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Title: Toshiro's Will
Questions: 9 1.16.05
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Once again, regarding
Betrayers card questions prior to the prerelease:
you MUST provide me with the card text. No
exceptions, not even if an official preview
has been done on magicthegathering.com. If you do
not supply the card text, I WILL NOT answer (or even
acknowledge) your question.
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Q: My question was one a
friend had posed, and it was just a curiosity for
me, involving a very weird situation. The board
looks like this:
Me in play: Toshiro
Umezawa
(Toshiro Umezawa
1BB Legendary Creature - Human Samurai 2/2 Bushido 1 Whenever a creature an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from play, you may play target instant card in your graveyard. If that card would be put into a graveyard this turn, remove it from the game instead.)
Me in graveyard:
Counterspell
Opponent in play:
Composite Golem
The way I see it is
there are two possibilities:
Option 1) My opponent
sacrifices the Golem for 5 mana, allowing me to play
a spell from my graveyard. I can't play
Counterspell as there are no spells on the stack, so
I let Toshiro's ability resolve and play nothing.
My opponent then announces Dromar's Attendant and I
have no response.
A: This is a valid
option, and the best option for your opponent.
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Q: Option 2) My opponent
announces Dromar's Attendant and sacrifices the
Golem to pay the mana cost. This puts Toshiro's
ability on the stack, it resolves and I play the
Counterspell, targeting the Attendant, which is not
on the stack.
A: The mechanics behind
this option are not correct. This option would
happen as follows:
1) Opponent announces
Attendant.
2) During his announcing of Attendant, he sacrifices the Golem. Toshiro's ability triggers, but can't go on the stack until your opponent is finished announcing his spell. 3) Opponent finishes announcing the Attendant, and it is put on the stack. 4) Toshiro's ability is put on top of the Attendant. As part of playing Toshiro's ability, you target the Counterspell in your graveyard.
(Assuming no one does
anything ..)
5) Toshiro's ability
resolves. You may now play the Counterspell,
targeting the Attendant.
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Q: What about a
different option, as in my opponent playing a
Devouring Greed, and sacrificing all of his
creatures to pay for it. The Devouring Greed goes
on the stack, he pays for the spell, which causes
Toshiro's ability to stack, allowing me to play a
counterspell targeting the Devouring Greed. Is this
correct?
-Evn
A: Yes. Just Follow the
mechanics behind option 2 above, as they apply to
the Greed situation too.
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Q: If I try to Magma Jet
a creature, and that creature leaves play before the
Magma Jet resolves, is my Magma Jet considered
countered?
A: Yes. The Jet's target
is no longer legal (because it isn't there any
more), so it is countered on resolution.
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Q: If I play Viridian
Shaman targeting an artifact, ..
A: *nitpick* The Shaman
spell itself doesn't have a target. Only when it
comes into play, and its ability triggers, does it
need a target. So you can play the Viridian Shaman
spell even if there are no artifacts in play.
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Q: ... and that artifact
leaves play before the Shaman ability resolves, is
that ability considered countered, or do I have to
choose another target?
A: It is countered. Once
a target is chosen, you can't change it (unless you
play something like Willbender's ability).
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Q: If I play Viridian
Shaman, targeting a Pyrite Spellbomb, can the player
with the Spellbomb use the Spellbomb in response to
kill the Shaman?
-Code
A: Yes. Whenever
something goes on the stack, both players have a
chance to respond before it resolves.
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Q: I am playing a 3
person free-for-all game with my friends Jake and
Sam. The turn order is Sam, me, then Jake. It is
Sam's turn and he attacks Jake with a 2/2 creature.
Jake blocks with a 1/1 creature that has bushido 2.
Sam is a newbie and forgets about bushido. So Sam
attacks and Jake blocks with his now 3/3 bushidoed
up creature. Now, it's my turn and I choose to
attack Jake with a 4/4 creature. Here is where the
trouble starts: according to the rule of the
bushido, "if this creature blocks or becomes
blocked, it gains 2/2 until the end of the turn."
since during Sam's turn, it became 3/3, and the turn
still did not end, ...
-Tommy
A: Huh? You can only
attack during your turn. So when Sam attacked, it
was his turn. Now that it is your turn, the
creature's bushido bonus is gone, since it's no
longer Sam's turn.
(Should Sam play
Relentless Assault, and attack Jake with a different
creature, Jake could block with his creature, and it
will again get the bushido bonus, making it a 5/5.
Remember, though, that the now 5/5 already has 2
points of damage on it from the first attack.)
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Q: Scenario: I have
Oracle en-Vec in play and target an opponent who has
a bunch of creatures in play. I also have
Peacekeeper in play. On my opponents turn, will all
his creatures be destroyed, since none of them can
attack?
-Nicholas
A: Um, there's one flaw
in your plan. Your opponent chooses which creatures
are affected by the Oracle. He can simply choose for
no creatures to attack. Then, none of them will be
destroyed.
(If for some reason he
did choose a creature to attack under Oracle's
ability [perhaps you played the ability then played
the Peacekeeper], then it will be destroyed, since
it didn't attack.)
Oracle en-Vec
1W Creature — Wizard 1/1 T: Target opponent chooses any number of creatures he or she controls. During that player’s next turn, those creatures attack if able, and other creatures can’t attack. At the end of that turn, destroy each of those creatures that didn’t attack. Play this ability only during your turn.
See you Tuesday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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