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Judge Bill's Magic The Gathering Rulings
Title: Opponent
Questions: 20
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Q: Megrim:
"Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals
2 damage to that player."
Ahem, "[A]n opponent"... Some play as if this means if EITHER player discards they take 2, and some play as if this means the opponent of Megrim's controller. That is, the controller of the enchantment is not his own opponent.
-Phred
A: The latter
situation is correct.
200.3. A
player is one of the two people in the game. A
player’s opponent is the other player. The
active player is the player whose turn it
is. The other player is the nonactive player.
(In a multiplayer
game, an opponent is anyone who is not you, or a
member of your team for team games.)
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Q: Sylvan Library
is in play on my side. The first action during my
draw step is the normal draw (1 card). Then the
triggered ability of Sylvan Library is put on the
stack. When it resolves I get to draw 2 cards. So I
got 3 cards until this moment. Then I choose 2 of
the 3 previously drawn cards and put them on the top
of my library if I don't pay 4 life for each of
those 2 cards.
Is this the
correct procedure?
-Matthias
A: Yes.
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Q: I play a
Ember-Fist Zubera triggering my Earthshaker. The
Earthshaker triggers when the Zubera is on the stack
and thus the trigger resolves first doing it's
damage before the Zubera enters play, correct?
-Mike
A: Correct.
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Q: I am at 3 and
my opponent is at 1. I have a Kokusho in play and he
has a Frogmite with a Bonesplitter and Myr Enforcer
with a Cranial Plating. He attacks with both
creatures and I block the Enforcer. Who wins?
-Omar S.
A: Your opponent
does. After damage is dealt, you are at -1. State
based effects are then checked, and you lose the
game. Kokusho's triggered ability doesn't even go on
the stack, much less resolve and give you life to
live.
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Q: what will
happen if I'll get to flip a coin with two Krark's
Thumbs under my control? (via Mirror Gallery from
BoK)?
-Amplitur
A: You will flip
4 coins, and choose one. The first Thumb will
replace one coin flip with 2, and the other will
replace each of those coin flips with 2. So you will
flip a total of 4 coins.
(Think that's too
many coins? Then you don't want 4 Thumbs and 4
Sculpting Steel copying a thumb out. You'd have to
go to the bank to get enough coins :).)
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Q: I was playing
at a casual tournament and my opponent had a
Shrapnel Blast on an Isochron Scepter. He sacked the
Scepter for the first Shrapnel and Forked it. Does
he have to sacrifice an artifact for the Fork?
-Joann
A: No. You don't
have to pay (and can't, even if you wanted to) any
costs for a copy of a spell by Fork.
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Q: I have three
black creatures in play, and a Delraich in hand.
If my opponent kills one of my creatures with, lets
say, Shock, can I sacrifice it in response to pay
for Delraich? I know Delraich can't be cast in
response to an Instant, but if my opponent were to
destroy a land of mine, I could tap it for mana
before it went out, and I figure maybe the
alternative cost works the same. If not, what if
Shock is cast in response to the casting of
Delraich? Does the big guy fizzle, or is it too
late for Shock?
-David
A: You can't cast
Delraich this way. The alternate cost doesn't let
you cast him at a time when you couldn't normally.
So since you couldn't pay the mana cost and play
Delraich in response to the Shock, you can't cast
him via sacrificing creatures either.
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Q: Recently I
played a game with a white/blue soldier morph deck.
My friend was playing an old blue control. I played
a morph creature face down, he then played a Clone
on his next turn targeting the morph creature. Would
I have to tell him what the morph was, so that the
Clone could copy it?
A: No. When Clone
copies a morph, Clone will be a 2/2 colorless
creature without a creature type, and a mana cost of
0. It won't have the ability to change into what
your morph is.
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Q: If I have a
Frontline Strategist face down, and someone played a
spell or ability dealing it 2 damage, would it flip
up and its ability resolve?
