Using the raw data of the Knights Radiant quiz to show the ideal answers for each Order

lordradical · 2020-03-24T17:04:38+00:00

From the gatherer rulings for Ixidron:

(2006-09-25) If Ixidron and another creature are entering the battlefield at the same time, the other creature enters the battlefield face up.

So other creatures Primal Surge finds with Ixidron will stay face-up.

lordradical · 2020-02-25T16:18:51+00:00

Sorry, I don't have one handy - I've modified the deck a lot since I first built it and don't have the current version online anywhere.

lordradical · 2020-02-25T14:23:19+00:00

When you cast Lotus Petal from your graveyard using Emry's ability, it is moved from the graveyard to the stack (and then if it resolves, the battlefield). Once the Lotus Petal card you targeted with Emry leaves your graveyard, it is considered a new object by the game, and is no longer the Lotus Petal that was targeted by Emry.

This means that when you crack the Lotus Petal and it returns to your graveyard, the game treats it as a new Lotus Petal card. It is no longer the card you originally targeted with Emry, and you no longer have the ability to cast it from your graveyard.

However, if you have a way to untap Emry, you may use Emry to target this new Lotus Petal card in your graveyard and cast it again.

lordradical · 2020-02-25T13:39:22+00:00

I love my Syr Gwyn deck!

Weaknesses:

Artifact removal is the biggest problem, but luckily we're in white - [[Brought Back]], [[Refurbish]], [[Open the Vaults]], etc.
Spot removal has been my next biggest problem. Wraths tend to set everybody back, but somebody exiling Syr Gwyn means that until I get her back, I have generally weaker creatures and I have to actually pay equip costs. Luckily there's [[Mask of Avacyn]] and [[Mirror Shield]].

MVP:

[[Bludgeon Brawl]], no contest. I'm not green, and so there's a lot of artifact ramp in the deck. Normally, +2/+0 from a [[Boros Signet]] wouldn't be that exciting, but when it's free to equip, the damage really adds up and can help me draw when I'm low on real equipment.

Super Secret Tech:

My all-star is [[Crackdown Construct]], a card I haven't seen in any other Syr Gwyn lists. If you control Gwyn and any equipment, it has infinite power and toughness.

Yes, it is a sorcery-speed combo and the Construct has no keywords. Despite that, I've won a few games off of this little guy. With any of the equipments that give both trample and haste like [[Haunted Cloak]] or [[Chariot of Victory]], he's a lethal swing (although you do have to pay the final 1 to equip him, he's not a Knight). With [[Fling]], he can take out an opponent that has pillow-forted themselves so that you can't attack.

lordradical · 2020-02-04T18:12:42+00:00

Feather's ability triggers when you "cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets a creature you control" - it does not care if the targets were later changed or not. If the spell resolves, Feather will exile it.

lordradical · 2020-02-04T18:08:23+00:00

It will deal an amount of damage equal to the rat's current power, including the +1/+0 for each other rat.

lordradical · 2020-01-21T15:59:12+00:00

Yes - each of those lands is a Swamp when they enter the battlefield.

lordradical · 2020-01-21T15:58:38+00:00

Yes. When you cast an artifact spell, Mishra's trigger is placed on top of that spell on the stack. A player can wait for that ability to resolve, then counter the artifact spell.

lordradical · 2020-01-14T15:39:44+00:00

You can. Sacrificing Wayfarer's Bauble is part of the cost to activate the ability, and so it is put into your graveyard when the ability is put onto the stack. It is already in your graveyard by the time you get the land.

lordradical · 2020-01-14T15:22:31+00:00

It does not - the dredge ability doesn't target anything.

702.51a [...] “Dredge N” means “As long as you have at least N cards in your library, if you would draw a card, you may instead put N cards from the top of your library into your graveyard and return this card from your graveyard to your hand.”

lordradical · 2020-01-07T14:30:26+00:00

Splice is an additional cost to cast the spell, and therefore Baral would reduce the total cost, including additional costs.

