Rhadamanthus on Tetsuko Umezawa and Prosthetic Injector
15 minutes ago
You're right, Tetsuko's ability would no longer apply. If something refers to a creature's power or toughness and doesn't specifically say "base power" or "base toughness" then it's talking about the creature's total power/toughness including any modifiers.
9-lives on Tetsuko Umezawa and Prosthetic Injector
5 hours ago
If I use Prosthetic Injector and I put it on a card to where it has more than 1 toughness, and that's the only attribute at 1, would that negate Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive's ability to give it unblockable?
Rhadamanthus on Pantlaza and green sun's zenith
1 day ago
ThyArtist1809: 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.
Bravet on Does Awakened Skyclave etb as …
1 day ago
ClockworkSwordfish Thanks! I forgot to check the rulings on it first before coming here haha
ClockworkSwordfish on Does Awakened Skyclave etb as …
1 day ago
Awakened Skyclave showing up does indeed trigger landfall! It merely isn't a land while outside of play so that casting it using the stack (meaning your opponent has an opportunity to counter it, among other things.) The relevant ruling can be seen highlighted here.
Bravet on Does Awakened Skyclave etb as …
1 day ago
Asking specifically to see if it triggers landfall
Bravet on Does Awakened Skyclave etb as …
1 day ago
When Invasion of Zendikar Flip is defeated and I cast Awakened Skyclave, does it enter as a land? It says "as long as it's on the battlefield, it is a land in addition to its other types" so does it enter as a creature then the effect applies giving it the land type or does it enter as a land?
ClockworkSwordfish on Illusionary Mask cost… CMC or …
1 day ago
You will have to provide the appropriate colours when playing a creature with Illusionary Mask. You're playing it facedown so your opponent won't know for sure if you did until it's flipped, but the Mask requires you pay the regular cost of the creature PLUS any amount of extra mana you want to make what it is less obvious.
JoeD64 on Illusionary Mask cost… CMC or …
1 day ago
Is the X on Illusionary Mask the CMC of the creature or the actual cost with the color pips?
Gidgetimer on Uncle Istvan
1 day ago
The rules for deathtouch means that any damage from a source with deathtouch is considered lethal damage. Since Uncle Istvan prevents all damage from creatures, damage from a creature with deathtouch is prevented and he will not die. If you give a spell deathtouch (as Judith, Carnage Connoisseur does) the rules for deathtouch still apply. So he will die to an Electrickery with deathtouch.
Rhadamanthus on Deflecting Palm + Spike Weaver
2 days ago
Your opponent gets to choose the result, so they will probably choose for you to take damage.
The official current text for Spike Weaver's last ability has been updated to say "Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn" to make it clear that it's a damage prevention effect. If multiple replacement and/or prevention effects are trying to modify how an event affects a player or object, then the affected player or controller of the affected object decides which one to apply first. The unused replacement/prevention effects might still be able to apply to the modified event or they might not. Since your opponent is the one about to be dealt damage, they're the "affected player" in this example.
Andromedus on Deflecting Palm + Spike Weaver
3 days ago
I have a Spike Weaver in play with an untapped land. I attack with a creature, my opponent has no blockers (or doesn't declare any). My opponent casts Deflecting Palm in response. In response to the Deflecting Palm, I activate the second ability of the Spike Weaver so that there's no damage that "would be dealt" to my opponent.
Does the Deflecting Palm do damage to me, or not?
MartinEMcArthur on Abrade and Deflecting Swat Question
3 days ago
Actually I already found the answer by googling haha, you can’t change the mode of the spell unfortunately
MartinEMcArthur on Abrade and Deflecting Swat Question
3 days ago
Could I change the spell’s *effect, I should say
MartinEMcArthur on Abrade and Deflecting Swat Question
3 days ago
So let’s say someone plays Abrade, or any other card that gives the player two or more separate options for a targeting effect. In this scenario let’s say the player chooses “3 damage to target creature” for Abrade. If I play Deflecting Swat in response to it, would I be able to change the spell’s target to “Destroy target artifact” instead? Not sure if it could work that way but at the same time I don’t see why not since it would be a legal target for the spell♂️
wallisface on Odric Lunarch Marshal and Redundant …
3 days ago
Correct there are still multiple instances and Odric will bestow Hexproof as you describe.
