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Judge Bill's Magic The Gathering Rulings
Title: Frantic Madness
Questions: 16 2.21.05
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>>>Q: I play a
Frantic Search. 1 of the 2 cards I draw is Arrogant
wurm. Can I discard the Wurm and then play it for
it's madness cost after untap my lands?
-Code
A: Yes. The
madness won't go on the stack until Frantic Search
completely resolves, including the untapping of the
lands.<<<
Q: Could you
please expand on the micro-steps and stack
interaction here? It seems that I would discard the
Arrogant Wurm before being able to untap the lands
to pay for the Madness...
Maybe I'm just
misunderstanding the Madness mechanic and the timing
between it going on the stack vs. paying for it's
cost.
-Adrian
A: This one's a
lot simpler than you think.
The madness
trigger has to wait for the whole spell to resolve
before you can deal with the madness trigger. So the
draw, discard, and untap all happen before the
madness is dealt with, as it is all one spell.
(This is related
to
Mantra 1.)
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Q: I have a White
Knight in play with Sword of Kaldra equipped, being
declared as an attacker.
My opponent
assigns his blocker, a White Knight with Prismatic
Ward on him (chosen color white).
A: (Side note
here folks ... if you have a question about a card,
make sure to look up the Oracle text on
Gatherer first. Looking at the actual card text
on older cards is frequently confusing.)
Prismatic Ward
1W Enchant Creature As Prismatic Ward comes into play, choose a color. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by sources of the chosen color. Sword of Kaldra 4 Legendary Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature gets +5/+5. Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a creature, remove that creature from the game. Equip 4
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Q: Assumption: I
think the damage is dealt, activating Sword of
Kaldra’s remove creature from game ability, then
reduced to zero (because it is all white damage) by
Prismatic Ward, stopping lethal damage (pointlessly
in this instance.)
A: Again, looking
at the actual Oracle text will prove this assumption
wrong here. Prevented damage is never dealt, and
anything that triggers off damage will not trigger
if the damage is prevented. Your opponent's White
Knight will not be removed from the game.
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Q: Is the damage
all white because it is the White Knight’s 2/2,
+5/+5 (not artifact damage from Sword of Kaldra)?
A: Correct.
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Q: If the
assigned blocker had protection from artifacts
instead of Prismatic Ward, the “remove creature from
game” ability would have no affect, but the extra 5
damage would. Is that right?
-Marcus
A: Wait ... what
now? Prevention only applies to damage and targeting
(in this case). Does Sword of Kaldra read target?
See
Mantra 3.
Since the Sword
of Kaldra doesn't do anything that
Mantra 4 tells us protection prevents, the
protection from artifacts won't do anything.
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Q: Could I use
cunning bandit (or rather its flipside) to steal a
creature at the end of their turn, after the end of
turn step so that it starts on my side at the start
of my turn, and therefore I can attack with it? Why
does this work?
A: No, this does
not work. I've covered "at" vs. "until" end of turn
effects in many past columns,
including
these
columns.
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Q: Can I use
Stifle to counter the fading trigger (from Parallax
Wave for example), so I don't need to remove a fade
counter that turn and my permanent with fading
survives for one extra turn?
A: Yes. The
upkeep trigger from fading reads: "At the beginning
of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from this
permanent. If you can’t, sacrifice the permanent."
Since it starts
with "at," it is a triggered ability, and can be
countered by Stifle.
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Q: Can I use
Stifle to counter the "leaves play" trigger from
Parallax Wave, so the creatures stay removed from
the game forever?
-Freddy
A: Yes, as the
"return to play ability" starts with "when," which
also indicates a triggered ability.
Parallax Wave
2WW Enchantment Fading 5 (This enchantment comes into play with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can’t, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Remove target creature from the game if Parallax Wave is in play. When Parallax Wave leaves play, each player returns to play all cards other than Parallax Wave he or she owns removed from the game with Parallax Wave.
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Q: What happens
when Eradicate removes a face down morph creature?
A: Not much, as
face down creatures have no name. Thus you won't be
able to remove any cards.
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Q: What happens
if Eradicate is used to remove my face-up morph
creature and I have another copy of that creature on
the field face down.
A: Nothing. The
"remove extra copies" part of Eradicate doesn't
touch the in play zone.
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Q: Now how does
Eradicate interact with Clone?
-Mike
A: Clone takes
the name of the thing it copies. So, for example, if
Clone copied an Exalted Angel, and you Eradicated
that, you would search for cards named "Exalted
Angel" in their hand, library, and graveyard.
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Q: I Blackmail my
opponent and he plays Gilded Light, does he discard
a card from his hand?
A: No. Your
opponent is an illegal target when Blackmail
resolves, so Blackmail will be countered.
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Q: when you
activate an ability and it has a comma in it, can
your opponent respond by playing a spell? Is that
considered a pause or just correct grammar?
A: A comma
separates parts of a spell, but it is still one
whole spell. You can't respond in the middle.
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Q: For example,
you activate Sensei's Top by drawing a card, then
look at the top 3 before the top goes on top of your
library.
-Omar S.
A: You can do
this, because they are two separate abilities.
(You can even put
the Top on top, then rearranged the top 3 including
the top, by activating the two abilities in the
other order.)
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Q: Can a Genju
attack, or is it always paralyzed by summoning
sickness? Same goes for Mishra's Factory...
A: Things like
this just make me wonder if anyone actually reads
my columns, or
the Mantras. I just dealt with this two weeks
ago.
It's not like
this was answered a year ago.
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Q: Dawn's
Reflection ("Whenever enchanted land is tapped for
mana, its controller adds two mana of any
combination of colored mana to his or her mana
pool."): Does this card add only those two mana of
any color, or does it add the two, plus the original
mana that land was originally tapped for, resulting
in three mana in your pool.
-Ryan
A: Ok, so
I answered this one 6 months ago. You're
forgiven on this one. (Question 10 in that column.)
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I'll end with a
little hint on how you can "search my archives",
similar to other judge columns:
Go to
Google.
In the search
box, type the card or mechanic, you are wondering
about, followed by "Judge Bill site:www.pojo.com".
Then hit search, and it will bring up the results
from my column on pojo.com.
So for example,
if you wanted to look at the questions about
summoning sickness, you would type "summoning
sickness Judge Bill site:www.pojo.com" in the search
box, and you would get the
following result.
See you Tuesday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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