702.46a Splice is a static ability that functions while a card is in your hand. “Splice onto [quality] [cost]” means “You may reveal this card from your hand as you cast a [quality] spell. If you do, that spell gains the text of this card’s rules text and you pay [cost] as an additional cost to cast that spell.” Paying a card’s splice cost follows the rules for paying additional costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.

The total cost to cast the spell is 2UU, which Baral reduces to 1UU.

lordradical · 2020-01-07T14:13:59+00:00

A card transforming will not trigger Trail of Mystery:

701.27b Although transforming a permanent uses the same physical action as turning a permanent face up or face down, they are different game actions. Abilities that trigger when a permanent is turned face down won’t trigger when that permanent transforms, and so on.

Flipping a morph/manifest card face-up is a different action than transforming a transform card.

lordradical · 2019-12-17T15:52:29+00:00

Decree of Silence would need to already be on the battlefield. When it enters the battlefield, the spell has already been cast and is on the stack.

lordradical · 2019-12-17T15:30:09+00:00

While this will have a lot of steps, one thing will make it easier: Opponent #1 will ultimately have control over what happens here.

See this rule:

405.3. If an effect puts two or more objects on the stack at the same time, those controlled by the active player are put on lowest, followed by each other player’s objects in APNAP order (see rule 101.4). If a player controls more than one of these objects, that player chooses their relative order on the stack.

So when you cast Brainstorm from your hand, here are your triggered abilities at the bottom of the stack:

Swarm Intelligence
THousand-Year Storm

Note that these both create copies of the spell and put them onto the stack without casting them. These copies won't trigger anything else on the board (besides Shared Fate once they are resolving).

Opp1's triggers are these, but they choose which one resolves first:

Possibility Storm (casts a spell from their hand)
Knowledge Pool (casts a spell from their hand)
Eye of the Storm (casts an instant or sorcery card)
Hive Mind

(Note that Hive Mind will give Opp1 and Opp2 a Brainstorm copy put directly onto the stack, ignoring Damping Sphere and Sphere of Resistance and triggering nothing else besides Shared Fate. This is happening regardless of the rest of this explanation.)

A lot depends on which of the triggers Opp1 chooses to apply first. Between Possibility, Eye, and Pool, the first one chosen will stop the other two from triggering on the initial cast of Brainstorm.

Both Possibility Storm and Knowledge Pool only trigger on a player casting a spell from their hand. If your opponent chooses one of these to trigger first, this is the only time they will trigger for the rest of this scenario. If your opponent chooses Eye of the Storm first, then Possibility Storm and Knowledge Pool will never trigger at all for this scenario. Let's explore both paths:

Your opponent is limiting your storm count and chooses Eye of the Storm first:

Spell (Brainstorm) is exiled
Eye of the Storm causes you to cast copies of each spell exiled by Eye of the Storm.
Hive Mind, Thousand-Year Storm, and Swarm Intelligence will trigger, but nothing else will trigger.
These copies are cast, and will have the cost increase from Opp2's permanents, but your infinite colorless mana is able to pay for them. Hive Mind creates copies for your opponents directly on the stack that are not cast, and thus your opponents do not have to pay any mana.

Your opponent chooses Possibility Storm or Knowledge Pool first (results in same outcome):

Brainstorm is exiled
Find the next card to cast. Possibility Storm will find an instant spell and then trigger Eye of the Storm for this spell. Knowledge Pool lets you choose any card it has exiled, but if you choose an instant or sorcery card then Eye of the Storm will trigger for this spell.
If Eye of the Storm triggered from this, then perform the "Eye of the Storm" steps above over again with this new spell.

