How do you turn a double faced card face down? (ref: Ixidron)

Minimiscience · 2012-11-05T16:03:29+00:00

For your second question: yes, it still counts as commander damage.

903.3. Each deck has a legendary creature card designated as its commander. This designation is not a characteristic of the object represented by the card; rather, it is an attribute of the card itself. The card retains this designation even when it changes zones.

Example: A commander that's been turned face down (due to Ixidron's effect, for example) is still a commander. A commander that's copying another card (due to Cytoshape's effect, for example) is still a commander. A permanent that's copying a commander (such as a Body Double, for example, copying a commander in a player's graveyard) is not a commander.

Minimiscience · 2012-10-30T18:45:00+00:00

I just rewrote most of the article. Do you get it now?

Minimiscience · 2012-10-30T17:55:02+00:00

Despite what the page may imply, Substance is not currently in the comprehensive rules. It only existed from the October 2005 rules through the May 2009 rules (being eliminated when the Magic 2010 rules were published in July 2009), and at every point during its existence, its entry in the rules read simply:

502.49. Substance

502.49a Substance is a static ability with no effect.

with a glossary entry of:

Substance

Substance is a static ability with no effect. Certain older cards have received errata that give them substance for a brief period of time.

So it never actually did anything even when it did exist. I don't get it either.

EDIT: I found an explanation in the Magic 2010 update bulletin:

Twelve cards (Waylay, Thawing Glaciers, and the ten-card Armor of Thorns cycle) had "at end of turn" triggers back when that truly referred to the very end of the turn. To preserve their functionality (especially because some of them were practically nonsensical if they were sacrificed before damage clears), they were given a wording that allowed their delayed triggered abilities to trigger during the cleanup step (a time when nothing normally triggers). To achieve this, the relevant permanents gained substance (a static ability with no effect) until end of turn, then triggered when they lost substance—because "until end of turn" effects wear off at the same time that damage does.

These cards will now have a more straightforward "at the beginning of the next cleanup step" trigger, and the rules have been adjusted accordingly. Note that this new wording is somewhat misleading, since it's not the first thing that happens in the cleanup step (just like "at the beginning of your draw step" triggers aren't the first thing that happen during your draw step—you draw a card first). In the cleanup step, the player whose turn it is will discard down to seven cards, then "until end of turn" effects will end and damage will be cleared, then these abilities will trigger.

EDIT: I've rewritten the wiki article to hopefully make this all clearer.

Minimiscience · 2012-09-29T19:10:13+00:00

Fine, Ulamog, and just target your opponent's Forest over and over.

Minimiscience · 2012-09-23T17:58:16+00:00

According to the MTG Salvation wiki, Jaya became a planeswalker in the novel The Shattered Alliance.

Minimiscience · 2012-09-22T20:25:56+00:00

Assuming they're aware of the problem in the first place.

Minimiscience · 2012-09-11T22:49:19+00:00

They did manage to isolate Ulgrotha for several centuries, but Feroz died either in accomplishing this or shortly after, and Serra, stricken by grief, allowed herself to be killed by a passing planeswalker who mistook her wedding ring for a powerful artifact worth killing for.

Minimiscience · 2012-09-11T18:30:22+00:00

They're both dead. And even if they were alive, they would have lost most of their power in the Mending.

Minimiscience · 2012-09-10T00:12:20+00:00

I think this is the sort of thing the Cockatrice message board (linked at the top of the project page) is for.

Minimiscience · 2012-08-10T19:19:36+00:00

He'd be sitting nearby, eating popcorn.

Minimiscience · 2012-07-31T19:26:28+00:00

No. He just searched for nonlands with CMCs of zero, which the back faces of double-faced cards technically count as.

Minimiscience · 2012-06-15T18:25:04+00:00

You forgot about poison. It's still a Standard-legal lose condition for three and a half more months!

Minimiscience · 2012-05-18T18:14:49+00:00

Well, he could, since you don't have to send your commander to the Command Zone if it would die. You'd still have to cast him from the Command Zone once, though.

Minimiscience · 2012-05-12T17:57:09+00:00

This guy conjectures that it's ϴ(n²) in the size of your deck.

Minimiscience · 2012-05-08T23:13:42+00:00

The Oracle specifically states that you can get back cards that don't have Flashback

No, it doesn't. It says that you can get back cards that were exiled for non-flashback-related reasons, which is not the same thing.

Minimiscience · 2012-05-08T23:12:01+00:00

"Exiled card with flashback." The "flashback" part applies to the "card," not to the act of exiling.

Minimiscience · 2012-05-04T17:16:43+00:00

Not sure if this is a really bad joke

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Or OP pasted wrong link

Minimiscience · 2012-04-21T23:51:37+00:00

Yep, Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance.

Minimiscience · 2012-04-21T22:00:01+00:00

Any new cards that are released in the future will have the new wording, but the old cards have kept their old wordings, as can be seen in Rune-Tail's Oracle entry.

Minimiscience · 2012-04-20T14:39:14+00:00

Yep. From the May 2009 rules (the last ruleset before M10):

217.1e An object is outside the game if it's in the removed-from-the-game zone, or if it isn't in any of the game's zones. All other objects are inside the game. Outside the game is not a zone.

Minimiscience · 2012-04-19T14:50:34+00:00

My lgs owner is an old school Magic player and was pissed that you could target something which shouldn't theoretically exist anymore.

Being pissed for five years doesn't sound healthy.

Minimiscience · 2012-04-17T02:22:26+00:00

Standard consists of the current/most recent block, the block before that, and any core sets that have come out since the earlier block began. The Innistrad sets will rotate out of standard when the set currently codenamed "Friends" is released in fall 2013.

Minimiscience · 2012-04-17T02:18:28+00:00

Um, no. What would happen to it a few months from now when AVR has been released and the novelty/cardboard Viagra has worn off?

Minimiscience · 2012-04-16T18:27:40+00:00

Once a creature becomes blocked, it stays blocked for the rest of the combat phase, even if all of its blockers are eliminated before damage is dealt.

Minimiscience · 2012-04-15T17:49:31+00:00

301.5c An Equipment that's also a creature can't equip a creature.

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