A: No. Morphs
that leave play are turned face up to show they were
morphs before they leave play. This is not playing
the morph ability, and so any morph triggered
abilities will not trigger.
You have to
specifically pay the morph cost and flip the
creature face up to trigger the morph triggered
ability.
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Q: I play an
Endless Whispers, and then drop the Leveler and have
to remove my library from game. I have an Atog in
play and sac the Leveler as soon as it comes into
play, and then the Leveler moves to my opponent's
side, will he have to remove his library also and I
can say I'm done and he gets decked?
A: Yes.
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Q: I'm wondering
because cards like Spirit Link say "you" gain the
life, and when played on an opponents card still
gains "you" the life. I had always thought "you" was
referring to the person controlling the card, or
would Spirit Link actually still be in my control,
just enchanting their creature?
A: You still
control the Spirit Link card. So if it's on an
opponent's creature, you will gain life equal to the
damage that creature deals.
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Q: I play
Mindslaver and control my opponent's turn. He has a
lot of artifacts and one artifact creature that says
"Sacrifice an artifact: this creature gains flying."
Can I sac all of his artifacts to that one creature?
obviously giving him flying 12 times is useless, but
it doesn't say you can't sac more.
A: That is a
legal (and smart) play.
---
Q: I play a Day
of the Dragons, turning 5 1/1s into 5 5/5 dragons.
my opponent plays a Disenchant targeting the Day of
the Dragons. In response, can I play Shade's Breath,
change the dragons into pumpable shades, and since
they are now shades, not have to sacrifice them when
Day of the Dragons dies?
A: That works
too.
---
Q: Do tokens go
to the graveyard or not?
A: Yes. Tokens go
to the graveyard, and then are immediately removed
from the game as a state-based effect. (216.3)
---
Q: So I could sac
(artifact) tokens to an Atog and trigger the
Disciple of the Vault or Sadistic Glee?
A: Yes.
---
Q: Also I was
always under the impression that destroy and bury
effects could not be regenerated. but recently I
played Magic Online, played Dark Banishing targeting
a Drudge Skeleton, and he regenerated. Has the rules
changed?
A: Umm.... I've
got to call your bluff here. You can't target Drudge
Skeleton with Dark Banishing, as Dark Banishing
can't target black creatures.
(Dark Banishing
2B Instant Destroy target nonblack creature. It can’t be regenerated.)
Maybe he played
Rend Flesh?
(Rend Flesh
2B Instant — Arcane Destroy target non-Spirit creature.)
Now, let me make
up the situation ..
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Q: I have a
Silvos in play. My opponent Dark Banishes it. Can I
regenerate Silvos?
A: No. Read Dark
Banishing.
---
Q: Same
situation, only my opponent casts Rend Flesh on
Silvos. Can I regenerate it then?
A: Sure.
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Q: Why can I in
one situation and not another?
You can
regenerate from any destroy effect, whether it is by
lethal damage or an effect like Rend Flesh, unless
the card says you can't regenerate.
(Old cards that
say "Bury target creature" now have all been
errataed to say "Destroy target creature. It can't
be regenerated."
Bury was an old
term that said the creature was destroyed and
couldn't be regenerated. They wanted to simplify
things a bit, so they just changed the wording to
destroy, and tagged on the "no regeneration" text.
[And no, I STILL
don't like this change. Never will.])
---
Q: Is there
somewhere I can go and print magic rules that are up
to date, accurate, and written in a way that a
normal person could understand?
-Jimmy
A: A basic
rulebook for Magic can be found at
http://wwwwizards.com/magic/rules/en_8e_rulebook.pdf.
This is all you will need for 95+% of all
situations.
The complete
Magic Rulebook (what we call the “Comprehensive
Rulebook”) can be downloaded by going to
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/rules/tourneyplayer.
It has some confusing language, but covers the
complicated scenarios well.
See you Friday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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