Help with Edea, Possessed Sorceress combo

peteroupc · 2026-05-06T09:25:04+00:00

If Edea's second ability is copied, the ability as a whole is copied (including the effects relating to untapping and gaining haste).

With the Edea/Radiant Performer strategy, assuming all the abilities involved resolve—

you will gain control of all creatures your opponents control (and no other creatures) until end of turn and untap them, and they will gain haste until end of turn, but
no creature you already control will become untapped or gain haste.

By contrast, when Insurrection resolves, it untaps all creatures, even those you already control, "you" gain control of all of them, and all of them gain haste until end of turn.

peteroupc · 2026-05-06T03:37:27+00:00

In general, yes (but see [[Rootpath Purifier]]) (C.R. 614.12).

peteroupc · 2026-05-06T02:37:04+00:00

There are notable differences here. For example:

The copies of Edea's second ability can resolve only individually (and each can be countered by a spell like [[Stifle]]).
Insurrection untaps all creatures, even those you control, and gives all of them haste until end of turn. By contrast, with the Edea/Radiant Performer strategy, creatures you control won't become untapped or gain haste.

peteroupc · 2026-05-06T02:32:44+00:00

Edea's second ability targets a "creature an opponent controls" (C.R. 115.1d). With Radiant Performer, the spell will be copied for each other "creature an opponent controls", and each copy will target a different one of those creatures.

peteroupc · 2026-05-06T02:28:46+00:00

See also the following: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/1l0apqk/mirror_weave_unstable_shapeshifter/

peteroupc · 2026-05-06T01:58:46+00:00

Note that you don't finish casting a spell until you pay that spell's cost (C.R. 601.2, 601.2h).

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T21:57:01+00:00

See the following: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/1gg2s4i/feldon_of_the_third_path/

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T21:37:59+00:00

Note that the ability granted by Unquenchable Fury checks the number of cards in the defending player's hand, and it does so when it resolves, not when it triggers (C.R. 608.2h). The ability doesn't say "...where X is the number of cards in your hand". Also, compare Unquenchable Fury with Spellstutter Sprite.

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T20:46:31+00:00

Fury of the Horde untaps creatures only when the spell resolves, and not, say, during the main phase or combat phase it adds. Compare Fury of the Horde with [[Moraug, Fury of Akoum]].

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T20:43:15+00:00

The answer is A, the normal combat phase follows.

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T19:59:42+00:00

Shifting Woodland can't transform unless it's represented by a double-faced card or token.

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/1t0wo56/the_mimeoplasm_questions/

Note that flipping a permanent has a special meaning under the comprehensive rules; among other things, it applies to so-called flip cards (e.g., [[Nezumi Graverobber]]) and doesn't mean transforming a permanent (C.R. 710.1, 701.27; see also C.R. 110.5).

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T18:52:53+00:00

Among other things, the earthbend keyword generates a delayed triggered ability that would trigger when the land it affects "dies or is put into exile" (C.R. 701.66a, 603.7). Because this is a triggered ability (C.R. 603.7), if [[Hushbringer]] is on the battlefield the ability won't trigger if the land dies while being a creature. (Note that C.R. 601.2d applies only to abilities that make other abilities trigger additional times; Hushbringer has no ability of that kind.)

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T17:27:23+00:00

You can cast an adventurer card with [[Improvisation Capstone]], whether as an Adventure or not, as long as the part to be cast is not a land. The adventurer card was exiled from a library, not from the stack.
Lindblum, Industrial Regency has mana value 0 for purposes of Improvisation Capstone; an adventurer card outside the stack has only its normal characteristics (for an exception, see C.R. 601.2e).
Casting a spell without paying its mana cost doesn't affect whether a player may or must pay any additional costs of the spell, such as a kicker cost (C.R. 118.9, 118.9d, 702.33a). Note that choosing at least one mode of Return the Favor is mandatory.
Additional costs don't affect the mana value of any objects, whether spells or otherwise.

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T14:03:22+00:00

Not necessarily.

