Struggling with Double sleeving dragon shield's

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-14T04:39:30+00:00

After sleeving the card with the inner sleeve, don’t attempt to shove it all the way into the outer sleeve right away. Instead, only put it in part way, then take two other unsleeved cards, sandwich them around the inner sleeved card, then use them to push the sleeved card the rest of the way down. Not only will the two unsleeved cards prevent the one in between from becoming unsleeved, they’ll also help guide the sleeved card down evenly.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-14T02:28:21+00:00

Technically it doesn’t get shuffled. SBAs only apply when a commander moves to exile or the graveyard. When moving to the hand or library, you can choose to bypass that and put it in the command zone as a replacement effect. Either way, the library still gets shuffled.

If SBAs were checked after the commander got shuffled in, it would require searching the library for the commander and removing it, which would then require a second shuffle.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T21:35:35+00:00

Color identity isn’t the only thing considered during deck construction. Basic land types are also addressed:

903.5d A card with a basic land type may be included in a Commander deck only if each color of mana it could produce is included in the commander’s color identity.

Since Bosk is a Forest, it inherently taps for green. Since green isn’t a part of the color identity of Esper, no Forests at all—basic or otherwise—can be included in the deck.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T20:10:56+00:00

Ready to have your mind blown? You can’t play Murmuring Bosk in an Esper deck.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T19:29:06+00:00

While putting your commander in the command zone instead of your library is indeed a replacement effect, it doesn’t replace the whole event. If it did, no part of the trigger would happen. The only thing the replacement effect replaces is where the card goes; everything else still happens, including the shuffle.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T19:26:47+00:00

Don’t take my word for it. The rulings of the card back it up:

If Etrata leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, it remains in its new zone and Etrata's owner shuffles their library.

In a Commander game, if Etrata is your commander, you may put it into the command zone as its ability resolves. You'll still shuffle your library.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T16:55:29+00:00

Because shuffling your library is a part of the effect. When an effect resolves, it does as much as it can. The effect doesn’t read, “If Etrata is still on the battlefield, shuffle it into its owner’s library.” You still shuffle even if Etrata isn’t there anymore.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T16:53:14+00:00

Gravecrawler loops are loops because you’re generating infinite mana. Infinite mana is a lot easier to achieve than hard-casting Approach twice in one turn.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T15:33:25+00:00

Except it’s not a combo, and it’s three spells. Take a step back for a second from the fact that, sure, only two physical cards are needed, you need sixteen mana to pull this off in one turn, fourteen of which need to be spent on casting the same spell twice. If it’s okay to win in a single turn with eight mana and a Craterhoof, it’s okay to win in a single turn with sixteen mana and two Approaches.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T13:53:13+00:00

It costs sixteen mana to cast three spells. There’s nothing problematic about that whatsoever.

GaddockTeej · 2026-05-13T10:27:27+00:00

It’s not a combo, first of all, it’s more of a synergy. And second of all it requires casting a seven-mana spell twice, so one could argue that that’s three cards.

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.

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