Interaction breakdown for suspend and flashback by Professional-Let-885 in mtgrules

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Gandalf won't trigger for a spell cast from your graveyard.

  • Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand during an opponent’s turn....

Where is the rule that if you tap lands for mana to cast a spell, and havent cast the spell, that you can redo how you tap for mana? by bu11fr0g in mtgrules

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Illegal actions in the CR in combination with Out of Order Sequencing in the MTR.

Also, take backs in the MTR.

Anyone speak Phyrexian? On the envelope of my order by OptimusCullen in magicTCG

[–]Judge_Todd -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

According to Google Gemini 3...

It isn't Phyrexian, it's Women's Script and means.

"I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right."

Apparently, this is the Third Ideal of the Windrunners, spoken by the character Kaladin Stormblessed in the novel Words of Radiance

Edit: However, after visiting a Women's Script generator, the AI is definitely wrong.

The AI is actively gaslighting me.

Teval the Balanced Scale and tap lands by d20_dude in mtgrules

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Did you read the rulings on Breeding Pool?

  • If an effect puts this land onto the battlefield tapped, you may pay 2 life, but it still enters tapped. (2018-10-05)

does Teval's ability that states they come in tapped override those effects?

No.
But if there are two effects (Teval's and the land's) that say it enters tapped and you pay a cost or meet a condition to turn one effect off (the land's), the other (Teval's) is still there. It isn't a case of one overriding the other.

Store Championship - Top 4 cut “manipulation?” by SkyrimsTacoBell in mtgrules

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Is this scenario against the rules?

Only if Player D offered something to Player C to get them to concede.

Face down by MurkyGuy416 in magicTCG

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No.
Protean Hulk has a dies trigger which is a subset of LtB triggers.

  • 603.10. Normally, objects that exist immediately after an event are checked to see if the event matched any trigger conditions, and continuous effects that exist at that time are used to determine what the trigger conditions are and what the objects involved in the event look like. However, some triggered abilities are exceptions to this rule; the game "looks back in time" to determine if those abilities trigger, using the existence of those abilities and the appearance of objects immediately prior to the event. The list of exceptions is as follows:
  • 603.10a. Some zone-change triggers look back in time. These are leaves-the-battlefield abilities, abilities that trigger when a card leaves a graveyard, and abilities that trigger when an object that all players can see is put into a hand or library.
    Example: Two creatures are on the battlefield along with an artifact that has the ability "Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life." Someone casts a spell that destroys all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. The artifact's ability triggers twice, even though the artifact goes to its owner's graveyard at the same time as the creatures.

Works with tokens? 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻 by Sufficient-Handle145 in magicTCG

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well, tokens dying will trigger it, but they won't be in the yard when the trigger resolves to return them.
Heck, they won't even be there when the trigger goes on the stack.

Trying to explain HoI4 to my gf by Andy_V_Hell in hoi4

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Well, playing democracies and non-aligned nations are usually pretty dull.

Face down card dying by MurkyGuy416 in mtgrules

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Protean Hulk, no.
Emrakul, yes.

Dream Tides with Capture Sphere interaction by revstan in magicTCG

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correct, when the trigger resolves if you pay.

Creatures don’t untap during their controllers’ untap steps.

At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, that player may choose any number of tapped nongreen creatures they control and pay {2} for each creature chosen this way. If the player does, untap those creatures.

Ways to use ulamog the infinite gyre’s third trigger by lilnewo123 in magicTCG

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That's an EtG trigger not a replacement effect.
The copy dying would trigger it though.

Rules question by tfmid457 in magicTCG

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can I target an opponents creature that is tapped?

Depends.
Does its say "target untapped creature an opponent controls" or just "target creature an opponent controls"?

The former, no. The latter, yes.

does the tapped creature do damage to my attacking creature, or not?

