posted September 26, 2001 11:30 AM            

If a creature is regenerated it does not go to the graveyard, so any enchantments remain on it.

eiriklarsen - You can target any spell you want, including your own. If you mean targeting the Counterspell with itself, however, this is not legal. The last step in the declaration of a spell is placing the card on the stack. Counterspell can only target cards on the stack, so at the time you would have to declare its target, it is not a legal target.

posted September 26, 2001 11:47 AM            

"The last step in the declaration of a spell is placing the card on the stack. Counterspell can only target cards on the stack. For the same reason, Absorb may not be Misdirected to target itself."

But when you Misdirect the Absorb and choose a new target for it, why can't you choose Absorb itself as a target? Absorb is on the stack at the time you play Misdirect.

Is it so that when you Misdirect and choose a new target for a spell, the whole casting of the spell is redone from the point of choosing target(s)? If so; when a (counter)spell is Misdirected, is it temporarily removed from the stack until it's new target has been chosen, so that it can't target itself?

I'm having big trouble understanding this part of the rules, and so does a lot of my friends too. I would be very happy if you clarified it.

posted September 26, 2001 12:16 PM            

I'm not havin any luck finding stuff in the rulebook. The best I can do is the Crystal Keep rulings summary:

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posted October 01, 2001 06:17 PM            

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Originally posted by Ironhorse75:
Can Nimble Mongoose be countered? Blurred Mongoose says it cannot be countered and cannot be target of spells or abilities. Nimble just says it cannot be target of spells or abilities. Isn't countering it making it a target of a spell or ability?

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A lot of cards say that they can't be the target of spells or abilities, but that means they still can be countered since that effect does not take place until the spell successfully resolves...unless it specifically says it can't be countered by spells or abilities, then it can be countered.

posted October 09, 2001 12:49 PM            

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Originally posted by Vipertgo781:
Hey. I was wondering if you could pump morphling's toughness past 6 if you have enough mana. I mean making it a 0/7, 0/8, etc. I'd prefer if coolio answered this one as he is a certified judge and I need to show this as my local store.

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You can if you have enough mana, in theory, you're pumping it to a -1/7 and a -2/8, but since negative power is useless, we just think of it as an 0/7 or an 0/8

Lets say i have 2 Ember Beast (cant attack alone) can both of them attack ?
My friend tells me that is something like this... First you choose attackers... 2 Ember Beast, then you "pay cost" for attacking i.e. tap and in the ember chase looking for more attackers and then 1 of the ember beast look at the other one and think "hey another attacker, yay !" so they both attack.. or are both I and my friend VERY WRONG ?

And another kinda hard question... what is combat dmg ?
If i have Graceful Antelope with Psionic Gift
and someone attack me can i then use my Antelope to "snipe" him and "give" him a plain ?
I think so... i mean its dmg and its during the combat step... combat dmg... my friend dont think so, he thinks that combat dmg is the damage that creatures deal eual to thier power to a creature or player...(yet the antilope does 1 dmg just like the snipe )

ohh and to make it even harder... at the "lets pay for attacking" thing... that I think exist... ou can play instants right.. like tapping them with a Bend. Trapper, can you then "snipe" with the anitlope ?

posted October 09, 2001 01:59 PM            

Combat damage refers only to damage dealt by the following game rules, not to any other damage that is merely dealt during the combat phase:
310. Combat Damage Step

310.1. First the active player announces how each attacking creature will assign its combat damage.
Then the defending player announces how each blocking creature will assign its combat
damage. (See also rule 502.2, "First Strike.") A player may divide a creature's combat damage
as he or she chooses among the legal recipients. Dividing combat damage is subject to the
following restrictions:

310.1a Each attacking creature and each blocking creature will assign combat damage equal to
its power.

310.1b An unblocked creature will assign all its combat damage to the defending player.

310.1c A blocked creature will assign combat damage, divided as its controller chooses, to the
creatures blocking it. If no creatures are currently blocking it (if, for example, they were
destroyed or removed from combat), it will assign no combat damage.

310.1d A blocking creature will assign combat damage, divided as its controller chooses (no
fractions), to the attacking creatures it's blocking. If it isn't currently blocking any
creatures (if, for example, they were destroyed or removed from combat), it will assign no
combat damage.

310.2. All assignments of combat damage go on the stack as though they were a single pseudospell.
Then the active player receives priority to play spells and abilities.

310.3. Although combat-damage assignments go on the stack, they aren't spells or abilities, so they
can't be countered.

310.4. Combat damage resolves as though it were a pseudospell. When it resolves, it's dealt as
originally assigned. This happens even if the creature dealing damage is no longer in play, its
power has changed, or the creature receiving damage has left combat. (Note that the source of
the damage is the creature as it currently exists, or as it most recently existed if it is no longer in
play.) If a creature that was supposed to receive damage is no longer in play or is no longer a
creature, the damage assigned to it isn't dealt. After combat damage finishes resolving, the
active player gets priority.

The short version of all that is that combat damage is damage dealt by one creature to another as the result of a block, or damage dealt to a player because a creature was not blocked.

Your Ember Beasts may attack together for the reason stated in your post.

If a Benalish Trapper is used on your Antelope, you may respond by playing its sniping ability before the Trapper's ability resolves.