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• 04.22.05  Equipping Horobi? - 20 Questions & Answers

• 04.06.05  Rant Mode ON! - 20 Questions & Answers

• 03.21.05  Enchanting Issues - 17 Questions Answered

• 03.10.05  Playing Dead Creatures - 10 Questions & Answers

• 03.03.05  Negative Half - 12 Questions & Answers
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• 02.23.05  New Search Function! - 20 Questions & Answers

• 02.21.05  Frantic Madness - 16 Questions & Answers

• 02.15.05  Divinity? - 14 Questions & Answers

• 02.11.05  Before and After - 14 Questions & Answers

• 02.08.05  More Genju Fun - 9 Questions & Answers

• 02.04.05  Mantra Action - 9 Questions & Answers

• 02.02.05  Opponent - 20 Questions & Answers
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• 01.28.05  Copying a copy wrong .. - 19 Questions Answered

• 01.25.05  Opponents Choosing Targets - 6 Questions and Answers

• 01.21.05  New Betrayers FAQ - 9 Questions Answered

• 01.19.05  Inside the Betrayers Prerelease 

• 01.18.05  Hesitating Mongeese - 6 Questions Answered

• 01.16.05  Toshiro's Will - 9 Questions Answered

• 01.11.05  Copying Splice - 5 Questions answered

• 01.07.05  Extra Skipped Turns! - 6 Questions and Answers

• 01.04.05  Band This! - 13 Questions Answered
  
  2004
   

• 12.31.04  Last Questions of 2004 - 5 Questions and Answers

• 12.28.04  Preventing Blocking - 12 Questions and Answers

• 12.20.04  Replacing Life - 5 Questions & Answers

• 12.17.04  Static Cling - 5 Questions & Answers

• 12.13.04  Sanctum Slaying - 6 Questions & Answers

• 12.09.04  Vision Charm - 9 Questions answered

• 12.04.04  Now Serving Error #8675309 - 4 Questions and Answers
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• 11.30.04  Horobi's Enchantments - 5 Questions Answered

• 11.27.04  Flipping Out - 13 Questions Answered

• 11.19.04  Coming Unhinged - 22 Questions Answered

• 11.16.04  Shields, Not Swords - 16 Questions Answered

• 11.09.04  Mis-Possession - 12 Questions Answered

• 11.05.04  Arcane Scepters - 14 Questions Answered

• 11.02.04  Vedalken Abilities - 4 Questions Answered
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• 10.29.04  Vanishing Cliffs - 6 Questions and Answers

• 10.26.04  Chanting Madness - 11 Questions and Answers

• 10.21.04  en-Kor! - 20 Questions and Answers

• 10.19.04  Land's Colors - 12 Questions Answered 

• 10.15.04  Master of the Floodgate - 11 Questions Answered 

• 10.12.04  Enchanting Idols - 5 Questions Answered 

• 10.08.04  More Splice Fun - 9 Questions Answered 

• 10.05.04  Animated Shackles - 7 Questions Answered 
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• 09.28.04  Mana and Lands - 6 Questions Answered 

• 09.24.04  Zuberas Galore - 8 Questions Answered 

• 09.21.04  Visiting the Mana Bank - 11 Questions Answered 

• 09.16.04  Champions Pre-Release - Important Info on the Pre-Release

• 09.14.04  Stopping Time - 15 Questions Answered

• 09.07.04  Blinking Nexus - 4 Questions Answered

• 09.03.04  Dark Questions - 9 Questions Answered

• 09.01.04  Re: Champions of Kamigawa - 7 Questions Answered
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• 08.27.04  Column 100000000 - 7 Questions

• 08.24.04  Mantra 12 - 17 Questions & Another KEY Mantra

• 08.20.04  Kingly Jewelry - 22 Questions answered

• 08.17.04  Questions, Questions, Questions - 9 Questions answered

• 08.10.04  Lotsa Mantra Questions - 25 Questions Answered

• 08.06.04  Subgames - 14 Questions Answered

• 08.04.04  Cards of the Week - 8 Questions Answered
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• 07.30.04  XX Fun - 9 Questions Answered

