Bblackboltt on First Spell Eris, Roar of …
2 weeks ago
If it's my turn and I cast Eris, Roar of the Storm as my first spell, and then cast Scampering Scorcher as my second spell, does the elemental token that Eris makes gain haste?
Gidgetimer on How does Nissa, Who Shakes …
2 weeks ago
Nissa, Who Shakes the World has a triggered mana ability. The she makes is in addition to the mana made by the land. You will end up with after you tap Simic Growth Chamber for mana.
(I know that last part is worded a bit weirdly, it is because stuff like Mana Reflection exists and so technically you are still only tapping the Simic Growth Chamber for , but then the trigger is also adding .)
Gidgetimer on Does a creature with protection …
2 weeks ago
No.
An easy acronym for what protection stops is DEBT. Something with protection can not be Damaged, Enchanted/equipped, Blocked, or Targeted by a source that it has protection from. Dead of Winter and Bontu's Last Reckoning do none of those things, so protection does not interact with them.
Be_Jamin on How does Nissa, Who Shakes …
2 weeks ago
The situation I am asking about is having Nissa, Who Shakes the World, a bounce land like Simic Growth Chamber, and Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth on the battlefield.
With Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth causing lands to be forests and Simic Growth Chamber tapping for a green and a blue, does Nissa, Who Shakes the World cause Simic Growth Chamber to tap for TWO green and a blue, or does Simic Growth Chamber simply gain the ability to tap for a single green?
Grenade55 on Does a creature with protection …
2 weeks ago
Does a creature with protection from black stop either Dead of Winter or Bontu's Last Reckoning from potentially killing it?
Rhadamanthus on kicker when casting a spell …
2 weeks ago
You still need to pay the kicker if you want to use it and you have to pay the costs for whichever spree modes you choose. A card's "mana cost" is specifically the symbols printed up in the corner. If an effect tells you to cast something "without paying its mana cost", that's the only part you get for free. Anything else, including mandatory additional costs, optional additional costs, cost-increasing effects, etc. has to be paid normally.
YStar27 on kicker when casting a spell …
2 weeks ago
if i give a spell with kicker or spree rebound with Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch Flip or cast it using Mizzix's Mastery, Arcane Bombardment or something else that lets me skip the mana cost what happens to the kicker or spree?
thanks
Yesterday on What P/T has Brotherhood Vertibird …
2 weeks ago
In both scenarios, the Vertibird will be a 3/3. Vertibird's own static power-defining ability is overwritten by the more recent P/T-defining ability of Sydri. Crewing the vertibird after it is already a creature will not change this; crewing the vehicle doesn't intrinsically cause the vehicle to gain the P/T printed on the card in a way that would override Sydri's ability.
PieCake on What P/T has Brotherhood Vertibird …
2 weeks ago
Let's say you control Sydri, Galvanic Genius and an uncrewed Brotherhood Vertibird. You tap an Island to activate Sydri's ability and target the Vertibird. The only artifact you control is the Vertibird.
a.) What P/T does the Vertibird have in this scenario?
b.) What P/T does the Vertibird have, if I decide to crew it with Sydri after using her first ability on Vertibird?
Rhadamanthus on Does saccing a permenant happen …
2 weeks ago
Bravet: An answer to your question has been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the most helpful answer to your question.
I try to avoid selecting my own responses when I do this but in this case it was the only option.
Rhadamanthus on Priority after ETB
2 weeks ago
No, this doesn't work. Though the player does retain priority to take another action, targets for a triggered ability are chosen at the time it's put onto the stack. You can't back up and re-select targets if someone makes a response.
It's possible to construct a situation where Loaming Shaman can target itself with its own trigger, but it involves the Shaman dying to a state-based-action immediately upon entering the battlefield. This is because triggered abilities are put onto the stack at the time a player gets priority to take another action but SBAs are checked and dealt with right before each time a player would get priority. So it could work in a situation where, for example, the player's opponent had Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, or someone had Leyline of Singularity and the player already controlled another Loaming Shaman.
