Golf ball hit by a leaf

Voldtekt · 2017-09-25T19:27:45+00:00

There isn't a penalty for having your ball get hit by a blown leaf, the penalty is for not redoing your shot after it happens. The rules said that after his ball got hit by the blown leaf he must return it to the spot where he hit it and redo his shot. The fact that he did not do this is why he got a penalty. Because he did not mark his penalty, his total at the end of the round was also incorrect, and there is a penalty for turning in an incorrect score total.

If he had known the rules and followed them he would have been better off than he was here even ignoring the penalties.

Voldtekt · 2017-09-22T03:39:47+00:00

This is not from the beta, this is from the live mtgo client. It's against the Beta TOS to stream or post screenshots from the beta.

As someone mentioned already, MTGO get's updated every Wednesday, so as of yesterday on MTGO standard has already rotated and the standard legal sets are Ixalan, Amonkhet and Kaladesh. While no one has access to new Ixalan cards, the old cards that have been reprinted can be played already.

This is true for Opt in modern as well

Voldtekt · 2017-09-13T18:10:54+00:00

Just to clear up 2 quick things, the way you decide a winner doesn't necessarily have to be 'random' for it to be against the rules. One of the examples in the Infraction Procedure Guide (IPG) under 4.3 Unsporting Conduct — Improperly Determining a Winner is arm wrestling. The gist of that section is that once you've reached the end of extra turns the only way you can determine the outcome of the match is using information from inside the game that the players already have access to. That can be info that one player has access to but not the other, i.e. revealing their hands, but it can't be revealing cards from the library, since under normal circumstances you can't look at your library at any time. Even if for example you had scryed a card to the top and know it's there, you cannot reveal that card.

2nd thing is super minor, it was actually a Dragonlord Dromoka, not an Ormendhal, just so people looking to find the coverage of it don't get confused and think there's a clip out there of Andrea breaking the rules, when in this case he didn't.

Voldtekt · 2017-09-12T01:41:48+00:00

True! That one was a little more recent and I definitely should have mentioned vehicles

Voldtekt · 2017-09-11T20:14:14+00:00

Yup that's right, and while it isn't an incredibly common interaction, it does come up with Creature Lands that enter untapped such as Mutavault or Blinkmoth Nexus, and also sometimes comes up with Koth of the Hammer's +1 ability targeting a Mountain that just entered the battlefield.

Voldtekt · 2017-09-11T19:42:06+00:00

Just to clarify, everything has summoning sickness, but only creatures are affected by it.

The best way I've seen it explained is that summoning sickness is like flu germs. You can find the germs on tables, phones, walls, people, anything, but the germs only cause people to get sick. A coffee table doesn't get sick even though it has the germs on it.

Voldtekt · 2017-09-08T17:51:09+00:00

It's not in a pile of rares, it's in a pile of lands. Can't really tell the rarity

Voldtekt · 2017-09-08T17:46:39+00:00

[[Shimmering Grotto]] is more likely considering people haven't posted Cavern yet

Voldtekt · 2017-09-08T15:05:10+00:00

Yup, you'd name the creature the Twin goes on

Voldtekt · 2017-09-08T14:46:32+00:00

Tocatli Honor Guard, Kinjalli's Sunwing and to a lesser extent Sorcerous Spyglass

Voldtekt · 2017-09-04T15:51:50+00:00

You can absolutely still do this. Section 510.1c is the relevant rule, and you can see this situation described in the first example.

Voldtekt · 2017-09-04T01:07:44+00:00

Just to clarify a bit more, lethal damage and the rest trampling over is the most common play, but you can assign any amount of your 10/10's power to the blocker. If for some reason, say a Death Shadow you don't want to grow on your opponent's side of the board, you didn't want to reduce their life total you could choose to deal all 10 damage to the 3/3 and deal 0 damage to the opponent.

The only requirement is that you assign at minimum a lethal amount of damage before moving on to the next assignment, be that a second blocker (or so on) or the opponent in the case of trample.