• 07.27.04  Anti-Magic Card Reading - 11 Questions Answered

• 07.23.04  Endless Ball Lightning - 7 Questions Answered

• 07.21.04  Rules of Banding - 17 Questions Answered

• 07.19.04  The Red Dawn - 13 Questions Answered

• 07.13.04  Multiple Creature Types - 10 Questions Answered

• 07.09.04  Missing Echo - 15 Questions Answered

• 07.06.04  Mantra 11 Revisited (Ghoul Error Corrected) - 10 Questions Answered
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• 06.29.04  Paying for Belching - 4 Questions Answered

• 06.25.04  Frozen Sticks - 6 Questions Answered

• 06.22.04  Endless Disciple - 5 Questions Answered

• 06.19.04  Multiple Grips - 8 Questions Answered

• 06.15.04  Missing Targets - 4 Questions Answered

• 06.11.04  Questions, Questions, Questions... - 9 Questions Answered

• 06.04.04  Banned Skullclamps  - 4 Questions Answered

• 06.01.04  New Oracle and Comprehensive Rules - 5 Questions Answered

• 05.25.04  A Humble Ultimus (Ghoul Error Corrected) - 15 Questions Answered
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• 05.21.04  How Do "Attach" and "Equip" Differ? - 11 Questions Answered

• 05.18.04  Hasty Sacrifice - 9 Questions Answered

• 05.14.04  Looping State Based Effects? - 9 Questions Answered

• 05.13.04  Mantra 11 - A New Mantra, 25 Questions Answered + Tourney Report

• 05.07.04  Destroying the Indestructible Question - 4 Questions Answered

• 05.04.04  No Double Duty - 17 Questions Answered
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• 04.30.04  Sword of the Mana Burn - 8 Questions Answered

• 04.27.04  Avoiding the Trap - 17 Questions Answered

• 04.23.04  Kicking The Vial - 13 Questions Answered

• 04.20.04  A New Mantra 10 - 10 Questions Answered

• 04.16.04  Affinity for Soul Foundry - 19 Questions Answered

• 04.13.04  Affinity for Questions - 9 Questions Answered

• 04.09.04  Refreshing Blankets - 10 Questions Answered

• 04.06.04  Sculpting Blinkmoths - 20 Questions Answered

• 04.02.04  Can I Assign Blockers Yet? - 10 Questions Answered
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• 03.30.04  Reclaiming Workers - 5 Questions Answered

• 03.26.04  A Shifty Error - 11 Questions Answered

• 03.23.04  More Questions - 5 Questions Answered + Tourney Report

• 03.19.04  More Modular - 11 Questions Answered

• 03.16.04  Dampening Morph - 19 Questions Answered

• 03.12.04  Taking A Flamebreak - 11 Questions Answered

• 03.09.04  Magical Cheeseburgers - 26 Questions Answered + Tourney Report

• 03.02.04  Humbled Counters - 11 Questions Answered + Tourney Report
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• 02.27.04  Dual Land Types - 13 Questions Answered + Tourney Report

• 02.24.04  Tokens' Names - 21 Questions Answered

• 02.20.04  Agonizing Corrupt - 6 Questions Answered

• 02.17.04  Transmuting Dragons - 21 Questions

• 02.13.04  Modular Treasure - 23 Questions

• 02.10.04  What Good Is Master Decoy? - 31 Questions

• 02.06.04  Equilibrium Revisited - 9 Questions

• 02.03.04  Ownership + Tourney Report - 26 Questions
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• 01.30.04  Blinkmoth Bonus - 13 Q&A's

• 01.26.04  Indestructible Toughness - 20 Q&A's

• 01.23.04  Milestones, Pre-Releases, & Answers - 6 Q&A's

• 01.20.04  Doppleganger Madness - 21 Q&A's

• 01.16.04  No Food For Shaman - 7 Q&A's

• 01.13.04  First Darksteel Question + Tourney Report - 9 Q&A's

• 01.09.04  Cycling Libraries - 10 Questions & Answers

• 01.06.04  6/6 Broodstar for 3 Mana? - 9 Questions & Answers

• 01.02.04  Stifled Abyss - 10 Questions & Answers
  
  2003
   

• 12.30.03  Voiding Tokens - 13 Questions Answered

• 12.26.03  Null Artifact Lands - 6 Questions Answered

• 12.23.03  Power Mask - 11 Q&A's!