TehGrief on Priority after ETB
2 weeks ago
Player A casts Loaming Shaman, with the ETB trigger on the stack, would they then be able to sacrifice it to Goblin Bombardment in order to also choose the Loaming Shaman with its own ability?
UltimateRoxas40 on Zameck Guildmage and counter doublers
2 weeks ago
Ahh, I didn't know about the 'with' being part of the Replacement effect situation. I primarily associate 'instead' or 'as' when considering replacement effects, but not 'with', which led to my confusion. I now have to go down the rabbit hole of rulings with replacement effects haha.
Always glad to learn something new. Thanks for the explanation Rhadamanthus!
Rhadamanthus on Zameck Guildmage and counter doublers
2 weeks ago
You can use double square brackets around a card's name to create a reference link: Zameck Guildmage, Hardened Scales, Kami of Whispered Hopes. It's the best way to help make sure everyone understands what's going on in the question.
Hardened Scales will just add one more +1/+1 counter in your specific question. The effects from Zameck Guildmage will cause the creature to enter with two additional +1/+1 counters and Hardened Scales will see a creature about to enter the battlefield with one or more counters, so will add another one.
All of the effects here are replacement effects (you can usually tell by the use of one or more of the words "as", "with" or "instead"). Replacement effects replace the usual results of an event with a modified event. If multiple replacement effects could modify how an event affects a player or object, then the affected player or controller of the affected object chooses which one to apply first. The modified event might then become eligible for other replacement effects and/or no longer eligible for others. You keep going until there are no more unused replacement effects that can be applied and then the event happens.
In your example this means at first only the replacement effects created by Zameck Guildmage could apply to the creature entering the battlefield. After you apply one of them, now the other Guildmage effect and the Hardened Scales effect could apply to the modified event. Whichever one of those you apply first, the other can still be applied to the further modified event. After you apply that one there's nothing left to deal with and the creature ends up entering the battlefield with 3 +1/+1 counters. If there were a doubling effect involved here like Doubling Season then the order in which you apply the effects would matter and you'd get the most counters by applying the doubling effect last.
Rhadamanthus on Eternal Thirst + Deathtouch doesn't …
2 weeks ago
Lord_Olga: Since it's clear you got a satisfactory answer to your question and there don't seem to be any more follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked it as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the most helpful answer to your question.
UltimateRoxas40 on Zameck Guildmage and counter doublers
2 weeks ago
Since its first ability can be activated multiple times, are they considered separate events or cumulative?
For example, if I activate the "enters with an additional +1/+1 counter" ability twice, would that be the same as "the creature enters with two +1/+1 counters", or "the creature gets a counter, then gets another counter"? With counter doublers or boosters like Harden Skin or Kami of Whispered Hopes, that could change the number of counters we get.
Test scenario. Zameck's ability is activated twice, and another creature ETBs. It's either:
- The creature enters with two +1/+1 counters, Harden Skin sees "one or more counters", and adds an additional counter, resulting in 3 counters
or
- The creature enters with a +1/+1 counter from Zameck's first activation, HS sees "one or more counters" and adds an additional counter, then the +1/+1 from Zameck's second activation is added, HS sees "one or more counters" and adds an additional counter, resulting in 4 counters total.
I've done a search here and on Reddit, MTG assist, etc, and didn't find a satisfying answer haha, so I thought I'd check here. Any input is much appreciated!
Lord_Olga on Eternal Thirst + Deathtouch doesn't …
2 weeks ago
Gidgetimer riiight, MTGO has me forgetting damage isnt dealt one at a time hahaha
Rhadamanthus on Eternal Thirst + Deathtouch doesn't …
2 weeks ago
When the blocking creatures die you're already well past the point where damage has been assigned and dealt. This means it's too late for the +1/+1 counters from Eternal Thirst to affect the the attacker's power or toughness for determining the effects of damage. The attacker won't deal any extra damage and it will also die if it took lethal damage before the +1/+1 counters went on (i.e. if the attacker is 5/5 and gets blocked by 3 2/2s and there's no first/double strike involved then all the creatures will die together).
Gidgetimer on Eternal Thirst + Deathtouch doesn't …
2 weeks ago
It is correct that you will not get to assign more damage damage than the creature had power at the beginning of the combat damage step.