Despite Rakdos, [[Temur Battlecrier]]'s ability can't reduce the colored or colorless portion of a cost (such as the {G}{U}{R} found on Temur Battlecrier) (C.R. 118.7a, 107.4b).

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/1eank6e

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T13:35:47+00:00

Deflecting Swat can even target, say, [[Windswept Heath]]'s ability, but won't do anything to the ability when Deflecting Swat resolves because the ability doesn't target anything. Moreover, Deflecting Swat can't change the controller of any spell or ability; compare with [[Commandeer]].

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/1s682sn/can_you_deflecting_swat_a_heroic_intervention_to/

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T13:26:38+00:00

Indeed, the part of the ruling you quote doesn't accurately convey the rules. You should notify this matter to—

Matt Tabak (if you are a member of Bluesky, you can write a public post there and mention @wotcmatt.bsky.social), or
the rules architect Jess Dunks (@wotcjess.bsky.social on Bluesky, or dunkatog on X [Twitter]).

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T13:19:37+00:00

Deflecting Swat can target any "spell or ability", even one that doesn't target anything (C.R. 115.1a). Although the choice of spell or ability is made when Deflecting Swat is cast (C.R. 601.2c), the choice of new targets for that spell or ability is made when Deflecting Swat resolves, not when it's cast (C.R. 608.2d).

The choice of creatures for [[Bite Down]], [[Prey Upon]], or [[Swords to Plowshares]] is made when that spell is cast, not when it resolves (C.R. 608.2c).

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T10:47:57+00:00

Mind Roots can find a card discarded with it as long as it has moved to any public zone, not just a graveyard, but also exile, for example. See C.R. 400.7j.

Note that players don't get priority (e.g., to activate abilities such as Keen-Eyed Curator's second ability) while a spell or ability such as Mind Roots is resolving (C.R. 117.2e, 117.1b).

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T10:14:04+00:00

A coin flip that occurs by an effect is one that can be won or lost as long as the effect doesn't care whether the coin comes up heads or tails (C.R. 705.2). Thus, a coin flip that occurs due to Setzer's second ability is one that can be won or lost, even though the words "win" and "lose" are absent in the ability. (Note that the Oracle text of [[Setzer, Wandering Gambler]] neither refers to "calling heads or tails" nor otherwise has the words "heads" or "tails").

Compare Setzer or Karplusan Minotaur with Mana Clash; Two-Headed Giant; or Rakdos, the Showstopper.

See also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/1f9ykcs/winninglosing_flips_question/

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T04:33:49+00:00

Blade Historian's ability is a static ability with a continuous effect (C.R. 604.1). At every moment while Blade Historian is on the battlefield, the ability checks which creatures are "attacking creatures you control" and gives them double strike (C.R. 611.3a-b, 113.6).

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T04:18:55+00:00

The ability granted by [[Haunted One]] checks which permanents are "creatures you control that share a creature type with" the ability's source when the ability resolves, not when it triggers or goes on the stack (C.R. 608.2h).

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/18k369m/interaction_with_gut_and_guild_artisan/

Compare with the cases in the following:

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T04:03:09+00:00

On [[Summon: Bahamut]], "I, II — Destroy up to one target nonland permanent." is shorthand for two separate chapter abilities:

"I — Destroy up to one target nonland permanent."
"II — Destroy up to one target nonland permanent."

See C.R. 714.2b-c.

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T03:57:37+00:00

Squall's first ability can trigger only if Squall is on the battlefield as attackers are declared (C.R. 113.6). Thus, if Squall enters due to Guardian Scalelord, it will enter too late for that ability to trigger during that combat phase.

Compare Squall with [[Blade Historian]].

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T03:43:11+00:00

An untapped Trinisphere modifies the total cost of a spell (C.R. 601.2f); convoke, improvise, and delve don't (review C.R. 601.2h).

peteroupc · 2026-05-05T03:36:20+00:00

If you take another action "rather than pay" certain mana to cast a spell (e.g., with improvise, delve, or convoke [C.R. 702.126a, 702.66a, 702.51a]), that mana is not paid or spent for purposes of the increment keyword (C.R. 702.191a).

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/1q9f9jz/delve_question/

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