Bravet on Odric Lunarch Marshal and Redundant …
3 days ago
I see that one of the rulings for Odric, Lunarch Marshal says multiple instances of a keyword are redundant, but are there still multiple instances? I'm specifically thinking of Walking Skyscraper. If it starts combat untapped, Odric will give all my creatures hexproof (including Walking Skyscraper), so if I tap and attack with Walking Skyscraper, will it still have hexproof since Odric gave it another instance of hexproof?
Rhadamanthus on Does Gandalf the White cause …
4 days ago
Grimnix: 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 marking my own responses when I do this, but in this case it was the only option.
Rhadamanthus on Does a creature with protection …
4 days ago
Grenade55: 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.
Rhadamanthus on “It's still a [land].”
5 days ago
Yes, that's the correct interpretation of what the "it's still a land" language will do here. You would have an artifact creature (that isn't a land).
205.1b Some effects change an object’s card type, supertype, or subtype but specify that the object retains a prior card type, supertype, or subtype. In such cases, all the object’s prior card types, supertypes, and subtypes are retained. This rule applies to effects that use the phrase “in addition to its types” or that state that something is “still a [type, supertype, or subtype].” Some effects state that an object becomes an “artifact creature”; these effects also allow the object to retain all of its prior card types and subtypes. Some effects state that an object becomes a “[creature type or types] artifact creature”; these effects also allow the object to retain all of its prior card types and subtypes other than creature types, but replace any existing creature types.
Yesterday on “It's still a [land].”
6 days ago
I have a Machine God's Effigy enter the battlefield as a copy of an animated Spawning Pool, then I activate the Effigy's ability to become a creature.
Does “It's still a land” just mean “It's still the permanent types that it was at the activation of this ability”? I.E. does this translate to the Effigy becoming an artifact creature until end of turn?
wallisface on Dance of the Manse and …
6 days ago
No, the targets have to be legal when you put it on the stack, which they won’t be. Even ignoring that problem, Dance of the Manse returns everything at the same time, so there’d be no window for those graveyard cards to see Encroaching Mycosynth in play and be able to act on that
MartinEMcArthur on Dance of the Manse and …
6 days ago
Let’s say Encroaching Mycosynth is in my graveyard along with Brave the Sands and Faerie Seer, two nonartifact permanents. If I cast Dance of the Manse with X equal to 4, I’ll be able to return Encroaching Mycosynth, sure, but would I be able to also return the other two cards I mentioned? Would bringing back Encroaching Mycosynth immediately make the other cards in my graveyards artifacts, hence making them legal targets as long as they’re mana value is 4 or less?
Gidgetimer on Interaction of Celestial Toymaker and …
6 days ago
OK, I was just concerned about if the spell was grouping the cards (like how Fireball distributes damage) or the player (like Pyrotechnics) and couldn't find a CR reference.
wallisface on Interaction of Celestial Toymaker and …
1 week ago
Yes it would. It’s functionally the same as any other one of these effects, just with slightly less agency on your part.
Gidgetimer on Interaction of Celestial Toymaker and …
1 week ago
For the purposes of Celestial Toymaker does Hostile Negotiations count as causing "one or more players to guess or to group cards or permanents into a pile this turn"?
Crow_Umbra on Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
1 week ago
Mr. Orfeo will only double the power of one target creature per combat.
If you have something like Roaming Throne, Isshin, Two Heavens as One, or Strionic Resonator in play, you could potentially get additional Orfeo triggers, and double the power of additional target creatures beyond the first.
indieinside on Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
1 week ago
Does this mean single target creature per combat or can it boost multiple creatures per combat?
Rhadamanthus on Can Licia, Sanguine Tribune her …
1 week ago
Yes, this works. When you create a copy of an activated ability with Verrak, Illusionist's Bracers or something similar, you aren't "activating" that ability again, just making a copy of it, so any restrictions in the original ability about exactly when or how many times it can be activated won't interfere.
Grenthox on Can Licia, Sanguine Tribune her …
1 week ago
For example with Verrak, Warped Sengir, can the copy of Licia's Pay Life ability resolve despite the once each turn restriction?
Crow_Umbra on Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
1 week ago
As an additional example, Cold-Eyed Selkie is worded in a way so that you draw cards for the total amount of combat damage it deals.
Let's say Cold-Eyed Selkie is enchanted with a Rancor, and it connects for combat damage. If it connects with its full 3 damage, you will draw 3 cards.
