posted November 20, 2000 01:51 PM            

Iguanaonastick: The cheetah's ability and the cloak's ability both trigger when damage is dealt so you gain 8

reinhart:
1)Yes
2)All damage is dealt at the same time so you are at one life and the wolves die.

datfat_1: Not sure... I would look around www.wizards.com/magic under the variants thing. It might be there, but i am too lazy to check (have to answer more questions)

Selvaxri: Let me get back to you. I need to look over a few rules (and my ride mas here 10 min ago, hehe). Should be able to answer you tommorow.

juzammn: Yup, the pandemonium triggers whenever a creature comes into play. That is why things like pandeburst work.

Archreaper:
Ankh of Mishra
Text(5th/6th): Whenever a land comes into play, ~this~ deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Anhk Tide does work

mkl: You draw three cards from brainstorm, then choose any two cards in your hand and put them back. Isn't that what it says on the card?
Yes, you can do that.

BlazingSpceter: You can order the way the tangle wire's effects are put on the stack so that the counter gets removed, then you tap. You have to put the tap ability on the stack first, thne the remove a counter ability. When the stack begins to resolve you will remove a counter, then check to see how man counters are on the wire and tap that many artifacts, creatures, and lands. There has been no errata on tangle wire. Removing the counter before the tap is what makes it so good (and the fact that you can tap the wire and it still works... go 6th edition rules!!!)

I will try to answer the one question I did not know the answer to tommorow... it may take me a few min to find the answer. Maybe someone (coolio or guenhwyvar only) could save me some time

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posted November 21, 2000 11:52 AM            

I have a thornscape master, he has a stormscape master. He taps it to make me lose 2 life, in response i tap it and 2 red to deal 2 damage to it. What is the result?

I have a nightscape master, he has a stormscape master. He taps it to make me lose 2 life, in response i tap it to return the other master to the owner's hand. what is the result?

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posted November 21, 2000 03:16 PM            

Thrash Golem-Here's what happens in first example:

He puts the drain life ability on the stack, it becomes a pseudospell. You then put the damage ability on the stack and it too becomes a pseudospell. Barring any other effects, the stack begins to resolve. Your ability goes off, and deals 2 damage to the opposing master. The master goes poof. But his ability, which became a pseudospell, is still on the stack. Removing the source of an ability does not remove the ability if the ability is already on the stack. So the net result is that your ability kills the opposing master, and you lose 2 life and your opponent gains 2 life.

You can use the same reasoning to answer the 2nd example.

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posted November 23, 2000 12:36 AM         

C.5 - Step 4: Combat Damage
C.5.10 - The damage sharing ability of Banding reverses the normal rule for who decides how to divide damage. If there is one or more blockers for a given attacker, and one of those blockers has Banding, then the defending player decides how the attacking creature's damage is divided among the blockers. If there is one or more attackers blocked by a single blocker, and at least one of the attacking creatures has Banding, then the attacking player decides how to divide the blocking creature's damage among the attacking creatures. [D'Angelo 99/05/01]

So you could assign all the damage from the FoN to the hero and not have to take any trample damage.

posted November 23, 2000 06:01 PM            

If I treachery a balduvian horde, do I have to discard a card at random?

posted November 23, 2000 07:45 PM            

My question is this:

Does the removal of the fade counter trigger the Saproling Burst's ability or is that 2 seporate things?

LMK Soon!! thanks!!

posted November 27, 2000 09:03 AM            

gzeiger: Killjoy is right.

scrubby: You discard when it comes into play. If it is countered then it didn't come into play.

When you play treachery the horde switches controlers. It isn't coming into play so no discard needed.

BlackStorm: The ability is given to the creature (which doesn't matter). This ability checks when ever you have priority and that will happen before you have a chance to do anything after the fade counter is removed. You would have to do something with the creatures before the counter is gone because after it is gone they are dead.

maxbishop: Actually it is a static ability
It happens as soon as you tap out and recieve priority. There really isn't anything you opponent could do before it gets bigger.

Aya Brea: The blessing's ability gets put on the stack so it waits for the oath to get done.

