I'm Mike, from The Mana Pool.

I first learned to play around the release of Ice Age (1995-ish) and was strongly involved with playing casually and at local events until early 2020, when I had to back off for obvious reasons. I got back into playing a little bit in 2022 with a few prereleases and casual meet-ups here and there and I still enjoy keeping up with Magic news and new sets.

As a general rule, my deckbuilding is influenced far more than it should be by what I think would be "interesting/fun/funny" instead of what's probably the better choice of cards. The friend who first taught me how to play had a very strong philosophy of "Not every card is good, but pretty much any card can be made good" and the casual groups I spent the most time playing with over the years were always keen on figuring out how to make effective game plans from odd ideas. It was all immensely fun and it's still a big influence on my approach to the game.

I also tend to design and build strictly from my existing collection. If there's a good card for a deck that I don't have in a list, there's a good chance I don't own any, but please suggest it anyway so that maybe I'll remember to go out and find it.

I was a DCI-certified Rules Advisor under older versions of the Magic Judge program and I still keep up with new mechanics and rules changes. I'm the "rules guy" of my casual play group and I like to hang out in the Rules Q&A area here on Tapped Out. If you notice a mistake in one of my responses, don't be shy about pointing it out because above all else, I want whatever question I'm responding to to be answered correctly!

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Yes, assuming Increasing Vengeance (or whatever copy spell you're using) is the first Instant you've cast this turn. Twinning Staff will cause Alania, Divergent Storm to create two copies of Vengeance instead of one. You have one of the copies target Boltwave and the other target the original Vengeance. When the Vengeance-on-Vengeance copy resolves, it will create another two copies of Vengeance instead of just one, and you can keep it rolling from there.

The details of exactly how to execute this are up to your preference. One way is to have the Vengeance-on-Boltwave resolve before the Vengeance-on-Vengeance in each step, so you're ticking down Boltwaves one by one as the process continues until your opponents have all lost. In the other way where you have the Vengeance-on-Vengeance resolve first, you'll be stacking up Boltwaves until you feel like you finally have enough and make the last pair of Vengeance copies both target a Boltwave to end the chain and let everything else start resolving.

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Yes, that works. Marchesa's ability knows "that card" in the graveyard is the same object that triggered the "Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies" and it will get returned to the battlefield. Note that the card has to be a permanent card in order to be returned this way, as non-permanents (instants and sorceries) are not allowed to go to the battlefield.

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