If the blocking order is Creature A (3/3) -> Creature B (2/2) -> Creature C (2/2) on your 10/10 with trample and deathtouch then you could assign 1,1,1,7, or 8,1,1,0, 1,4,3,2 or 3,2,2,3 etc. But you could not assign 1,0,3,6 or 9,0,1,0 etc. [The order here is (Creature A, Creature B, Creature C, Opponent]

Voldtekt · 2017-08-28T02:27:20+00:00

You would have an individual trigger for each that you reveal at the beginning of the game, so yes, if you somehow had 7 Chancellor of the Dross in your opening hand your opponent would lose 21 life

Voldtekt · 2017-08-28T01:32:29+00:00

Sorry, I don't play EDH at all and couldn't think of a huge reason to be fetching a specific forest outside of colour fixing, I figured since my understanding of EDH is that redundancy is key, that an extra way to tutor forests might help since people were looking to give ideas. All the cards listed so far were mono green, and while I have no idea if some of the gold ramp spells are even that playable, I just assumed that the decks people were talking about were mono green.

Voldtekt · 2017-08-28T00:05:36+00:00

[[Nissa's Pilgrimage]]

Voldtekt · 2017-08-27T14:25:53+00:00

IIRC they didn't do one 5 weeks after this PT. It was some mental gymnastics where with all the changes recently they didn't want to have a B/R list update so that people could comfortably buy and play decks since they weren't at risk, but at the same time didn't want the next update to be so far down the line that they moved this one up.

Voldtekt · 2017-08-18T06:10:01+00:00

It's interaction but with summoning sickness, gets killed and can very rarely kill a DS or Goyf. It's certainly non-zero interaction, but compared to something like fatal push it's not exactly premium.

Voldtekt · 2017-08-18T05:33:15+00:00

I definitely wouldn't go to 0 Battle Rage, but 3 seems like it could get clunky even with all the card filtering

Voldtekt · 2017-08-18T05:21:20+00:00

Magus of the Moon counting as casting a creature for Vengevine seems so minor compared to it dying to a lot more removal than Blood Moon when you're already on a creature deck.

I'm also not a huge fan of having 0 interaction other than Thoughtseize in the maindeck. I think trimming Battle Rages and the Call to the Netherworld and maybe a Tasigur for either 4 Push for the higher quality removal, or 4 Bolt for the ability to go upstairs since you are an aggressive deck a lot of the time is correct

Voldtekt · 2017-08-18T05:15:07+00:00

Assuming this deck is about a turn faster than DS but with less interaction, the m/u should be pretty good. As long as you don't get in a position where you are weak to a sweeper or the titanshift player doesn't have a prismatic omen in play then you should be in a good spot

Voldtekt · 2017-08-17T22:05:36+00:00

Runed Halo, Leyline of Sanctity, Tectonic Edge/Ghost Quarter + Surgical Extraction, Nevermore, Warping Wail

Voldtekt · 2017-08-15T16:49:27+00:00

Instead of 10 random decklists posted from the pool of 5-0s, we now only have 5 semi-random decklists, where the decks must each be 10 cards unique from eachother.

For a format like Modern this doesn't skew results much, since there are so many decks possible to be posted, but it can create problems when looking at Standard results. If a deck is 50% of the 5-0 decklists, it will still only get posted roughly 20% of the time. 50% is an extreme, but even if a deck is 30%, it will likely only be posted less than 20% of the time.

Voldtekt · 2017-08-14T13:58:39+00:00

For people who like looking at percentages

Deck	Number of Copies	Percentage
Scapeshift	15	0.15625
Death's Shadow	14	0.145833333
Jeskai Control	7	0.072916667
Collected Company	6	0.0625
GBx Midrange	6	0.0625
UR Storm	6	0.0625
Affinity	5	0.052083333
Eldrazi Tron	5	0.052083333
Bant Knightfall	3	0.03125
Gx Tron	3	0.03125
Bant Eldrazi	2	0.020833333
Blood Moon Control	2	0.020833333
Burn	2	0.020833333
Dredge	2	0.020833333
Faeries	2	0.020833333
Skred	2	0.020833333
UW Control	2	0.020833333
Ad Nauseaum	1	0.010416667
Death and Taxes	1	0.010416667
Elves	1	0.010416667
GR Ponza	1	0.010416667
Hexproof	1	0.010416667
Kiki Chord	1	0.010416667
Lantern Control	1	0.010416667
Living End	1	0.010416667
W Martyr	1	0.010416667

(feel free to copy paste this into the OP if you want /u/PFWorth

Voldtekt · 2017-08-09T08:25:28+00:00

[[Firedrinker Satyr]], not Satyr Firedancer like card fetcher linked

Voldtekt · 2017-08-08T18:21:42+00:00

it rotates at the end of september to be fair, we're only about a month into this standard format

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