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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Obscura Storefront won't get sacrificed until after you're completely finished dealing with Cultivator Colossus' ETB trigger.

If a triggered ability triggers during the resolution of another spell or ability, it has to wait until that other spell/ability is finished resolving to be put onto the stack. The "repeat this process" part of Cultivator Colossus' ability is something that happens as part of the resolution of the original ETB trigger, it's not another trigger that's put onto the stack separately. The ETB trigger from Obscura Storefront won't be put onto the stack until you've stopped repeating the Cultivator Colossus process.

May 8, 2025 noon

You have to draw before searching and you don't get a choice.

State-based actions are checked and dealt with right before each time a player would get priority to take another action. In your example, that moment is right after you're completely finished with the process of activating Fertilid's ability, meaning the activated ability is already on the stack. When Fertilid dies to the 0-toughness SBA, Bequeathal will trigger and that trigger will go on top of Fertilid's ability.

April 28, 2025 12:16 p.m.

Lykan89: 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.

April 28, 2025 8:50 a.m.

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darthpaul74: 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.

April 23, 2025 9:08 a.m.

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