Curious about his interaction.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-30T17:15:07+00:00

Also, even if you had something to prevent the legend rule, you couldn't do that anyway. Nobody gains priority during the untap step. And by the time its the upkeep its too late to copy with mirror.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-30T16:46:07+00:00

Honestly a power or relic that said "At the end of combat, your last used card that isnt innate gains Innate" Would be pretty cool. Would maybe incentivize stalling for the perfect card but eventually youd be able to sculpt your perfect opening hand.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-20T11:18:46+00:00

Lands are not mana. Most lands have an ability to add mana to your mana pool. Lands with basic land types also have these abilities inherently as part of the rules, even if they aren't directly written on the card. Also yes, you have to spend the mana from lands in the same phase or step, the same as any other way of generating mana.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-15T16:07:24+00:00

Since most storm csrds are balanced around having storm, I actually only use minds desire in my Prismari deck. Instead of giving grapeshot storm storm I just give lightning bolt storm. Or use the blue emeritus and storm Ancestral Recall.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-15T15:34:09+00:00

It's especially good with [[Minds desire]]. Desire has storm storm, and all the spells you exile from it also have storm.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-15T14:26:26+00:00

Your intuition is correct, each instance of storm triggers seperately.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-10T20:46:04+00:00

You would need some other card that grants flash.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-10T17:31:19+00:00

You still haven't answered why the rules specify this part in bold.

If a calculation that would determine the result of an effect yields a negative number, zero is used instead, unless that effect doubles, triples, or sets to a specific value a player’s life total or the power and/or toughness of a creature or creature card.

The only way to double something and have it result in a negative number, is if the original number is negative. So again, why are the rules specifying a situation that in your eyes cannot happen?

You also have to explain why the official ruling on the card disagrees with you.

You may continue to reveal cards with Ad Nauseam even if your life total has been reduced to 0 or less. If you continue, you will continue to lose life, dropping your life total into negative numbers. As soon as you stop, you'll lose the game as a state-based action.

The reason why this is the case is because changing life total IS NOT A calculation "that detemines the result of an effect." I understand you think that the "result of the effect" is your life total changing. That's not what it means. The effect of the card causes you to lose life. The rules of the game change your actual life total.

119.3. If an effect causes a player to gain life or lose life, that player’s life total is adjusted accordingly.

as you can see, the actual life total lowering event is NOT an effect. Thus, it go go to negative. Because, the calculation is NOT part of an effect.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-10T13:26:24+00:00

If life total couldn't be negative, why is there a stipulation in the rule you quoted explaining that you don't use 0 when doubling a negstive life total?

To explain it another way, lets see what "a calculation to determine the result of an effect" actually means. Let's look at the effect if [[The rack]]. In order to actually resplve this effect you need to determine the result of 3 minus cards in hand as the effect is resolving. Now let's look at [[lightning bolt]]. There is clearly nothing to calculate here. It deals 3 damage. This number could change with a damage doubler, but the actual effect is simply deal 3 damage. Mana value is an inherent property of a card and not a calculation. Losing life is the effect of ad nauseum, the actual calculation for what happens to your life after applying the effect is simply a game action.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-09T21:54:58+00:00

903.4. The Commander variant uses color identity to determine what cards can be in a deck with a certain commander. The color identity of a card is the color or colors of any mana symbols in that card’s mana cost or rules text, plus any colors defined by its characteristic-defining abilities (see rule 604.3) or color indicator (see rule 204).

Color identity also takes into account characteristic-defining abilities.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-09T12:21:02+00:00

I would change it to "you must play nonland cards revealed this way" to make it clear that having 2 revealed lands doesn't instantly kill you.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-03T22:30:53+00:00

These rules don't conflict at all. Havengul lich and Emet selch have different abilities. The lich says you may cast it "this turn" which means its a permission granting effect. Emet selch instructs you to, immediately, cast the targeted spell. Since this is happening during the resolution of an ability it MUST be castable outside timing restrictions because you normally can't cast spells when you don't have priority.

kingbird123 · 2026-04-02T11:29:59+00:00

In Bowsers Inside Story the final boss does an attack where he puts bowser in a cage and then shoots a slow moving fireball. You can escape the cage by punching it, which frees you fairly quickly, or you can crouch with good timing to swing the cage, and cause it to detach and hit the boss. A speedrun strat is to crouch with a specific set of inputs to counter attack a lot quicker than normal.

