Proper Game Etiquette

Asked by bobingham 8 years ago

Hey! I was wondering, say I have Pili-Pala and Grand Architect on the field. I want to combo with Pili-Pala for, say, 100 blue mana. Do I actually need to tap and untap Pili-Pala, declaring what I am doing, 100 times? Or would performing it once, and explaining my intention suffice? Thanks!

Denial048 says... Accepted answer #1

You can explain to your opponent what you want to do, and if they understand, then you can take a shortcut to the end of the sequence.

For some opponents, you may need to run through the steps a few times to explain exactly what is going on.

716.2. Taking a shortcut follows the following procedure.

716.2a At any point in the game, the player with priority may suggest a shortcut by describing a sequence of game choices, for all players, that may be legally taken based on the current game state and the predictable results of the sequence of choices. This sequence may be a non-repetitive series of choices, a loop that repeats a specified number of times, multiple loops, or nested loops, and may even cross multiple turns. It cant include conditional actions, where the outcome of a game event determines the next action a player takes. The ending point of this sequence must be a place where a player has priority, though it need not be the player proposing the shortcut.

716.2b Each other player, in turn order starting after the player who suggested the shortcut, may either accept the proposed sequence, or shorten it by naming a place where he or she will make a game choice thats different than whats been proposed. (The player doesnt need to specify at this time what the new choice will be.) This place becomes the new ending point of the proposed sequence.

716.2c Once the last player has either accepted or shortened the shortcut proposal, the shortcut is taken. The game advances to the last proposed ending point, with all game choices contained in the shortcut proposal having been taken. If the shortcut was shortened from the original proposal, the player who now has priority must make a different game choice than what was originally proposed for that player.

March 30, 2016 12:20 a.m.

shinobigarth says... #2

tl;dr

you explain to your opponent that you are going to use these 2 cards to produce X amount of blue mana (you have to name a number, you can't make infinite mana, but you can say like 1 million or whatever), and then ask them if they have any responses at any point in the loop (such as destroying either of the permanents or anything else that stops it), and if not, then you simply shortcut it and tell them you've added X blue mana to your pool.

March 30, 2016 2:05 a.m.

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