Your reasoning, however; is a bit wrong. You assign damage from your attackers and the blocking player(s) assign the damage from their blockers. Then all combat damage is dealt simultaneously. The game will try to then give you priority, which means that SBAs will be checked and triggers put on the stack until there are no more SBAs performed or triggers put on the stack. When the first round of SBAs are checked all of your opponents creatures (without indestructible) that were dealt damage by a source with deathtouch will die, as will the enchanted creature if your opponent dealt enough damage to it to kill it. The ability granted by Eternal Thirst will then trigger and will be put on the stack once an SBA check is completed without any SBA being performed. Then there is a round of priority before each trigger resolves putting counters on the enchanted creature (if it is still alive). As you can see there may not be much actual time between damage assignment and getting the counters. But there is a tremendous amount that has happened in terms of game actions and it is well past damage assignment by the time the counters are added.
510.1. First, the active player announces how each attacking creature assigns its combat damage, then the defending player announces how each blocking creature assigns its combat damage. This turn-based action doesn’t use the stack. A player assigns a creature’s combat damage according to the following rules:...
510.2. Second, all combat damage that’s been assigned is dealt simultaneously. This turn-based action doesn’t use the stack. No player has the chance to cast spells or activate abilities between the time combat damage is assigned and the time it’s dealt.
510.3. Third, the active player gets priority. (See rule 117, “Timing and Priority.”)
Lord_Olga on Eternal Thirst + Deathtouch doesn't …
2 weeks ago
Just making sure this works the way I think it does. Say I have a deathtouch creature with Eternal Thirst on it attacking and it gets blocked by multiple creatures. Since I have deathtouch, I can assign 1 damage to each blocker for fatal. As each creature dies during the damage step the deathtouch creature will get +1/+1, which gives it more damage to deal than it had before, as well as more toughness to survive the damage being dealt to it. However, I can't actually assign the new power to damage more blockers, as I have already declared where my damage is being dealt. The additional damage will go unassigned. Is this correct?
wallisface on Blood Artist and Delney, Streetwise …
2 weeks ago
The triggers will happen twice for each creature dying.
The same way that blood artist sees all the death triggers, Delney sees those triggers happen and doubles-em.
MartinEMcArthur on Blood Artist and Delney, Streetwise …
2 weeks ago
Let’s say I have both Blood Artist and Delney, Streetwise Lookout on the battlefield. If I then cast Wrath of God while they’re both on the field, will Blood Artist still trigger twice for each creature death, or won’t she since Delney also died at the same time?
SageQahnaarin on Can [Karn the Great Creator] …
2 weeks ago
Thank you so much. I'll make sure to use double brackets next time.
legendofa on Can [Karn the Great Creator] …
2 weeks ago
Yes, Karn, the Great Creator can put an exiled Ring of Ma'ruf into your hand. The updated wording on Ring is simply
- , , Exile Ring of Ma'rûf: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.
So the Ring exiles itself as part of the activation cost, allowing Karn to add it to your hand.
The old wording was created when interacting with objects not immediately in play was still a novelty, and the exile zone didn't fully exist. (To be fair, almost everything was a novelty at that point.)
Also, you need double square brackets to link cards, not just single square brackets.
[[Ring of Ma'Ruf]]
SageQahnaarin on Can [Karn the Great Creator] …
2 weeks ago
I was recently looking at card effects that retrieve exiled cards and stumbled upon [Ring of Ma'ruf]. I was wondering if [Karn the Great Creator] was able to retrieve [Ring of Ma'ruf] after its effect exiles its self "entirely"?
Rhadamanthus on Does Felix Five-Boots double up …
3 weeks ago
You're right, toxic isn't actually a triggered ability so it doesn't get considered by effects that care about triggered abilities. Here are the detailed rules for toxic:
702.164. Toxic
702.164a Toxic is a static ability. It is written “toxic N,” where N is a number.
702.164b Some rules and effects refer to a creature’s “total toxic value.” A creature’s total toxic value is the sum of all N values of toxic abilities that creature has.
