At Competitive and Professional level events players must always shuffle their opponents’ decks at the beginning of games. The Head Judge can mandate the shuffling of opponents’ decks at Regular Level Events as long as he or she announces this at the beginning of the tournament. If a shuffling effect takes place during gameplay, players may shuffle and must cut their opponents’ decks after the shuffling effect is completed.

Once players shuffle and/or cut their opponents’ decks, the cards are returned to their original owners. If the opponent has shuffled the player’s deck, that player may make one final cut.

Also note that a cut is simply splitting the deck in two and placing the top half under the bottom half. Anything more is considered a shuffle. I couldn't seem to locate this definition any longer in the floor/game rules but it should still hold true.

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Originally posted by Tim Shaffer:
Another harms way question, if I cast safe passage and harms way, can I choose to redirect the 2 damage before it gets prevented.

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He would either deal 1 combat damage and then die without using his ability.
Or he would block a creature and then sac himself to do 1 damage to something.

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Originally posted by gcowhsu:
Under the new rules the Morhpling got nerfed since lethal damage will kill creatures and there is no longer a damage stack with combat. Is this true with all sacrifice creatures as well like Mogg fanatic. With the new rules will he be able to kill a creature with 2 toughness?

He would either deal 1 combat damage and then die without using his ability.
Or he would block a creature and then sac himself to do 1 damage to something.

Obviously there are a ton of creatures with abilities like this and they will all be nerfed?

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There are no rules changes with the creatures. Combat damage simply doesn't use the stack. If they take lethal damage they are dead before you would receive priority.

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Originally posted by caquaa:
There are no rules changes with the creatures. Combat damage simply doesn't use the stack. If they take lethal damage they are dead before you would receive priority.

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Originally posted by gcowhsu:
So then mogg fanatic can not do more then 1 point of damage because it would already be in the graveyard before you can use his sacrifice ability?

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Originally posted by Lantis:
I use Twincast on a Bant Charm. Do I get to select which ability on the Bant Charm to use?

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503.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics (name, mana cost, color, card type, supertype, subtype, expansion symbol, rules text, power, toughness, loyalty) and, for an object on the stack, choices made when playing it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether a kicker cost was paid, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on)

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Originally posted by caquaa:
503.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics (name, mana cost, color, card type, supertype, subtype, expansion symbol, rules text, power, toughness, loyalty) and, for an object on the stack, choices made when playing it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether a kicker cost was paid, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on)

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Originally posted by Lantis:
Thanks. So basically the mode can't be changed. I have to use whatever the opponent picked.

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That is correct.

Card Text:
As Runed Halo enters the battlefield, name a card.
You have protection from the chosen name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

Note how runed halo says that you cant be targeted by the named card. paying 5+ makes banefire uncounterable, and not preventable. but since halo says you cant be targeted, he cant cast banefire on you.

Vampiric tutor + Wild Ricochet

Vampiric tutor doesnt target a player or specificly target a card in the deck. it just says you(refering to the player casting) search for a card.

since it doesnt target in any way whatsoever, you cannot cast Wild Ricochet to copy the vampiric tutor

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Originally posted by JackSpade:
Hello all, two questions that came up during some casual games the other day.
If a player plays Runed Halo naming Banefire. Can another player later play a Banefire making x > 4 and hit the player with the Runed Halo?

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No, because runed halo grants protection, which means you can't be targeted by the banefire in the first place.

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And if I Wild Ricochet my opponents Vampiric tutor, he still gets to tutor and then i get a tutor of my own correct? Or can I get the effect twice?
Thanks for the help.

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Actually, you'll tutor first because of the way that things resolve. But you won't get to tutor twice because V. Tutor has no targets that you could potentially change.

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Originally posted by JackSpade:
And if I Wild Ricochet my opponents Vampiric tutor, he still gets to tutor and then i get a tutor of my own correct? Or can I get the effect twice?
Thanks for the help.

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You cannot get the effect twice. Because Vamp doesn't target, you can't switch your opponent's to target you, but based on the wording of Wild Richochet, the Vamp is a legal target for it.

Once Ricochet resolves, your copy of Vamp goes on the stack and will resolve first. Then your opponent's does.

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Originally posted by Gigamaster89:
Terror targets my creature, I respond by sliding it out with Astral Slide. Does the Terror have to re-choose it's target or does it fizzle out?

Does Gilded Light protect my creatures too or is "you" referring to the player itself only? (direct)

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1. Terror question: The terror "fizzles." Fizzle isn't an actual term that is used, but everyone knows what it means so no worries. What happens is that Terror targets your creature. Priority is then passed to you and you are given a chance to respond. You respond with sliding out the creature. Terror now checks to see if its initial target is still viable, and since it is not, the terror resolves but nothing is destroyed.

2. The "you" in Gilded Light refers only to the player himself/herself.

Someone else might be able to give a little bit more technically correct response.

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Originally posted by Cab:
Terror now checks to see if its initial target is still viable, and since it is not, the terror resolves but nothing is destroyed.

Someone else might be able to give a little bit more technically correct response.

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Terror never actually resolves. Its "countered upon resolution" aka fizzles.

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Same goes for Inkwell Leviathan. Does the shroud prevent the Animate Dead to become attached to it so they both would be put back into the graveyard?

(Oracle is down at the moment )

thanks in advance

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actualy last week i had to animate dead an akroma so i could kill one that was in play

Ghostly prison:

Does it stack? IE, if I have 2 of them in play does my opponent need to pay (4) for each attacking creature?

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Originally posted by PortlisX:
Super simple rules question because I'm a complete noob when it comes to actually PLAYING magic these days.

Ghostly prison:

Does it stack? IE, if I have 2 of them in play does my opponent need to pay (4) for each attacking creature?

My friends are trying to tell me that it does not, and even if I have 4 ghostly prisons in play that they still only need to pay (2). I think they are wrong. Are they?

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They stack.

suppose I have a creature into play that I've reanimated with Animate Dead. then my opponent destroys the creature or I need to sac it somehow. Does the Animate Dead trigger again and recur my creature (a bit, but not the same, like the Worldgorger Dragon combo), or has that effect passed?

probably knowing the answer, but still hoping.

Thanks in advance

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