Can I use cards like Steel Overseer from the Elspeth vs Tezzeret decks in tournament play?

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Originally posted by MeddlingMage:
This is an easy question, I'm sure, but it's early and I'm at work and can't look it up because of work's filter( but motl comes up, go figure).

Can I use cards like Steel Overseer from the Elspeth vs Tezzeret decks in tournament play?

~MM

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Yes. As long as the cards have a magic back and black or white border, they're fine. Promos are legal in the same formats the normal version of the same card is.

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Originally posted by stu55:
Ill-Gotten Gains- So both players discard. Who picks their hand first, does it get revealed?

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Active player chooses first. Yes, they're being chosen from a public zone, so the choices will be known.

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101.4. If multiple players would make choices and/or take actions at the same time, the active player (the player whose turn it is) makes any choices required, then the next player in turn order (usually the player seated to the active player’s left) makes any choices required, followed by the remaining nonactive players in turn order. Then the actions happen simultaneously. This rule is often referred to as the “Active Player, Nonactive Player (APNAP) order” rule.
Example: A card reads “Each player sacrifices a creature.” First, the active player chooses a creature he or she controls. Then each of the nonactive players, in turn order, chooses a creature he or she controls. Then all creatures chosen this way are sacrificed simultaneously.

101.4a If an effect has each player choose a card in a hidden zone, such as his or her hand or library, those cards may remain face down as they’re chosen. However, each player must clearly indicate which face-down card he or she is choosing.

101.4b A player knows the choices made by the previous players when he or she makes his or her choice, except as specified in 101.4a.

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You look at your top five cards of your library. If you elect not to spend any life to put those five on the bottom of the library and continue, when you put those top five back on the top of the library are you allowed to re-order them or do they have to go back in the same order?

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Originally posted by MeddlingMage:
If my opponent has in play darksteel forge and Mycosynth Lattice making all permanents artifacts and thus indestructable can tezzerret the seeker stay alive w/ 0 loyalty counter and can he go into the negative?

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Originally posted by SageShadows:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by MeddlingMage:
If my opponent has in play darksteel forge and Mycosynth Lattice making all permanents artifacts and thus indestructable can tezzerret the seeker stay alive w/ 0 loyalty counter and can he go into the negative?

~MM

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Originally posted by SageShadows:
Correct me if I'm wrong, anybody!

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Thanks for answering that question, SageShadows. The only thing that concerns me is what I quoted. I know we don't get every question right the first time (though we do get nearly all)-- and that statistically I'm probably the worst offender, but when you phrase your answer like you're not sure you're right, it's better to not answer the question. From the first post:

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If you are going to answer a question, please be 100% sure that your answer is correct. If you are just guessing or *think* you know the answer, keep it to yourself. There are plenty of judges and people who will know it correctly, and if multiple answers are given, it just confuses the person who asked.

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I recommend staying away from non-committing statements like the one I quoted from now on. Naturally, I recommend being right, too, but you seem to have that one down

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
Thanks for answering that question, SageShadows. The only thing that concerns me is what I quoted. I know we don't get every question right the first time (though we do get nearly all)-- and that statistically I'm probably the worst offender, but when you phrase your answer like you're not sure you're right, it's better to not answer the question. From the first post:

I recommend staying away from non-committing statements like the one I quoted from now on. Naturally, I recommend being right, too, but you seem to have that one down

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
If I play meddling kids and name ' creature' does that stop wrath?

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
If I play meddling kids and name ' creature' does that stop wrath?

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"Creature" and "creatures" are different words, so if I were making a ruling, I'd say no. Some would consider that nitpicking, and I'd tell them to go jump in a lake. I feel like this would be along the same lines as "anal" being a word in the phrase "an album cover," to borrow from SNL. The official FAQ only says that flavor text is considered when determining whether you can play a card. Since Un-cards aren't tournament legal, though, this is one of the rare truly subjectrive moments in Magic.

"Target" is a far better choice pretty much every time, though.

Also, caquaa, if you weren't going to answer, you shouldn't have posted.

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:

Also, caquaa, if you weren't going to answer, you shouldn't have posted.

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Originally posted by caquaa:
I'll tel lyou to go jump in a lake then.

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Fair enough.

As an additional cost to cast Flesh Allergy, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures put into all graveyards from the battlefield this turn

So my question is, if you sacrifice a Reassembling Skeleton to Bloodthrone Vampire and buy it back, then sac it again and buy it back again and then sacrifice it to Flesh Allergy and destroy another creature, will Flesh Allergy make your opponent lose 4 life or 2?

IOW -- Flesh Allergy says, "loses life equal to the number of creatures put into all graveyards from the battlefield this turn" and NOT "loses one life for each time a creature was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn." -- SO, are the 3 occurrences of Reassembling Skeleton viewed by the card as only ONE creature (which went to the graveyard 3 times) or does Flesh Allergy see each one separately? I could see it argued either way.

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Originally posted by danieljloeb:
FLESH ALLERGY states:

As an additional cost to cast Flesh Allergy, sacrifice a creature.

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures put into all graveyards from the battlefield this turn

So my question is, if you sacrifice a Reassembling Skeleton to Bloodthrone Vampire and buy it back, then sac it again and buy it back again and then sacrifice it to Flesh Allergy and destroy another creature, will Flesh Allergy make your opponent lose 4 life or 2?

IOW -- Flesh Allergy says, "loses life equal to the number of creatures put into all graveyards from the battlefield this turn" and NOT "loses one life for each time a creature was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn." -- SO, are the 3 occurrences of Reassembling Skeleton viewed by the card as only ONE creature (which went to the graveyard 3 times) or does Flesh Allergy see each one separately? I could see it argued either way.

Hope someone can definitively answer this question. Thanks.

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Originally posted by foesho:
Leveling question:
When leveling a card and and for example it looks like this :
+2
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+3
when the card gets to the level two does it just start to decrease or is there a certain way.

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You really need to refine the question. Leveling creatures dont have a '-1' ability. Can you give us an actual card as a basis for the question?

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Originally posted by thror:
You really need to refine the question. Leveling creatures dont have a '-1' ability. Can you give us an actual card as a basis for the question?

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Planeswalker's come into play with a number of loyalty counters on them from the number in the bottom right.
Once per turn, when you could play a sorcery, you can use one of their abilities, granted you have that many to take away.

It doesn't "get" to "level x". You just pick one and pay the price of removing or adding that number of counters, then the ability goes on the stack. If it says +1, you add a counter. If it says -4, you remove 4 (but again, you can't subtract 4 counters unless they have at least 4).
You can pick any of them, you don't have to use them in order or wait any nuber of turns.

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