Example: If a creature with toxic 2 gains toxic 1 due to another effect, its total toxic value is 3.
702.164c Combat damage dealt to a player by a creature with toxic causes that creature’s controller to give the player a number of poison counters equal to that creature’s total toxic value, in addition to the damage’s other results. See rule 120.3.
purpleballspurple on Does Felix Five-Boots double up …
3 weeks ago
I was going through OTC spoilers and my first thought when seeing was toxic but im not sure if it will work since toxic doesn't say "When this creature deals combat damage..."
Thank you for the help!
Rhadamanthus on The Cyber-Controller
3 weeks ago
No, you're not allowed to obscure face-down creatures in that way. You're not required to tell your opponent what each one is if they forget, but if they ask which ones are the ones they own, you do have to tell them that much.
708.6. If you control multiple face-down spells or face-down permanents, you must ensure at all times that your face-down spells and permanents can be easily differentiated from each other. This includes, but is not limited to, knowing what ability or rules caused the permanents to be face down, the order spells were cast, the order that face-down permanents entered the battlefield, which creature(s) attacked last turn, and any other differences between face-down spells or permanents. Common methods for distinguishing between face-down objects include using counters or dice to mark the different objects, or clearly placing those objects in order on the table.
Rhadamanthus on what is modal?
3 weeks ago
A modal spell is a spell with an effect that says "Choose [some number] - [list of choices]" where you make the modal choices as you cast it. Spells like Simic Charm or Cryptic Command are modal spells. Aether Channeler has a triggered ability with a modal effect, but Aether Channeler itself as a spell is not modal because you don't make any modal choices as you cast it. Similarly, Umezawa's Jitte has an activated ability with a modal effect but the Jitte itself is not a modal spell and Jace, the Mind Sculptor has a bunch of different activated abilities but doesn't have anything modal about it.
Rhadamanthus on can i activate Reconnaissance on …
3 weeks ago
No, you don't get the result you're going for here. You're allowed to activate Reconnaissance as many times you want all in response to each other, but after one of those activations finally resolves and removes the creature from combat it's no longer an attacking creature. It will be an illegal target for the remaining activations and they won't be able to do anything.
proterran98 on The Cyber-Controller
3 weeks ago
I have played The Cyber-Controller. I’ve milled 5 Squire from my opponents and I have milled a Storm Crow. My storm crow opponent loves playing Unsummon. My opponents see them become cyber men, they can note what cyber man is what. Can I rearrange the cyber men in an attempt to confuse? Wotc has printed morph tokens, can I use some other sort of indicator for the cyber men as to not have all the different squires and storm crows be recognized by each opponent’s unique sleeves?
YStar27 on what is modal?
3 weeks ago
i am building i Riku of Many Paths commander deck and want to know what is a modal spell? obviously cards like Simic Charm are modal but what about ones like Aether Channeler? also are planeswalkers and other permanents with multiple abilities considered modal becase they do multiple things?
thanks
YStar27 on can i activate Reconnaissance on …
3 weeks ago
if i attack with a Birds of Paradise can i activate Reconnaissance on it multiple times and then tap Birds of Paradise before each one resolves and make infinite mana?
thanks
Rhadamanthus on Does saccing a permenant happen …
3 weeks ago
You get to choose the order. The game's definition of "sacrifice" is "To move a permanent you control to its owner’s graveyard", so the triggers happen at the same time.
While we could have a philosophical discussion about whether taking the "sacrifice" action and the permanent going to the graveyard share the specific exact same moment in time, it doesn't matter in the context of how the rules for handling triggered abilities work. When a triggered ability triggers, it waits until the next time a player would get priority to take another action to actually go onto the stack. It's when multiple triggered abilities are trying to go onto the stack at the same time that we consider whose turn it is and who controls what to decide the order. If you sacrificed something, it's going to be either for paying the cost of a spell/ability or going through the resolution of a spell/ability, meaning anything that triggers here will need to wait until after you're finished with whatever you're doing to go onto the stack.