• 12.19.03  Elementals Marching On - 8 Q&A's!

• 12.16.03  Dying Disciples - 5 Q&A's!

• 12.12.03  Pest Invasion - 10 Q&A's!

• 12.10.03  More Questions - 25 Q&A's!

• 12.08.03  Morphing Mask - 16 Questions & Answers

• 12.03.03  Waking Filters - 10 Questions & Answers
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• 11.28.03  Duplicanting Morphs - 12 Q&A's

• 11.25.03  How much Sparksmith Damage?

• 11.20.03  More Storm - 18 Q's & A's

• 11.17.03  Formats, Revisited - 18 Questions Answered 

• 11.14.03  B Movie Quote - 22 Questions answered

• 11.11.03  Preventing Damage - 28 Questions answered

• 11.10.03  Prevented Spirit - 24 Questions answered

• 11.03.03  Purging Answers - 7 Questions answered
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• 10.28.03  Slieghting Tangleroot - 19 Questions & Answers

• 10.24.03  Empty Staff - 14 Questions & Answers

• 10.21.03  Playing the Helix - 8 Questions & Answers

• 10.17.03  Mantra 10 - 15 Questions & Answers

• 10.14.03  Tapped Equipment - 15 Questions & Answers

• 10.10.03  Time Conduit - 18 Questions & Answers

• 10.07.03  Artifact Moon - 10 Answers

• 10.03.03  Control Issues - 7 Answers
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• 09.30.03  Dueling Unbounded Armies - 16 Answers

• 09.25.03  Warped Megrim - 15 Answers

• 09.22.03  Mirrodin Prerelease Rulings - 7 Answers

• 09.18.03  Double Strike - 11 Answers

• 09.15.03  More Questions - 3 Answers

• 09.12.03  Redirected Furnace - 9 Q's Answered

• 09.09.03  A Savage Throwback - 15 Q's Answered

• 09.04.03  Equipping the Mantras - 13 Q's Answered

• 09.01.03  Buyback the Runes - 8 Q's Answered
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• 08.28.03  Worshipping Oaths - 9 Q's Answered

• 08.25.03  Chanting Answers - 12 Q's Answered

• 08.21.03  The Urzatron - 14 Q's Answered

• 08.18.03  Words of Enchantress - 20 Q's Answered

• 08.14.03  Cryptic Gateway - 12 Q's Answered

• 08.11.03  First Mirrodin Question - 10 Q's Answered

• 08.07.03  Illogical Play - 13 Q's Answered

• 08.04.03  Portal "Instants?" - 13 Q's Answered

• 08.01.03  More Answers - 11 Q's Answered
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• 07.30.03  A Drought of Additional Costs - 13 Q's Answered

• 07.24.03  A Storm Brewing - 10 Q's Answered

• 07.21.03  Phage the Turncoat - 17 Q's Answered

• 07.17.03  The Hills Are Alive - 11 Q's Answered

• 07.14.03  More Questions... - 4 Q's Answered

• 07.11.03  Mantras Review: Mantras 3 and 4 - 3 Q's Answered

• 07.07.03  The Type Line - 11 Q's Answered

• 07.03.03  8th Edition Rules - 13 Questions Answered
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• 06.26.03  More Questions - 4 Q's Answered