Although their wordings have some similarities, their are some slight differences between "one or more" (Professional Face-Breaker, Grim Hireling, and Olivia, Opulent Outlaw), and "Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, X happens that many times" (Cephalid Constable, Cold-Eyed Selkie, and Needle Specter)
wallisface on Pantlaza and green sun's zenith
1 week ago
Whenever you cast a spell without paying its mana cost, X is always 0.
So in your example, the X in your Green Sun's Zenith will be 0
ThyArtist1809 on Pantlaza and green sun's zenith
1 week ago
Hi, i was just wondering if exemple i cast my Pantlaza, Sun-Favored so i discover 4, after that the first card that i discover is my Green Sun's Zenith what will happen ? do i get to pay the x and cast the zenith or it's automatically 4 due to the discover 4.
thanks
Crow_Umbra on Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
1 week ago
Let's say you attack an opponent with 3 creatures and all of them deal combat damage. You may then pay 1 life for each of those creatures that dealt combat damage and draw a card for each one.
Inversely, if your opponents deal combat damage to another of your opponents, Gix will trigger and give them the option to also pay 1 life per each creature that dealt combat damage, then draw.
If Gix was worded "Whenever one or more creatures...deals combat damage" instead, like Professional Face-Breaker, you would instead only draw 1 card for each opponent you dealt combat damage to. The way Face-Breaker is worded, you can only make 1 Treasure token per each opponent dealt combat damage, regardless of how many creatures that connect with each opponent.
indieinside on Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
1 week ago
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor is my commander. Can I only draw one card per combat? Or, let's say I have three creatures attack... does that mean I can draw three cards... or, Let's say I deal 5 "damage" can I draw 5 cards?
Rhadamanthus on Looking for the interaction of …
1 week ago
Yes the myriad tokens in the Vihaan-Cybermen example will be created. A resolving spell/ability will do as much as it can and skip any impossible parts. The tokens will be created tapped, since there's no problem with doing that part, they just won't be attacking since they aren't creatures. They will still get exiled at the end of combat so you'll need to get creative if you want to make use of them.
bhst5019 on Looking for the interaction of …
1 week ago
Can the treasure tokens even be created, since they cannot be attacking?
Rhadamanthus on Does Gandalf the White cause …
1 week ago
Yes, that's how it will work out. A "dies" trigger is a type of "leave the battlefield" trigger, so since an artifact leaving the battlefield caused Skullclamp to trigger in this example then Gandalf the White will cause it to trigger again.
Rhadamanthus on Looking for the interaction of …
1 week ago
There are different answers for these situations. For the Anikthea, Hand of Erebos question, the populated token will also be a black 3/3 Enchantment Creature - Zombie copy of Sterling Grove. For the Vihaan, Goldwaker / Cybermen Squadron question, the myriad tokens will be non-creature Treasures.
An object's "copiable characteristics" are its base printed characteristics plus the results of any other copy effects that are currently being applied to it (i.e. copying a Clone pretending to be Runeclaw Bear will make another Bear, not another Clone). For tokens, their "printed" characteristics are the ones they were created with. This means the copiable characteristics of Anikthea's tokens include the 3/3 black zombie creature part, but the copiable characteristics of Vihaan's awakened treasures are just regular treasures.
Grimnix on Does Gandalf the White cause …
1 week ago
If I have Gandalf the White on board. An Artifact creature wtih Skullclamp equipped to it and that creature dies, does Skullclamp trigger twice, resulting in 4 cards being drawn?
sergiodelrio on First Spell Eris, Roar of …
1 week ago
Yes.
Since Eris' last ability is a CAST trigger, it will go on the stack above Scampering Scorcher after you cast it, and resolve before the Scorcher resolves. Therefore you will have the elemental in play just in time for when the Scorcher enters the battlefield and gives haste to Elementals.
bhst5019 on Looking for the interaction of …
1 week ago
So, I have Anikthea, Hand of Erebos in play, it has copied a Sterling Grove. The 3/3 creature is now in play. I now copy it with a populate card. My question is about the token it produces. Is it a creature or just an enchantment? Also something that just copies a token, will the Sterling Grove be a creature?
This is a similar question. Vihaan, Goldwaker is in play with Cybermen Squadron. I head to combat making a treasure token a 3/3. I then attack with the token, triggering Myriad. Are the tokens made, 3/3 or are they just tapped regular treasure tokens?
Bblackboltt on First Spell Eris, Roar of …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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.