Bravet on Does saccing a treasure + …
3 weeks ago
legendofa Totally get it, and don't worry about it. We're all learning here and I appreciate the effort :)
legendofa on Does saccing a treasure + …
3 weeks ago
Oh, you're right. I've been on a losing streak trying to answer these recently...
Bravet on Does saccing a treasure + …
3 weeks ago
Found out that mana abilities do not use the stack (rule 605.3b) and resolve immediately after being activated. So I would get the mana before Crime Novelist's triggered ability resolves.
Bravet on Does saccing a permenant happen …
3 weeks ago
I'm asking specifically because I am looking at Crime Novelist and Krenko, Baron of Tin Street. If I sacrifice an artifact (ex. a treasure), will the two goblins' triggered abilities go off at the same time, so I get to choose which one goes first on the stack? Or does "sacrificing" come first, then "going to the graveyard" comes second? (Which would result in Krenko's triggered ability on top of Crime Novelist's on the stack)
legendofa on Does saccing a treasure + …
3 weeks ago
You would get the mana and counter from Crime Novelist first.
Sacrificing the Treasure is part of its activation cost. You pay the cost, putting the Treasure's ability on the stack. Paying the cost triggers Novelist, and its ability is added to the stack. The stack resolves from newest to oldest. Since the Novelist's ability is the newest, it resolves fully. After that, the Treasure's ability resolves.
Bravet on Does saccing a treasure + …
3 weeks ago
If I sacrifice a treasure with Crime Novelist on the field, will I get the mana from the treasure first or will the treasure's activated ability go on the stack with Crime Novelist's triggered ability? If it's the latter, which one goes on top?
legendofa on Is Aura swap an attach …
3 weeks ago
Rhadamanthus Once again, thanks for the detailed response!
Rhadamanthus on Is Aura swap an attach …
3 weeks ago
That works. "Becoming" Q just means first something wasn't Q and then it was. Auras always enter the battlefield attached to something immediately and are considered to have become attached to the object for the purposes of effects that care about it. It's how cards like Bramble Elemental and Eriette, the Beguiler are able to work at all:
303.4. Some enchantments have the subtype “Aura.” An Aura enters the battlefield attached to an object or player. What an Aura can be attached to is defined by its enchant keyword ability (see rule 702.5, “Enchant”). Other effects can limit what a permanent can be enchanted by.
The reason for the particular distinction around creatures declared as attackers vs. creatures put directly onto the battlefield attacking comes from the detailed rules for declaring attackers. Handling attack triggers is the last step of the special action of declaring attackers in the Declare Attackers step of combat.
508.1. First, the active player declares attackers. This turn-based action doesn’t use the stack. To declare attackers, the active player follows the steps below, in order...
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508.1m Any abilities that trigger on attackers being declared trigger.
legendofa on Is Aura swap an attach …
3 weeks ago
Bramble Elemental might not be the best example. Let's take the new Eriette, the Beguiler.
legendofa on Is Aura swap an attach …
3 weeks ago
More Future Sight Weirdness. The card Arcanum Wings allows you to "exchange" it with another aura from your hand. Is this considered attaching the new aura, for effects like Bramble Elemental?
701.3a To attach an Aura, Equipment, or Fortification to an object or player means to take it from where it currently is and put it onto that object or player.
Rulings: ...the Aura with aura swap is put into your hand and the chosen Aura is put onto the battlefield attached to that permanent.
The parallel I'm looking at is a creature entering "tapped and attacking" that was never declared as an attacker, and doesn't get "whenever a creature attacks" triggers. If I aura swap an Aura onto Bramble Elemental, does its trigger go off? Does the new aura become attached, or does it simply enter in a state of attachedness?
Rhadamanthus on Can I flip face-down land?
3 weeks ago
icysonic5: Answers to your question have been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any more follow-ups or corrections that need to be made, I marked one of them as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel is the most helpful answer to your question.
DemonDragonJ on Will Pristine Angel Lose Her …
3 weeks ago
Gidgetimer, I imagine that she also works well with spells that have convoke.
HejcinBeLike on Gilraen, Dúnedain Protector and Aragorn, …
3 weeks ago
Thanks for the anwser and the tip :)