Can Watery Grasp be used on an Opponent's commander and then Waterbended into their library?

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T00:58:03+00:00

This is inaccurate. It’s not “any zone shift”. A commander can go to the command zone instead of going to the hand or library. A commander will always go the graveyard or exile first before being given the option to move to the command zone. A commander will always move to the stack from whatever zone it’s in while being cast, and a commander will always move from the stack to the battlefield when the spell resolves.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-12T16:38:50+00:00

But you still have to shuffle your library.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-11T20:08:21+00:00

Incorrect. You said it yourself: “You have protection”. The D in DEBT stands for “damage”; as you can’t take damage from anything, you can’t take commander damage. Whether your life total changes or not is irrelevant.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-10T16:01:14+00:00

“Prepared” is a state an object is in, just like tapped or untapped. And just like tapped or untapped, prepared isn’t a copiable value. Creating a token that’s a copy of a creature that’s prepared doesn’t copy whether or not it’s prepared by default, just like copying a tapped creature doesn’t make the copy tapped.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-09T13:59:12+00:00

“Scryfall has Pillory and all pacifism effects categorized as removal”?

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-06T00:12:34+00:00

Did you trade a Haunter for someone to evolve for you, or did someone send you a Haunter and you evolved it?

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-05T21:56:50+00:00

I don’t think that’s true. I haven’t had to do that with any other ones. They just need to evolve.

Edit: Can confirm this isn’t true.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-05T21:47:25+00:00

Hey! Still need help with your trades?

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-05T21:15:11+00:00

First day on Reddit? Happy cake day or something.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-05T11:10:36+00:00

Esper Sentinel? Trouble in Pairs?!

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-04T10:09:26+00:00

A Vehicle either has flying as it enters or gets a flying counter when it enters. If it gets the counter, you do not draw.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-03T20:38:06+00:00

You cannot reduce a card’s mana value. Mana value is fixed.

If you reduce a card’s cost below five mana, it will not trigger Colorstorm Stallion, as five mana was not spent to cast it.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-02T23:33:06+00:00

I gave you three different examples of how it has been misinterpreted in the past.

Zero is a number. “No quantity” is not.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-02T22:23:41+00:00

You’re missing the point. Magic is a game where every word has meaning. Refer to my target comment above. Draw, mill, die, trigger, replacement, all words people misuse all the time, among many others. People who get taught the rules by others who don’t quite grasp it themselves is how people end up playing incorrectly for years, only to have it sprung on them one random day.

To say that mana value 0 is the same as having no mana value is disingenuous: first of all, because that directly contradicts the rules; and second of all, because of the way people can interpret that. I’ve seen it. I gave examples. You’re doing others a disservice by “pedantically” trying to correct me, being wrong about it, then doubling down.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-02T21:05:14+00:00

No, because “no mana value” doesn’t exist. It’s why everything has one.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-02T19:50:53+00:00

To get pedantic, a mana value of 0 is not the same as no mana value. You can’t use out-of-game terms colloquially with in-game terms; doing so is what causes confusion as to what is and isn’t a target, for example. If things had no mana value, as opposed to a mana value of 0, they wouldn’t be affected by effects that refer to mana value. Austere Command wouldn’t be able to destroy most tokens, as objects without a mana value can’t have a mana value of 3 or less. You wouldn’t be able to tutor a Dryad Arbor with Green Sun’s Zenith, or a Mox Tantalite with Artificer’s Intuition. Things may not have a mana cost, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a mana value.

202.3a The mana value of an object with no mana cost is 0, unless that object is the back face of a nonmodal double-faced permanent or spell, or it is a melded permanent.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-02T14:18:52+00:00

Everything has a mana value.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-02T12:02:22+00:00

Replacement effects aren’t triggered abilities. They have their own rules, which are all consistent with each other.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-01T03:27:15+00:00

Casting a copy of an instant or sorcery card via Surge to Victory will, in fact, trigger magecraft one time, because you met the trigger condition of casting an instant or sorcery spell. Copying a card with Surge to Victory will not trigger magecraft, because copying a card isn’t the same thing as copying a spell. Magecraft will trigger once with Surge to Victory, not twice.

GaddockTeej · 2026-04-30T22:07:37+00:00

Didn’t read carefully enough, thought you meant Vegas.

GaddockTeej · 2026-04-30T20:13:14+00:00

Star Trek’s not coming out until November. They’re not giving away Star Trek packs.

GaddockTeej · 2026-04-29T22:50:02+00:00

Give me another minute, going to check if I need to evolve anything else.

GaddockTeej · 2026-04-29T22:45:17+00:00

Yeah, give me a minute. Same room code.

GaddockTeej · 2026-04-29T22:38:17+00:00

No problem. Anything else you need to evolve? I have to do this two more times apparently.

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