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Originally posted by Bugger:
Suppose I have Leyline of the Void in play and my opponent discards emrakul. What happens?

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Gatherer rulings:

Leyline of the Void's second ability prevents cards from ever reaching your opponents' graveyards. Abilities that would trigger when those cards are put into an opponent's graveyard (such as Hoarding Dragon's last ability) won't trigger.

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Originally posted by southparker2002:
If I have a Coat of Arms out and say I have 2 creatures. 1 is a Human Knight and the other is a Human Soldier. Do they still get +1/+1 for the Human part or no?

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The two creatures do not need to share ALL creature types, they just need to share at least one creature type.

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If a creature has more than one creature type, and one of those types matches the creature you are calculating for, then count that creature. Only one type needs to match in order to get counted.

If you have a creature with more than one creature type, count all creatures which have either creature type.

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Gatherer ruling:

Sharing multiple creature types doesn't give an additional bonus. Coat of Arms counts creatures, not creature types.

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For each creature, you compare it with each other creature and see if it shares at least one creature type. If it does, then it gets a bonus.

The previous rulings are to account for a situation like this:

You control two Human Knight creatures, a Human Soldier, and a Spirit Knight.

Your Human Knight shares a creature type (human) with the second creature, so gets +1/+1. It also shares a creature type (knight) with the third creature, so it gets another +1/+1. It also gets a bonus for sharing at least one creature type (actually two - human and knight) with the Human Knight, so gets another +1/+1. It gets a total of +3/+3, because it shares a creature type with three different creatures, but it doesn't need to share the same creature type.

Think of it like high school clubs. You might be in the Spanish club and the chess club, and if one if you have three friends, one in the Spanish club, one in the chess club, and one in both, you say that you have three friends who share clubs with you. You don't get to "double up" on the third friend who is in two clubs and say that you have two friends in the Spanish club and two in the chess club for a total of four friends. For each of your friends, you simply ask, "Is s/he in a club with me? If so, then count that friend as a friend who shares a club."

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Originally posted by southparker2002:
so then if I have 2x Human Kights on the field, they each get +2/+2?

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No. From the rulings in gatherer:

10/1/2009 Sharing multiple creature types doesn't give an additional bonus. Coat of Arms counts creatures, not creature types.

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Originally posted by Undomian:
I'm fairly sure the answer to this question is no, but if I Transmute Artifact for Spine of Ish Sah and choose not to pay the difference, does the spine hit the battlefield, thereby destroying a permanent and returning to my hand?

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Edit: another noob question. Lets say my opponent has Zur as his general and is loaded up with enchantments that prevent it from being targeted. Could I clone it with phyrexian metamorph and kill it via the legend rule?

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Originally posted by rockondon:
here's a quick simple question.
In EDH, if I have a monoblue general, can I cast split color spells such as shielding plax?

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Its color identity is also green, so it cannot be included in your mono-blue general deck.

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Edit: another noob question. Lets say my opponent has Zur as his general and is loaded up with enchantments that prevent it from being targeted. Could I clone it with phyrexian metamorph and kill it via the legend rule?

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Originally posted by rockondon:
here's a quick simple question.
In EDH, if I have a monoblue general, can I cast split color spells such as shielding plax?

Edit: another noob question. Lets say my opponent has Zur as his general and is loaded up with enchantments that prevent it from being targeted. Could I clone it with phyrexian metamorph and kill it via the legend rule?

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No, your general must be both colors to play with a hybrid card.

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Originally posted by Pyrenus:
I have a mimic vat and I destroy an inkmoth nexus that has been turned into a creature. Can I copy the inkmoth, and what happens when I put a copy into play? Do I have to pay the 1?

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Yes. You will have an unanimated Inkmoth. You have to pay 1 to turn it into a creature.

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Originally posted by Kryne:
Does No Mercy kill creatures that deal damage to my planeswalkers? Or does that count as "redirected"?

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Originally posted by Kryne:
Does No Mercy kill creatures that deal damage to my planeswalkers? Or does that count as "redirected"?

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When a commander dies, does it count as going to the graveyard or is that completely replaced by the command zone?

I play Vintage WGD deck... my opponent's gonna kill me the next turn and I don't wanna lose to I do what I always do: Infinite loop. There's no other creature card in any of our graveyards, only WGD, so my animate dead/dance of the dead will trigger the dragon on and on and on an infinite amount of time, making it a draw.

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Originally posted by Liq:
Player A plays a Forked Bolt choosing the Spellkite and an Elite Vanguard. Can Player B pay 2 life to have Spellskite be the target again?

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Nope, see rule 114.3 in the Comprehensive Rules:

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The same target can't be chosen multiple times for any one instance of the word "target" on a spell or ability.

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Originally posted by airwalk:

When a commander dies, does it count as going to the graveyard or is that completely replaced by the command zone?

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it is a replacement effect:
If a Commander would be put into a graveyard or exile from anywhere, its owner may choose to move it to the command zone instead.

The card never touches the graveyard. Going to the graveyard is replaced by going to the command zone instead.

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Originally posted by Heresy19:
There's no other creature card in any of our graveyards, only WGD, so my animate dead/dance of the dead will trigger the dragon on and on and on an infinite amount of time, making it a draw.

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since the loop contains only mandatory actions (Necromancy removed, WGD dies, Necromancy comes back enchanting WGD, none are optional), then the game ends in a draw.

715.4. If a loop contains only mandatory actions, the game is a draw. (See rules 104.4b and 104.4f.)

If I use arcum to tinker away a creature for rings of brighthearth, can I pay 2 mana to copy arcum's ability, sacking a creature for basalt monolith, then create infinite mana with the basalt/brighthearth?

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Originally posted by rockondon:
I'm building an arcum dagsson EDH deck.

If I use arcum to tinker away a creature for rings of brighthearth, can I pay 2 mana to copy arcum's ability, sacking a creature for basalt monolith, then create infinite mana with the basalt/brighthearth?

I'm thinkin that I have to have the rings of brighthearth in play already when I use arcum's ability but just wanted to make sure.

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Rings can't copy mana abilities, so I'm not sure how you intend to go infinite...