Selvaxri: Sorry I haven't gotten back to you. I just never have the time (or I forget) while I am online to do the research about your question. The rulings for aluren say that you still have to pay for effects such as gloom so I would assume that you could also pay for effects such as kicker. I also remember that medallions reduced buyback so I would believe that they would reduce kicker also in any condition. These rulings are not based on anything but my best guesses. I would say you should e-mail coolio and ask him specifically.

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posted November 27, 2000 10:28 AM            

Do I declare a spell before casting it, or do I need the mana in my pool before I can declare it for Lion's Eye Diamond? Meaning, if I declare a Ball Lightning, putting that card in limbo, then use the Lion's Eye to get the mana, do I still get the Ball or do I sac the Lion's Eye first then declare the Ball except, it being in my hand, gets discarded?

I know I didn't ask that very well, but it's a weird question.

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posted November 27, 2000 07:43 PM            

If my opponent Obliterates, can I Thwart, Daze, Absorb, or Undermine it just for the sake of the alternate ability/cost? As in for Thwart, bouncing 3 Islands back, Absorb, gain 3 life, Undermine, opponent loses 3 life?

I believe I can, but I just wanted to make sure.

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posted November 28, 2000 02:20 AM         

My friend stripped his opponent's taiga to which his opponent wasted his strip, ultimately to try and negate the strip's effect. However, i thought because of this ruling, that the strip would still affect the taiga:

T.4.4 - When announcing an ability, put a "pseudospell" on the stack which has a copy of the text and color of the permanent generating the ability. [CompRules 99/04/23] This is like putting an invisible copy of the card on the stack.

posted November 28, 2000 09:25 AM            

A: Yes. "Can't be countered" just means that if an effect would counter the spell, it
fails to do so. The countering spell still resolves normally, but the Obliterate spell
isn't countered.

killjoy72:
A.2 - Activated Abilities
A.2.6 - Once activated, the ability exists independently of the card or token which generated it. It exists on the stack as a psuedospell. Destruction or removal of the source after that time will not affect the ability. [CompRules 99/04/23]

How about that rule instead
I think that answers your question and you now have proof that you are right
Also the stripmine is gone as soon as it is activated because the ability requires sac to activate so there is no strip for the waste to target anyway.

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posted November 28, 2000 10:07 AM            

The text of the card reads:

quote:

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Fading 7
Remove a fade counter from Saproling Burst: Put a green Saproling creature token into play. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst."
When Saproling Burst leaves play, destroy all tokens put into play with Saproling Burst. They can't be regenerated.

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And the errata on the card says:

quote:

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Fading 7
Remove a fade counter from ~this~: Put a green Saproling creature token into play. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of fade counters on Saproling Burst."
When ~this~ leaves play, destroy all tokens put into play with ~this~. They can't be regenerated.

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The ability that the Sparoling get with the errata says "Saproling Burst" not "~this~". Does that mean that If I had a Saproling that was made from a burst with 2 Fade counters on it and I also had just played another Saproling Burst, does the Saproling token become a 7/7 or does it stay a 2/2? Please include a rule or two to prove your point. Thanks!!

BTW, I found the errata at this site: http://www.activesw.com/~sdangelo/magic/rule-cards-S.html

posted November 28, 2000 11:20 AM            

I also believe there to be a rule that states something along the lines of, " when a card says it's own name it is refering to itself and not other copies of the card with the same name". I just couldn't find it anywhere (maybe it was removed). If you want to waste someone's time then waste yours, not mine

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If you play Show and Tell and both players play a Sliver Queen, what happens?

If I use Temporal Aperture and get a card with Kicker, is the Kicker also free?

posted November 28, 2000 12:43 PM            

Silvertine:
1) They both die
K.17.2 - Only one legendary permanent of a given name can be in play at a time. If a legendary permanent enters play when another legendary permanent of that name is already in play, the new one is put into its owner's graveyard. If more than one of the same name enters play at the same time, then all of them are put into their owner's graveyards. This is done as a state-based effect (see Rule T.11). CompRules 99/04/23]

2) No, the kicker is not free but you can pay for it. That is the way I interpret it until told otherwise.

What is with all the kicker questions? Gee, I actually have to think

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