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Originally posted by Schwingzilla:
1) Is it sufficient to say "Loop until Gaea's Blessing is the only card in my library"
2) Since people are gonna be all lame about 1), is it really stalling to actually try this as fast as I can? Shuffle, flip over the top 45 cards, see if there's a Gaea's Blessing. If there is, repeat. It would probably only take 15 seconds each time, and it is my goal and sort of advances my agenda to win the game.

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1) no, the event of shuffling is random
2) yes, it is stalling since you can't guarantee the result of a random event

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Originally posted by skizzikmonger:
If I have a Strangleroot Geist with a +1/+1 counter on it, and my opponent casts Black Sun's Zenith for 2 or more, will my Geist come back from the dead?

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No, it will not. When state based actions are checked, the giest has both a +1/+1 counter and some number of -1/-1 counters, resulting in it being put into your graveyard without undying triggering.

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Originally posted by thror:
No, it will not. When state based actions are checked, the giest has both a +1/+1 counter and some number of -1/-1 counters, resulting in it being put into your graveyard without undying triggering.

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If you're wondering specifically why:

From the comprehensive rules:

121.3. If a permanent has both a +1/+1 counter and a -1/-1 counter on it, N +1/+1 and N -1/-1 counters are removed from it as a state-based action, where N is the smaller of the number of +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters on it. See rule 704.

Basically, the annihilation of matching +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters happens simultaneously with the check to see if something has a toughness of 0 or less.

I'm at 3 life and my opponent is at 1. He casts Lightning Helix and I respond with Fireblast. Tie game?

Am I allowed to hold a land in my hand as to bluff an opponent in to thinking I can't pay the extra cost of Daze/Spell Pierce (assuming it is my turn) and play the land after?

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Originally posted by LemonMeringue:
Sigil captain only puts the counters on if it's a 1/1, so if creakwood liege is in play, the 1/1s it makes won't get +1/+1 counters. The creatures enter the battlefield as 1/1s, but since the sigil captain only puts counters on them IF they are 1/1s, it won't do anything since they are 3/3s by the time the ability resolves.

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Originally posted by farsk8dutch:
My opponent activates Aether Vial, I Smash to Smithereens.
Does his creature still come into play?

I'm at 3 life and my opponent is at 1. He casts Lightning Helix and I respond with Fireblast. Tie game?

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So you understand why;
When Vial is activated, the ability goes on the stack. Vial does not have to be there for the ability to continue resolving as normal, it can't be countered that way.

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
So you understand why;
When Vial is activated, the ability goes on the stack. Vial does not have to be there for the ability to continue resolving as normal, it can't be countered that way.

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I was thinking that because there is no artifact in play associated with the ability that it would not work.

IIRC, a similar scenario being described but having the opposite effect. Is there anything like that, maybe involving creatures, or am I thinking of older rulings, or neither?

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
Losing (in this case having 0 or less life) is a state-based action. It does not go on the stack and happens "faster" than you can respond to, basically. So when the opponent is hit with the Fireblast their spell will never land, not simultaneously for a draw, and not afterwards either (which matters in multiplayer).

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Originally posted by farsk8dutch:
I was thinking that because there is no artifact in play associated with the ability that it would not work.

IIRC, a similar scenario being described but having the opposite effect. Is there anything like that, maybe involving creatures, or am I thinking of older rulings, or neither?

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Originally posted by evilempire22:
Does Sen Triplets let me play permanents from the opponents hand, and do they enter the battlefield under my control?

--Evil

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Yes. But you are still restricted to one land per turn.

Read the Gatherer rulings if you want more info:

Next EDH question....
Player A has their general that dies and wants to put it in his command zone. Player B and player C both have mimic vat and both want to imprint it. What happens?

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Originally posted by rockondon:
while playing edh last night I had karn, silver golem and mycosynth lattice in play. My opponent had mikaeus, the unhallowed and heartless summnoning in play.
I used karn to turn his lands into creatures, killing them.
Would mikaeus bring them back?

Next EDH question....
Player A has their general that dies and wants to put it in his command zone. Player B and player C both have mimic vat and both want to imprint it. What happens?

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Also, if person A's creature was not his general and it dies and goes to the grave, and both player B and C have mimic vats, which one of them gets to imprint it?

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Originally posted by rockondon:
^ cool. Thank you.

Also, if person A's creature was not his general and it dies and goes to the grave, and both player B and C have mimic vats, which one of them gets to imprint it?

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Depends on whos turn it is.
The person whos turn it is gets priority first so their mimic vat trigger, if they had one, would go on the stack first. Then the next person to their left would get priority and their mimic vat trigger, if they had one, would go on the stack and so forth around the table. After all the triggers are on the stack and they and everyone passes priority they would resolve with the last one put on the stack resolving first and then to the second to last one and so on.

To simplify if its players A B and C and its As turn and his creature dies, then Bs trigger goes on the stack followed by Cs trigger. Cs trigger will resolve first so he gets the creature under his mimic vat.
However, lets say its during player Cs turn that player As creature dies, then Cs trigger goes on the stack first, Bs last and Bs trigger resolves first. So in that case B would get the creature under his vat.

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Originally posted by VJames83:
So I have an Aether Vial with 2 counters in play.

My opponent cracks a fetch, I activate Vial in response, playing Leonin Arbiter. Does he have to pay 2 mana to search his library?

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My opponent has a Leyline of the Void in play as well as a Helm of Obedience. He activates the Helm for only 1, but since Leyline reads that if cards would enter the GY they would become exiled instead. ((ergo never hitting the GY)) Helm reads to repeat the process of putting the top card into your GY until X is reached. Since one card never actually hits the GY, the Helm basically just instantly decks you.

Is that REALLY possible? It doesn't make sense that two cards could make such a simple and super cheesy combo. If this really is the case, then I would like to figure out how to get this super cheese errataed so that a Helm for 1 is just that, a Helm for 1. How can I go about trying to get this proposed to be fixed?