• 06.23.03  More Random Questions - 5 Q's Answered

• 06.19.03  Illusionary Triggers - 9 Q's Answered

• 06.16.03  Bearer of Banding - 8 Q's Answered

• 06.13.03  Shifty Shyft - 14 Q's Answered

• 06.09.03  Randon Questions - 6 Questions Answered

• 06.05.03  Phage the Doggelganger - 11 Questions Answered

• 06.02.03  A Slipped Disk - 8 Questions Answered

• 05.28.03  Noxious Bidding - 6 Questions Answered

• 05.27.03  Cycling Tokens - 12 Questions Answered

• 05.22.03  A Stifling Storm - 10 Questions Answered

• 05.20.03  Whiteout - 3 Questions Answered

• 05.15.03  It Takes A Village - 13 Questions Answered

• 05.12.03  Face Down Fun - 9 Questions Answered

• 05.09.03  Sterling Enchantress - 12 Questions Answered

• 05.06.03  In A Bind - 19 Questions Answered

• 05.05.03  X Off The Stack - 15 Questions Answered

• 04.29.03  Combat Problems - 6 Questions Answered

• 04.24.03  The Slide Cycle - 5 Questions Answered

• 04.21.03  Worship Pains - 23 Questions Answered

• 04.17.03  Flaming Bunnies - 12 Questions Answered

• 04.14.03  Draw? - 7 Questions Answered

• 04.10.03  Frantic Madness - 12 Questions Answered

• 04.07.03  Erratic Splits - 7 Questions Answered

• 04.03.03  More Divvy Fun - 15 Questions Answered

• 03.31.03  More Answers - 7 Questions Answered

• 03.27.03  Comprehensive Vengeance - 11 Questions Answered

• 03.24.03  Humble Kobolds - 8 Questions Answered

• 03.21.03  Divvying 'em Up - 15 Questions Answered

• 03.17.03  Fun With Humility - 9 Questions Answered

• 03.13.03  Creature Lands - 20 Questions Answered

• 03.10.03  Steely Plague - 15 Questions Answered

• 03.06.03  Disenchanted With Regeneration - 14 Questions Answered

• 03.03.03  Two New Mantras - 9 Questions Answered

• 02.27.03  Wrath of Martha Stewart - 13 Questions Answered

• 02.24.03  Rotlung Havoc - 16 Questions Answered

• 02.21.03  Pump You Up - 11 Questions Answered

• 02.17.03  En-Kor, En-Kor!!! - 9 Questions Answered

• 02.13.03  Who Gets Jeska? - 10 Questions Answered

• 02.10.03  Suspicious Mistforms - 14 Questions Answered

• 02.06.03  An Opponent Chooses One - 13 Questions Answered

• 02.03.03  Choice on Announcement - 10 Questions Answered

• 01.30.03  100th Column - 13 Questions Answered

• 01.27.03  More on Mantra #3 - 13 Questions Answered

• 01.23.03  Wrath of Rotlungs - 10 Questions Answered

• 01.21.03  What Color Are Morphs? - 2 Questions Answered

• 01.17.03  Attacking Lands - 20 Questions Answered

• 01.14.03  Mantra #6 - 21 Questions Answered

• 01.09.03  Fun With Lifeline - 12 Questions Answered

• 01.06.03  Alter Your Angel? - 36 Questions Answered

• 01.02.03  Multiple Triggers - 13 Questions Answered

2002

• 12.30.02  Oath of Triggers - 22 Questions Answered

• 12.19.02  Game Markers - 15 Questions Answered

• 12.19.02  Future Sight - 2 Lectures, 2 Questions Answered

• 12.16.02  Trampling Basilisks - 8 Questions Answered

• 12.12.02  Holiday Madness - 12 Questions Answered

• 12.09.02  Flagbearers - 12 Questions Answered

• 12.05.02  Various Questions - 8 Questions Answered

• 12.02.02  How Do the Chains Work? - 12 Q's answered

• 11.30.02  Aluren & Morph - 16 Q's answered

• 11.21.02  Sleighting More Stuff - 9 Q's answered

• 11.18.02  Is Shifting Sky Sleightable?

• 11.14.02  A Hodgepodge of Questions  11 Q's answered

• 11.11.02  Here Kitty Kitty  20 Q's answered + Bonus Report

• 11.07.02  More on Morph  10 Q's answered.

• 11.04.02  A Divine Chorus

• 10.31.02  Humility and Opalescence, Revisited - 16 Q's answered.

