posted April 23, 2000 12:41 AM            

1: I bolt my friend's Tim, he counterspells the bolt, I misdirect or deflect the counterspell to my misdirection or deflection...Can I do that, and if so, what happens?

2: When a card with X in its casting cost (specifically fireball/disentigrate) is forked, is the X payed for automatically in the forked version of the original spell?

3: Can I fork a Relentless Assault for 3 attack phases total? Something about that just seems odd, but I won a game like that a few days ago...

So, I know these are pretty simple questions that have probably been asked 150 times each since the cards came out, but I could still use the info...Thanks!

posted April 23, 2000 07:22 AM            

1. you bolt your opponent's tim, it goes on the stack, the bottom to be more specific, he then adds his counterspell targetting the bolt to the stack, then you add your deflection/midsirection targetting the counterspell to target the misdirection (declared on casting of the spell).

stack resolves, misdirection/deflection resolves and counterspell now targets misdirection/deflection, counterspell then attempts to resolve, finding it has no legal target, fizzles (more correctly, is countered) and then bolt resolves on the Tim.

2. here's wording for Fork

FORK
RR
Instant
Fork resolves as a copy of target sorcery or instant spell except that it doesn't copy that spell's color and you choose the copy's targets as you play Fork.

yes the X is already paid for in the casting of fork when it forks a fireball or disentigrate, it also copies buyback if its been paid for.

3. lets look at the wording on relentless assault to answer your third question.

RELENTLESS ASSAULT
2RR
Sorcery
Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. You get an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase this turn.

when u cast relentless assault and it resolves, you will have a total of 3 main phases, and 2 combat phases, if you forked the relentless assault, you end up with 4 main phases, and 3 combat phases. however, this is how it happens.. you cast relentless assault, and you fork it. stack resolves, fork resolves first, untapping your creatures and giving u the extra combat and main phase, then the relentless assault resolves, untapping your creatures and giving you yet another combat and main phase. you can attack, but unless u can untap your creatures for the third combat phase, it's basically wasted.

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posted April 24, 2000 01:27 PM            

orinn:

when you tranquility, the planar void leaves play and enter the graveyard, when it leaves play its effect is no longer active, so it wont trigger when all the enchantments hit graveyard as the voids affect is a enter graveyard triggered effect

PLANAR VOID
B
Enchantment
Whenever a card is put into a graveyard, remove that card from the game.

current oracle wording, its a triggered event that happens when void is in play (so its active) and something else hits the graveyard.

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posted April 24, 2000 04:16 PM            

ex: opponent plays a mon's goblin raider's (not that he would in the first place). can i respond by laying 4 bolts on him>?

posted April 25, 2000 12:24 AM            

selvaxri: Iakae is right.. but as to why, its because of the wording of the avatar. the words "instead of" is a replacement effect, meaning this:

take: A instead of B for example, A happens and not B

in the case of wording is A... instead is B, then B happens and not A..

its all how the language is.. but I suppose the english is clear enough to understand.

hopefully I didnt make it more confusing..

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posted April 25, 2000 07:24 PM            

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posted April 25, 2000 11:50 PM            

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posted April 28, 2000 12:23 AM            

I have an Ancient Silverback with Rancor and it attacks.. opponent blocks with a mother of runes and taps to give itself pro green..

Does trample damage go over (this is what i say)(dealing 7 to opponent) or does it get "chump blocked" (opponent says hehe.. you know who you are..)

posted April 28, 2000 07:04 AM            

here's how trample and protection works now

you have the ancient silverback with rancor
they have a mother of runes

you attack, they block and give mom pro: green, you assign combat damage. you can assign ALL 8 to the mother, and let the pro: green reduce that to 0 OR you can assign 1 to the mom and 7 to your opponent. *note you can only assign spill over only after you have assigned lethal damage to any and all blockers*
if you choose to do the latter, the 1 to the mother would be reduced to 0 due to pro: green and the 7 would be dealt to your opponent.

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same goes for cho manno and other things of the sort.

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i got opalances n other enchantment in the graveyaard (including death pit offering)

i replenish

so do opalances turn the enchantments into
creatures first then i have to sac them (deathpit)

or can i choose deathpit to enter first then opalances to escape the "sac all creatures" effect ??

posted April 28, 2000 12:21 PM            

now it says as it comes into play, the death pit along with the others are coming into play, tho you can only sac what you have in play already.. so my ruling would be no.. you dont sac anything coming in with the replenish.

deathling: that is no longer true, according to 6th edition rules, as a state based effect, when a player hits 0 or less the next time priority is given to any player, the player at 0 or less lose.

alkiser: remberance says when a creature you control is put into the graveyard (non token) you may search for a copy of it, however serra avatar's ability is a replacement affect.. so it never goes into the graveyard.. it is INSTEAD shuffled.. notice instead implies replacement.. so it never touched graveyard, it is immediately shuffled into the library.. do not pass go.. do not collect $200

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posted April 29, 2000 08:15 PM            

1. you cant cast wildfire if either you or your opponent has EXACTLY or at least four lands in play...I say you still can.

2. you can attack with just two mogg flunkies without any other creature attacking. I dont really know the answer, but I'll say you can not attack, since both of them requires another creature to attack.

please e-mail me your answer...