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12.09.04
Title: Vision Charm
Questions: 9
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Q: I have a question
about Vision Charm's "all lands of one type are
basic lands of your choice until end of turn," and
"target artifact phases out."
A: I have a feeling an updated wording might be key to answering this question, so let me put it in here before I continue...
Vision Charm
U Instant Choose one — Target artifact phases out; or target player puts the top four cards from his or her library into his or her graveyard; or all lands of one type become the basic land type of your choice until end of turn.
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Q: What does one type
mean? I know dual lands are not considered a "type"
of land, but are nonbasic lands a type of land?
Instead of just Mountain to Swamp for instance, can
I change all basic lands to the lands of my choice?
A: Land types are the words after the dash in the type line. Go look at a Forest from 8th, Mirrodin, or Champions. The type line on that card will read:
"Basic Land - Forest"
Now go get a Cloudpost
from Mirrodin. Its type line reads:
"Land - Locus"
One final example. Go
get a Cloudcrest Lake, from Champions. Its type line
reads:
"Land"
So what are the land
types of the above 3 cards? In order:
Forest has land type
"Forest."
Cloudpost has type "Locus." And since there is no dash on the Cloudcrest Lake's type line, Cloudcrest Lake has no land type.
(A complete list of land
types, along with the cards they are on, is as
follows:
Desert (Desert)
Forest (Forest, Bayou, Savannah, Taiga, Tropical Island) Island (Island, Tropical Island, Tundra, Underground Sea, Volcanic Island) Lair (The 5 tri-lands from Planeshift) Locus (Cloudpost) Mine (Urza's Mine) Mountain (Mountain, Badlands, Plateau, Taiga, Volcanic Island) Plains (Plains, Plateau, Savannah, Scrubland, Tundra) Power-Plant (Urza's Power Plant) Swamp (Swamp, Badlands, Bayou, Scrubland, Underground Sea,) Tower (Urza's Tower) Urza's (Urza's Mine, Power Plant, and Tower))
Non-basic is not a land
type. (It indicates the lack of the supertype
basic.)
Artifact is not a land type. (It is its own type of card.)
So, for the final
ability on Vision Charm (all lands of one type
become the basic land type of your choice until end
of turn), you choose one type from the above list,
and then choose a basic land type (of which there
are 5 - Forest, Island, Plains, Mountain, and
Swamp). Any card that is in play with the first
chosen land type becomes the second chosen type.
This means they lose all abilities, and gain the
ability to tap for the given type of mana that the
second chosen type produces.
The lands that are
affected do not gain the supertype basic. So unless
they had the supertype basic before (which means
they were a Forest, Island, Plains, Mountain, or
Swamp to start with), they are still non-basic.
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Q: If I cast Vision
Charm at the end of my opponent's end of turn phase
under a Back to Basics lock, will I be able to
change all my nonbasic lands to basic lands, in
order to untap for my turn?
A: No, for 2 reasons:
1) The lands that are
affected do not gain the supertype basic.
2) The effect lasts "UNTIL end of turn." This means no matter when you cast Vision Charm, its effect will wear off before you untap.
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Q: This may also be
applicable for Wastelands, and Price of Progress.
A: The trick does not
work here either, due to reason #1 above.
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Q: When an opponent tries to imprint an artifact, can I phase it out in response? If so, is he able to imprint anything on it when it phases back in?
A: You can phase it out,
but he can still imprint on it after it is phased
out. (The artifact doesn't have to be in play for
imprint to work). When the artifact phases in, it
will continue to remember what card is imprinted on
it. (You are unable to imprint another card, because
phasing in doesn’t trigger comes into play
abilities.)
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Q: Can I cast this at
the end of my opponent's turn under a Smokestack or
Tangle Wire lock to skip its effects for my turn?
-William
A: Yes.
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Q: If I have one face up
Samurai of the Pale Curtain and my opponent discards
a card can he respond and activate the maddening
cost of a card/instant he activates is the only card
in his hand? Basically I am asking if he discards
can he activate abilities even though they are being
removed form the game and not hitting the grave?
-Paddy
A: Um, read Samurai of
the Pale Curtain again ...
Samurai of the Pale
Curtain
WW Creature — Fox Samurai 2/2 Bushido 1 (When this blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) If a permanent would be put into a graveyard, remove it from the game instead.
Permanents are cards
that are in the in play zone. Samurai of the Pale
Curtain, therefore, doesn't look at cards that are
being discarded from your hand.
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Q: If you imprint an
instant with X in the casting cost onto Isochron
Scepter then when you copy the spell can you pay
into the X?
-JD
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Q: Can you elaborate in
the rules for “in play” statement? We play a lot
with tokens and some cards states “put in play X
tokens”. We don’t know if those tokens or creatures
(some coming from the graveyard) are affected by
summoning sickness. Thanks for any help.
-Marco P.
A: Creatures that come
into play via any means are affected by summoning
sickness. It doesn't matter what they are, or how
they got there - they will have summoning sickness
until the next time you untap.
See you Friday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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