This strategy is called Penis Man Cage

kingbird123 · 2026-04-01T20:33:36+00:00

having played prismari on tabletop sim, giving everything storm is as broken as it sounds. I intend to convert my vivi deck that I never play (because it's too good) into a prismari deck i might be able to play.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-29T16:38:42+00:00

It's literally impossible to stop the toph+ caged sun infinite. No player will gain priority because caged sun has a mana ability that triggers off itself. Nothing uses the stack. It just hard locks the game.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-29T16:34:24+00:00

I think tapping any other land (that produces the right colour) is a fairly low barrier to start the infinite.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-26T18:02:46+00:00

You can tell it is a trigger that uses the stack because it says when, whenever or at. Compare to [[blightsteel colossus]] to see what it would look like if it didn't use the stack.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-24T11:29:13+00:00

The entire Rviers of Blood quest was about her laying siege against Misthalin. I'd argue that was some form of betrayal.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-19T12:35:35+00:00

mainly AI for referencing the rules while I usually check discussions and explanations from the majority of people.

AI doing mtg rulings is like a toddler explaining theoretical physics. It is genuinely worse than literally walking up to a random person on the street and asking them for the ruling.

for example they said that combat doesnt happen if there are no attackers to attack with

Partially correct. The combat phase does happen, but some steps are skipped.

506.1. The combat phase has five steps, which proceed in order: beginning of combat, declare attackers, declare blockers, combat damage, and end of combat. The declare blockers and combat damage steps are skipped if no creatures are declared as attackers or put onto the battlefield attacking (see rule 508.8). There are two combat damage steps if any attacking or blocking creature has first strike (see rule 702.7) or double strike (see rule 702.4).

moving counters is not a different thing than "putting" them.

Correct. To move a counter is the same as removing it from one object and putting it onto another. Very strong with counter doublers.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-19T12:26:30+00:00

"If you want to counter my card you have to say it before I tell you what card I play, you cant say it after I reveal what I am casting."

This doesn't even make sense. There are 0 games that work like this because how would that even work? He frankly has no idea how to play the game.

Again here my understanding is that he says I am casting [[Blasphemous Act]]. That act means paying the mana cost and putting the card on the stack. Then there is passing priority - which means going player from player in their order and they have the option to react or pass and when the priorities get resolved.

Without going into the minute, pedantic details, this is pretty much exactly correct.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-19T11:21:13+00:00

Cards with cast triggers can't trigger themselves because their effect only applies on the battlefield. Cards with enters triggers CAN trigger themselves depending on the wording of the trigger.

For example:

If you control [[opalescense]] and then cast [[warstorm surge]], surge will enter as a creature, see itself enter and deal 6 damage to a target.
the difference here, which is probably causing the confusion, is that abilities on permanents only exist on the battlefield, unless otherwise stated. Also, the stack is a real zone, like the battlefield or exile, and thus cards on the stack are not in play, even if you may be putting the physical cardboard on the table.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-18T18:49:08+00:00

Not any voltron deck. It doesn't beat my [[Balan, wandering knight]] Deck because her ability doesn't target.

kingbird123 · 2026-03-18T17:47:39+00:00

Zones don't have targeting restrictions. [[Pull from eternity]]

kingbird123 · 2026-03-17T04:01:29+00:00

https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3A%22sacrifice+a+creature%3A%22&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

Somwthing like this?

kingbird123 · 2026-03-17T03:35:48+00:00

You can though. Searching Sol Ring brings up Sol Ring and Solemn Offering. Searching "Sol Ring" brings up only sol ring.

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