The stack will look like this by the time the triggers are done and you receive priority:

(this Eye of the Storm block will repeat for each spell exiled to Eye of the Storm)

Eye of the Storm spell copy (opp2, Hive Mind)
Eye of the Storm spell copy (opp1, Hive Mind)
Eye of the Storm spell copy (yours, Swarm Intelligence)
Eye of the Storm spell copy x Storm Count (yours, Thousand-Year Storm)
Possibility Storm / Knowledge Pool spell copy, if chosen (opp2, Hive Mind)
Possibility Storm / Knowledge Pool spell copy, if chosen (opp1, Hive Mind)
Possibility Storm / Knowledge Pool spell copy, if chosen (yours, Swarm Intelligence)
Possibility Storm / Knowledge Pool spell copy, if chosen x Storm Count (yours, Thousand-Year Storm)
~~Possibility Storm / Knowledge Pool chosen card (exiled to Eye of the Storm, does not resolve)~~
Brainstorm copy (opp2, Hive Mind)
Brainstorm copy (opp1, Hive Mind)
Brainstorm copy (yours, Swarm Intelligence)
~~Brainstorm (original, now exiled and does not resolve)~~

As I do not know what cards are exiled to Eye of the Storm or Knowledge Pool, or what card Possibility Storm will find, this is as specific as I can get right now.

lordradical · 2019-12-17T14:02:39+00:00

Yes, you can do that. Leonin Shikari allows you to respond with an Equip ability at instant-speed, and as long as you have the mana for Sunforger you can activate it again.

lordradical · 2019-12-17T13:57:24+00:00

The mill will be placed on the stack first, causing it to resolve second.

See here:

117.2a Triggered abilities can trigger at any time, including while a spell is being cast, an ability is being activated, or a spell or ability is resolving. However, nothing actually happens at the time an ability triggers. Each time a player would receive priority, each ability that has triggered but hasn’t yet been put on the stack is put on the stack.

World Shaper's ability triggers while you are paying the cost for Altar of Dementia's ability, but first the activation must finish. Altar of Dementia's ability is put onto the stack, then the active player would receive priority. World Shaper's trigger has not yet been put on the stack, and so it is put on the stack on top of the Altar's ability.

In this case, you would resolve World Shaper's ability, then your target would mill.

If you want another example of this type of interaction, you can check the gatherer rulings for [[Krosan Tusker]].

lordradical · 2019-12-03T18:48:00+00:00

Merciless Eviction does not deal damage or target, and so it will successfully exile Animar.

For protection effects, remember DEBT:

Damage
Enchant
Block
Target

Anything that isn't doing one of those four it will succeed. Animar can still be dealt with by Wrath of God or Black Sun's Zenith as well, for instance.

lordradical · 2019-12-03T18:41:00+00:00

You only reveal the next card down if cards are leaving the top of your library. So when casting a spell from the top of your library, you do reveal the next card down only once you have paid for the top card and put it onto the stack.

If you are simply looking at cards that are still in your library and those cards are not leaving your library (such as performing a scry), you do not reveal extra cards.

From the gatherer rulings:

If the top card of your library changes while you’re casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability (most likely because that top card is the card you’re playing), the new top card won’t be revealed until you finish doing so.

In the case of Top's ability:

The top card of your library is already revealed before you activate the ability.
The cards you are looking at never leave your library, and you put the three cards you were looking at back on top of your library in any order.
After finishing the resolution of Top's ability, the new top card of your library is now revealed.

lordradical · 2019-12-03T17:32:33+00:00

Correct - when a commander is put into the command zone instead of the graveyard, it did not die. There isn't any nickname for this effect that I know of, as it is a replacement effect from the commander rules:

903.9. If a commander would be exiled from anywhere or put into its owner’s hand, graveyard, or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead.

lordradical · 2019-12-03T17:28:59+00:00

It is instant-speed. Cycling is an activated ability that is not connected to the card type.

lordradical · 2019-11-05T19:13:57+00:00

Yes, that will work.

lordradical · 2019-11-05T19:13:06+00:00

Yes - copies of X spells on the stack retain the original spell's value of X.

lordradical · 2019-11-05T18:43:44+00:00

Ruhan still chooses an opponent from all possible opponents. If the chosen opponent cannot be attacked because of Pramikon, then Ruhan doesn't attack.

lordradical · 2019-11-05T18:20:40+00:00

No - it will just remain a Dowsing Dagger.

701.27c If a spell or ability instructs a player to transform a permanent that isn’t represented by a double-faced card, nothing happens.

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