• 10.28.02  T-A-R-G-E-T - 9 Q's answered 

• 10.24.02  Fastbond/Exploration - 14 Q's answered

• 10.21.02  Revised 409.1f - 24 Questions answered & Bonus Report

• 10.17.02  New Rulebook - 12 Questions answered

• 10.14.02  Samite Healer and Combat Damage - 10 Questions answered

• 10.11.02  Sufficient Randomization - 11 Questions answered

• 10.07.02  Is ON Shock Legal Now? - 24 Questions answered & Bonus Report

• 10.03.02  Life Tracking - 6 Questions answered

• 09.30.02  Charged Firebeasts - 17 Q's & Friday Night Magic Report

• 09.26.02  Mantras 4 & 5 - 12 Questions answered

• 09.23.02  Upkeep Effects - 22 Q's answered and Tournament Report 

• 09.18.02  Flashback vs. Memory Lapse - 12 Q's answered

• 09.16.02  Exhuming the Winds - 5 Q's answered 

• 09.09.02  MorphLink

• 09.05.02  Riftstone Portal and Discards  

• 09.02.02  Dealing Zero Damage

• 08.29.02  Future Questions

• 08.26.02  Mantra Review  

• 08.22.02  Floor Rule Changes  

• 08.19.02  Readers Have Trample  

• 08.15.02  Flagbearers  

• 08.12.02  Complicated Blocking

• 08.09.02  Trying to Kill Stuff  

• 08.05.02  Dragons and the Plague  

• 08.01.02  Braids, Legends, & The Oracle   

• 07.29.02  Complicated Stacks & Tourney Report - 24 Q's answered 

• 07.24.02  Hunting for Snakes 

• 07.19.02  At vs. Until

• 07.16.02  Eradicating an Animated Forest - 18 Q's answered & Bonus Report

• 07.12.02  Pariah'd Angels, Legends, and Nishobas, oh my! - 21 Q's answered

• 07.09.02  Mana Short Madness & More

• 07.04.02  Advocates & Kicker

• 07.01.01  Regeneration & Another Report

• 06.28.02  Triggered Abilities

• 06.26.02  More On Shade's Form & Bonus!!

• 06.21.02  Familiars & X Spells - 31 Questions Answered

• 06.17.02  Verdant Succession and Last Laugh - 15 Q's Answered

• 06.14.02  Targeting at Threshold - 31 Reader Q's Answered.

• 06.10.02  Elephant Guide, Creature, and Deed - 34 Reader Questions answered

• 06.07.02  Phantom Creatures - More than 20 Fan questions answered 

• 06.03.02  Power less than zero 

• 05.31.02  Mantra #3, Madness, and More

• 05.28.02  Magic, the ADA, and More  

• 05.20.02  Swarming a Blightcutter? 

• 05.13.02  Another Mantra

• 05.07.02  Where Can I Get The Rules?  

• 05.03.02  Circular Logic = Standstill?

• 04.29.02  First Strike

• 04.25.02  COPs, Spiritmonger, and You

• 04.22.02  Vesuvan Doppelganger - A Jack of All Trades

• 04.18.02  Fun With Reborn Hero

• 04.15.02  Now How EXACTLY does Madness Work? 

• 04.09.02  Flashback & Buyback 

• 04.04.02  Can vs. Can't 

• 03.29.02  More Rulings 

• 03.22.02  Cleaning Steamy Vines 

• 03.20.02  Stupid Creature Tricks 

• 03.15.02  Intervening "If" Clause rule and much more

• 03.13.02  Guest Clarifications

• 03.11.02  Laquatus's Champion Goes Farming

• 03.07.02  Iridescent Angel & More

• 03.04.02  Shade's Form, Elves & more 

• 02.27.02  Dawn of the Dead, Birds of Paradise & more 

• 02.22.02  Werebear/Pyroclasm Correction  

• 02.18.02  Countering a Counterspell with a Deflection

• 02.13.02  Legends and Unnatural Selection

• 02.11.02  It Had to Happen Eventually...

• 02.08.02  Repentant Vampire + Darkest Hour & More

• 02.06.02   Are Championship Cards Legal?  

• 02.04.02  Animate Dead+Iridescent Angel & More

• 02.01.02  More Questions!

• 01.30.02  Cabal Ritual + Mirari = Infinite Mana?

• 01.29.02  Ask the Judge

• 01.25.02  Cabal Ritual and More

• 01.23.02  Ask the Judge