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Originally posted by psrex:
What happens if I have Pacifism on an opponent's Fleecemane Lion and the Fleecemane Lion becomes monstrous? Does the hexproof ability make Pacifism fall off?

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Originally posted by Styrofoam02:
interesting, thank you.

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our of curiosity, where did you get the idea that it didnt work this way?

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I need confirmation about Flickerwisp / Conjurer's Closet. If I control both and send the Flickerwisp into the closet at the beginning of my end step, when it comes back out the 'beginning' will have passed and whatever I chose to flicker will not return until the beginning of my opponent's end step, yeah?

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Originally posted by keywacat:
I need confirmation about Flickerwisp / Conjurer's Closet. If I control both and send the Flickerwisp into the closet at the beginning of my end step, when it comes back out the 'beginning' will have passed and whatever I chose to flicker will not return until the beginning of my opponent's end step, yeah?

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513. End Step

513.1. First, all abilities that trigger "at the beginning of the end step" or "at the beginning of the next end step" go on the stack. (See rule 603, "Handling Triggered Abilities.")

513.1a Previously, abilities that trigger at the beginning of the end step were printed with the trigger condition "at end of turn." Cards that were printed with that text have received errata in the Oracle card reference to say "at the beginning of the end step" or "at the beginning of the next end step."

513.2. Second, the active player gets priority. Players may cast spells and activate abilities.

513.3. If a permanent with an ability that triggers "at the beginning of the end step" enters the battlefield during this step, that ability won't trigger until the next turn's end step. Likewise, if a delayed triggered ability that triggers "at the beginning of the next end step" is created during this step, that ability won't trigger until the next turn's end step. In other words, the step doesn't "back up" so those abilities can go on the stack. This rule applies only to triggered abilities; it doesn't apply to continuous effects whose durations say "until end of turn" or "this turn." (See rule 514, "Cleanup Step.")

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Originally posted by wayne:
There is one Pack Rat on the table, no copies of it. Player A activates its ability, Player B bounces it while the ability is one the stack. What happens?

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
A 1/1 Pack Rat token comes into play with the pack rat ability.

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Originally posted by wayne:
So short of getting Stifled, the pack rat token is coming into play once the ability is on the stack?

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yes. an ability on the stack is independent of its source. just like prodigal sorcerers damage ability still happens if he gets killed, a pack rat copy still gets made.

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Originally posted by thror:
yes. an ability on the stack is independent of its source. just like prodigal sorcerers damage ability still happens if he gets killed, a pack rat copy still gets made.

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If you had some way to make the token not a rat, then it would die to SBE. Or maybe Infest/Wrath effects.

1. For True-Name Nemesis - how does this work? Can I ask an opponent his name? I mean ,how specific to I need to be? Is he/she required to tell me that info? And also, stop me if I am wrong, but, it isn't that powerful, wrath of god kills it, sacrificing kills it etc. Is all this correct?

2. Say I have a God Card like Erebos in play. That is the only card in play, so, he isn't a creature, but, I can use his special ability, right? Now, part B of that question is that if he isn't a creature can my opponent cast a swords to plowshares targeting him? And what happens if Erebos is the only thing in play and the opponent casts Chanier's edict (or some other card that causes me to sacrifice a creature), even though he isn't a creature, he's still a creature card, so, I'd have to sacrifice him, or is that wrong?

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Originally posted by Dancam1:
I have 2 questions

1. For True-Name Nemesis - how does this work? Can I ask an opponent his name? I mean ,how specific to I need to be? Is he/she required to tell me that info? And also, stop me if I am wrong, but, it isn't that powerful, wrath of god kills it, sacrificing kills it etc. Is all this correct?

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uh, wot? "As True-Name Nemesis enters the battlefield, choose a player.
True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player. (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything controlled by that player.)"

I have no idea why you need your opponents name. "This has protection from you and all your stuff" is pretty straightforward. And yea, it really is fairly powerful. beyond wrath/sac, it doesn't die.

#2 - yes, you can use his ability. No, your opponent can't even target him with STP unless he's a creature. If your opponent casts chainers, you sac a creature. If he isn't a creature, you CANT sac him.

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yes. an ability on the stack is independent of its source. just like prodigal sorcerers damage ability still happens if he gets killed, a pack rat copy still gets made.

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Originally posted by wayne:

Yep, I knew that, was a bit thrown off by the fact that Pack Rat was no longer in play. So the card is referring to Pack Rat the card in general and not the specific copy of it in play?

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Correct. The copy will ETB using the last known value of Pack Rat's copiable values. Doesn't need the original Pack Rat in play to copy.

I've a friend who's trying to tell me that Spell Crumple will not 'tuck' someone's Commander in an EDH game as they can declare it will go to the command zone rather than the graveyard. Oddly enough he says Hinder will work as intuitively intended, even though I cannot see any real difference in the wording between the two.

Has anyone else heard of this sort of thing?

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Ciao all;

I've a friend who's trying to tell me that Spell Crumple will not 'tuck' someone's Commander in an EDH game as they can declare it will go to the command zone rather than the graveyard. Oddly enough he says Hinder will work as intuitively intended, even though I cannot see any real difference in the wording between the two.

Has anyone else heard of this sort of thing?

Cheers;
keywacat

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Spell Crumple already has a replacement effect, so the card wasn't going to go to the graveyard and it should be put into the library. Just point your friend to the Oracle rulings on the card:

http://magiccards.info/query?q=spell+crumple&v=card&s=cname

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Originally posted by chaos021:
I thought Commander/EDH had special rules that specifically affected your commander so that if it would leave play under any circumstances, it would return to the command zone instead.

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http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/rules/edh

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Originally posted by mikeyk135:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/rules/edh

If the commander were to go to the graveyard or be exiled, it goes to the command zone instead, doesn't say anything about library. So if it would be put into a library somehow it happens and does not go to command zone I guess

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