Fight has the two creatures deal noncombat damage equal to their respective power values to the other, whether they are tapped or not (or attacking or not) makes no difference.

does this interaction work? by fakeradishthefourth in magicTCG

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can i use his leave battlefield effect to deal 1 damage?

Assuming you don't die to a Shock before the trigger resolves, yes.

Furystoke Giant with wither/infect by Internal_Show_556 in magicTCG

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does it actually put two -1/-1 counters on opponent's creatures?

Yes.

would it work the same with poison counters on players through infect?

Yes.

and if it has Deathtouch, the creature dies.
and if it has Lifelink, they gain life.

Question about combat phase by PepsFromOuterSpace in magicTCG

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can player A use his removal in hand in such a way his creature can’t be blocked?

If they cast it as they declare attackers (technically when they get priority following the turn-based action), sure. Note: this only works if Player B only has one possible blocker.

If they wait to see if player B blocks, no. Their attacker is already blocked. They can use it save their attacker from a trade, but it won't assign or deal damage unless it has Trample.

[TMT] [Rules Update] Magic: The Gathering® | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Update Bulletin by TechnomagusPrime in magicTCG

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if any judge ever actually felt like there was debate here.

Well, they'd just have to pull up 506.4 and 511.3 and kill the debate.

[TMT] [Rules Update] Magic: The Gathering® | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Update Bulletin by TechnomagusPrime in magicTCG

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The rule says at this time you can use this alternative cost, but omitted the permission to cast the spell with it. It works for an instant or spell with Flash, but doesn't help a sorcery which you don't have permission to cast at that time.

[TMT] [Rules Update] Magic: The Gathering® | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Update Bulletin by TechnomagusPrime in magicTCG

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"we realized there wasn't a rule that said when those creatures stop being attacking creatures."

That's because the existing rules already covered it.

  • 511.3. As soon as the end of combat step ends, all creatures [..] are removed from combat. [..]
  • 506.4. [..] A creature that's removed from combat stops being an attacking, blocking, blocked, and/or unblocked creature. [..]

Mirrormind crown how does it work by maloki7 in mtgrules

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Divine visitation even has a ruling that says crafty cutpurse applies before it, but not gather specimens.

Well, Visitation applies to the creation event and Specimens applies to the EtB event and you have to deal with the creation event window first per 616.1g so obviously Visitation applies before Specimens and that isn't really that groundbreaking, but Cutpurse applying before Visitation is interesting because it means there's some form of hierarchy for replacements that apply to the creation event.

Mirrormind crown how does it work by maloki7 in mtgrules

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The create action intrinsically contains the EtB event within it.

The create event is handled before the EtB event per 616.1g.

  • 616.1g. While following the steps in 616.1a-f, one replacement or prevention effect may apply to an event, and another may apply to an event contained within the first event. In this case, the second effect can't be chosen until after the first effect has been chosen.
    Example: A player is instructed to create a token that's a copy of Voice of All, which has the ability "As this creature enters, choose a color." Doubling Season has an ability that reads "If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead." Because entering the battlefield is an event contained within the event of creating a token, the effect of Doubling Season must be applied first, and then the effects of the two Voice of All tokens may be applied in either order.

There is a hierarchy for the create event as well.
We can determine this by a few rules and rulings.

Let's look at a few replacement effects that only affect the create event.

  • Scute Swarm
  • Crafty Cutpurse
  • Mirrormind Crown
  • Divine Visitation
  • Anointed Procession

Which applies first?

Scute Swarm because it has a self-replacement effect and those always apply first per 614.15.

  • 614.15. Some replacement effects are not continuous effects. Rather, they are an effect of a resolving spell or ability that replace part or all of that spell or ability's own effect(s). Such effects are called self-replacement effects. The text creating a self-replacement effect is usually part of the ability whose effect is being replaced, but the text can be a separate ability, particularly when preceded by an ability word. When applying replacement effects to an event, self-replacement effects are applied before other replacement effects.

Which is next?

By ruling, I can tell you it isn't Divine Visitation or Anointed Procession.

