same, but what about sinker? 6 Sinker boosters? 3 sinker, 1 RTR, 1 GTC, 1 sinker guild booster?
I don't see it working that well since sinker is a small set and they have in the past been 50:50 with the last big set... but there will be two big sets...
It was stated at the Comic-Con panel that Sinker sealed would be two of each of RTR, GTC, and Sinker. Sinker draft will be 1 of each, in the order Sinker, GTC, RTR.
I definitely plan to play in more than one event. This prerelease format has given me a good reason to do so. I'll pick Izzet in the first one I play, and in any others...I'll probably start with Golgari and move on from there.
In 1999, Vintage was fun enough that even decks without the Power 9 could be reasonably competitive at times. I nearly top 8'd a Vintage tournament in 2000 despite having very few cards from before Ice Age.
Standard...ugh. Replenish scared me out of Standard and into Extended, Legacy, and Vintage instead. Then Rebels came along later on...
Which is important, because I've been fumbling around with GCR.
Well, it made sense, at least. I was also expecting it to be GCR, but I suppose GTC works too. Hopefully this doesn't lead to people speculating that the 3-letter code for Sinker will also have T as its middle letter (RTR, GTC, ...?).
In any case, here are the relevant images of the logo and the expansion symbol:
1) When a permanent is "blinked" (which is what Cloudshift does), it is exiled, then immediately returns to the battlefield. It comes back as a completely new object with no memory of its previous existence. It won't be a 5/5 artifact creature, and it will no longer be able to track the creatures it exiled before it was blinked.
2) The creatures won't come back for the same reason.
Your rules guru was correct. You can respond to Lightning Helix by turning your Willbender face up and changing its target to your opponent. However, you can only redirect to a planeswalker non-combat damage from a source you control. Willbender's ability changes the target, but not the controller of the source, so you can redirect it to your opponent, but not to a planeswalker he controls.
I think it actually would be able to counter it as accordig to gatherer it's cmc is 1 and x= 0 if Galvanoth revealed it.
While that is the case if you cast Bonfire of the Damned without paying its mana cost due to an effect such as Galvanoth's, as any X in the mana cost would be 0, this isn't the case when casting it normally.
When you cast a spell with an in its mana cost, all X's on the card have the same value, and the converted mana cost of that card does include the value of X while the spell is on the stack. The value of X in a card's mana cost is 0 in all zones other than the stack as well as outside the game (hence why Gatherer indicates a CMC of 1).
For example, a Bonfire of the Damned cast with X = 2 would have a CMC of 5. A Bonfire of the Damned cast for its miracle cost with X = 2 still has a CMC of 5, since all X's on the card have the same value. In any case, Mental Misstep can never counter it unless X is 0.
Yes. Smite the Monstrous checks to see if the targeted creature has power 4 or greater on resolution. When Smite the Monstrous goes to resolve, it will see that its target does not have power 4 or greater, and will be countered on resolution.
I disagree, I dont feel Jopa did wrong here. He reported to who he was suppose to and fired the man off his staff.
Sandusky wasn't fired. He was allowed to retire, given $168,000, and granted emeritus rank at the university, with full access to all its facilities for himself and his "charity". Paterno and the staff actually didn't do anything at all after the first assaults in 1998.
It means what it says; it's a replacement effect. Guile's ability changes "counter [some spell]" into "exile [some spell] and you may play that card without paying its mana cost". For the purposes of things that look at whether a spell was countered, if Guile's replacement effect applies to a given event, then the spell was never actually countered.
For example, if Player B has Guile on the battlefield and Player A casts Lightning Bolt, and Player B responds with Delay, then the Lightning Bolt will not be exiled with three time counters on it and gain suspend; instead it will be exiled and Player B can cast it without paying its mana cost. Player B has to choose whether to cast it then, though, as that's the only time s/he can do so. If s/he doesn't, it just remains exiled.
- If two legendary permanents with the same name are on the battlefield, all are put into their owners' graveyards as a state-based action. This is not destruction - "destroyed" implies that one or more of them can be regenerated, which they can't.
- If two or more planeswalkers with the same planeswalker type (not necessarily the same name) are on the battlefield, all are put into their owners' graveyards as a state-based action. Again, this isn't destruction. For example, as you stated, if you control Garruk, Primal Hunter and your opponent puts Garruk Relentless onto the battlefield, both will be put into their owners' graveyards as they both have the same planeswalker type (Planeswalker - Garruk).
It was stated at the Comic-Con panel that Sinker sealed would be two of each of RTR, GTC, and Sinker. Sinker draft will be 1 of each, in the order Sinker, GTC, RTR.
Standard...ugh. Replenish scared me out of Standard and into Extended, Legacy, and Vintage instead. Then Rebels came along later on...
Well, it made sense, at least. I was also expecting it to be GCR, but I suppose GTC works too. Hopefully this doesn't lead to people speculating that the 3-letter code for Sinker will also have T as its middle letter (RTR, GTC, ...?).
In any case, here are the relevant images of the logo and the expansion symbol:
The only new information here is that the set's 3-letter code is GTC, but there are clearer images of the new guild symbols/watermarks.
2) The creatures won't come back for the same reason.
While that is the case if you cast Bonfire of the Damned without paying its mana cost due to an effect such as Galvanoth's, as any X in the mana cost would be 0, this isn't the case when casting it normally.
When you cast a spell with an
For example, a Bonfire of the Damned cast with X = 2 would have a CMC of 5. A Bonfire of the Damned cast for its miracle cost with X = 2 still has a CMC of 5, since all X's on the card have the same value. In any case, Mental Misstep can never counter it unless X is 0.
Sandusky wasn't fired. He was allowed to retire, given $168,000, and granted emeritus rank at the university, with full access to all its facilities for himself and his "charity". Paterno and the staff actually didn't do anything at all after the first assaults in 1998.
Well, no, it just replaces the counterspell's effect on resolution with "exile that spell". I edited my post with an example.
For example, if Player B has Guile on the battlefield and Player A casts Lightning Bolt, and Player B responds with Delay, then the Lightning Bolt will not be exiled with three time counters on it and gain suspend; instead it will be exiled and Player B can cast it without paying its mana cost. Player B has to choose whether to cast it then, though, as that's the only time s/he can do so. If s/he doesn't, it just remains exiled.
Not quite. To clarify:
- If two legendary permanents with the same name are on the battlefield, all are put into their owners' graveyards as a state-based action. This is not destruction - "destroyed" implies that one or more of them can be regenerated, which they can't.
- If two or more planeswalkers with the same planeswalker type (not necessarily the same name) are on the battlefield, all are put into their owners' graveyards as a state-based action. Again, this isn't destruction. For example, as you stated, if you control Garruk, Primal Hunter and your opponent puts Garruk Relentless onto the battlefield, both will be put into their owners' graveyards as they both have the same planeswalker type (Planeswalker - Garruk).