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9.03.04
Title: Dark Questions
Questions: 9
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Q: The card "Blanket of
Night" turns all lands into Swamps, in addition to
their first land type. Does this also give all lands
the ability to produce black mana?
-Sasha L.
A: Blanket of Night
{1}{B}{B} Enchantment Each land is a Swamp in addition to its land type.
Since each land has the
Swamp land type, that means they can tap for black
mana. A land with the Swamp land type, by
definition, taps to produce black mana.
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Q: Does Mox Diamond make
you discard a land when it comes into play, or when
you play it?
A: As the Oracle wording
reads, Mox Diamond makes you discard a land as an
additional cost to play it.
Mox Diamond
{0} Artifact As an additional cost to play Mox Diamond, discard a land card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
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Q: Is it possible to use
the Mox Diamond as a Lotus Petal?
-Jonas
A: No. Since you have to
discard a land when you play it, it is not possible
to play Mox Diamond in that way.
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Q: I equip a creature
with Cranial Plating. Then during combat some
ability or spell causes one of my other artifacts to
be destroyed. When does this affect the power of the
equipped creature? Does it depend on the timing of
the destruction of the artifact?
A: The ability of
Cranial Plating (and other cards with a similar
ability) is a continuous ability. Thus, if an
artifact is destroyed, the creature equipped with
Cranial Plating has its power immediately reduced by
1.
(If the artifact is
destroyed after combat damage is put on the stack,
it will still lose the 1 power immediately; but,
since damage is already on the stack, it will do the
amount of damage that was originally assigned.)
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Q: What about with
Hunger of the Nim? Does that work the same way?
-Christopher L.
A: Hunger of the Nim is
a sorcery, as opposed to Cranial Plating, which has
a continuous ability. Since it is a sorcery, the
power bonus that Hunger of the Nim gives will only
be determined once, and that is when Hunger of the
Nim resolves. If you change the number of artifacts
you control after that, the bonus won't be changed.
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Q: My opponent plays 2
Shocks targeting my untapped Pristine Angel. After
referring him your column with DEBT footnote, he
then proceeds to untap his lands and return the
Shocks to his hand. Is this legal? Would they go to
the graveyard due to lack of legal target?
-Chris
A: They would go back to
his hand. Since he didn't choose a legal target
(since you can't target the Angel), the spell is
never played, and thus, you go back to the time
right before the spell is played. At that time, the
Shock is still in his hand.
(If this happened in a
tournament, I would either give a caution or a
warning, along with a stern reminder not to do that
again.)
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Q: Can you counter
cycling using a Counterspell?
-Ray N.
A: No. Cycling is not a
spell, it is an ability. It would take a card like
Stifle to counter the cycling ability.
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Q: If I declare an
attacker, and there are no blockers to respond with,
can my opponent tap certain artifact cards in order
to possibly change the result (such as destroying my
creature)?
Basically, can cards be tapped for their abilities after I declare attackers?
-Ryan K.
A: Yes to both. After
blockers are declared (declaring 0 blockers is still
declaring blockers), both players receive priority
to play spells and abilities.
He could also play the
same ability after you declare attackers, but before
he would declare blockers.
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Q: I was wondering if
you could tell me the tournament rules.
-B. Hamelin
A: The tournament rules
can be found at
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/tournamentcenter.
The pertinent links can be found in the "Resources
for Tournament Players, Organizers, and Judges"
section. You will want to download the Comprehensive
Rules and Oracle Card Reference. You will also need
the Universal Tournament Rules, which can be found
at
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dci/utr/intro.
See you Tuesday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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