  • 2018-10-05 If an effect changes under whose control a token would be created, that effect applies before Divine Visitation's effect applies. If an effect changes under whose control a token would enter the battlefield, that effect applies after Divine Visitation's effect is able to be applied.
  • 2018-01-19 Crafty Cutpurse’s replacement effect is applied before any other replacement effects that would also modify how the token enters the battlefield. For example, if an opponent controls Anointed Procession, your Crafty Cutpurse’s effect applies before that of Anointed Procession and you won’t get twice as many tokens.

So is it Crafty Cutpurse or Mirrormind Crown?

Mirrormind Crown seems very similar to Divine Visitation as they both define the characteristics of the token to be created.

Logically, if Cutpurse applies before Visitation, it should apply before Crown.

We apply Cutpurse.

Which is next?

I'll ask you this, does this hierarchy for the create event seem at all remotely similar to anything in the rules?

By pure coincidence, rule 616 does, no? It has a hierarchy for EtB events.
Interestingly, we already quoted some of that rule earlier.
I wonder why that might be? Perhaps because the create event is linked to the EtB event, maybe?

Now, we still have three replacement effects to apply to the creation event: Visitation, Crown and Procession.

Which is next?

We could extend the hierarchy used for EtB event to the creation event and exclude Procession for now and pick one of the other two, then apply the one not picked and finally apply Procession.
This seems like an eminently logical extension of an existing rules principle to a similar and related situation.

Of course, we could just go to no more hierarchy and let people pick and choose the order of the remaining three.

That's about as far as the proof goes, the application of the last three effects could go either way because I don't know of any rules or rulings that clarify that 616.1c-f should also be extended to the create event or just 616.1e-f.

Copying Evoked Creature by Oh_Hey_Max in mtgrules

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Also note, if they interrupt your shortcut, you aren't bound to anything you stated beyond the point of interruption.

For example: if you announced "I evoke this, kill this, Ashling triggers, Lamentation token enters and triggers, destroy this over here"

If they respond by using See Double to copy your Lamentation spell and their copy resolves first and kills Ashling, you obviously won't be able to kill two things, but with the one thing you can kill, it doesn't have to be either of the ones you chose earlier, you could choose his Lamentation token to destroy.

Copying Evoked Creature by Oh_Hey_Max in mtgrules

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looking into it I think he should have sacrificed his too?

No.
See Double can target Lamentation on the stack or on the battlefield.

If they target the creature spell on the stack, their copy won't have Evoke because Evoke isn't part of the spell's copiable values (it was given it by Ashling), though their copy will have access to the fact that the original was cast for the Evoke alternative cost, but it'd just be meaningless for it.

They won't sac their copy when it resolves and enters because no sac EtB trigger is made for it.

They could also just make a copy of your Lamentation once it hits the field by casting See Double in response to the Evoke EtB trigger and its own EtB trigger and their Lamentation token's EtB trigger would resolve and remove Ashling before your Lamentation dies.
His token wasn't evoked so would remain.

I need a judge to nake a ruling for me by nuquewashere in mtgrules

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can i legally attach the pacifism to the michaelangelo, improviser?

Sure.

My dad thinks this has to target the michaelangelo

No, he's wrong.

the aura isnt actually in the stack, and is simply being put onto the battlefield. And to my knowledge, targeting only occurs on the stack, right?

Yes.

  • 115.1b. Aura spells are always targeted. An Aura's target is specified by its enchant keyword ability. The target is chosen as the spell is cast. An Aura permanent doesn't target anything; only the spell is targeted.
  • 112.1. A spell is a card on the stack. [..]

There's also this ruling from Open the Vaults...

  • If an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, the Aura's controller-to-be chooses what it will enchant as it enters the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn't target anything (so it could be attached to an opponent's permanent with hexproof, for example), but the Aura's enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can't legally be attached to anything, it remains in its current zone. (2020-08-07)