Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game for 2 or more players, set in a variety of fantastical realms. The cards represent the player's resources and available spells and their interactions lead to an often high paced battle of wits.
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Can I use Act of Aggression to steal their attacking creature and block with it?
My opponent declares two creatures as attackers. I want to play Act of Aggression to gain control of one of their creatures and so I can have it block their other creature. Is this possible? Is so, ...
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Attacking with Zero Creatures
Two questions about attacking:
1) If I have creatures in play, can I declare an attack and then declare zero of the creatures as attackers?
2) If I have no creatures in play, can I declare an ...
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How do Snapcaster Mage and Cipher cards interact?
Let's say I cast a card with Cipher from my graveyard with the help of Flashback (provided by Snapcaster Mage). Will I be encoding it on a creature instead of exiling it from the effect of Flashback?
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Infinite loop where where both players choose to continue the loop
Yesterday, I was playing a casual game and I had a Stasis, Kismet, and Chronatog, causing my opponent to have to keep drawing, while I kept skipping my turn, with the intent of decking him.
My ...
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Could I turn Mistform Dreamer into a Shrine?
Mistform Dreamer says I can turn it into any creature type until the end of turn, could I turn it into a shrine for use with any of the Hondens?
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Does March of the Machines make artifacts in hand creatures as well?
I looked over the Gatherer rulings and it didn't mention anything about it, nor does it mention permanents on the card or in the rulings.
I ask because I wanted to know if I could use Æther Vial ...
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What are the odds of drawing a given card after discarding my initial hand?
Let's say that I have 4 of a card in my 60 card deck.
What are my odds of drawing at least 1 of that card in my initial 7 card hand?
If I discard those 7, what are the odds of drawing 1 of the 4 in ...
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Can a creature token represent a different creature token?
I have quite a few cards that have the ability to create creature tokens when they're played or their ability is activated. The only problem is I don't have the specific token for each one, but I ...
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Does a card that affects 'each' creature affect creatures that enter the battlefield after it resolves?
My opponent casts Predatory Rampage, which resolves, then he attacks with his creatures.
In my hand, I have a creature card with Flash. If I summon this creature before the declare blockers step, ...
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Can I respond to Cloudshift bringing something back into play?
Say I had Vedalken Orrery and I used Cloudshift on something, could I respond to Cloudshift bringing the creature back into play with Day of Judgement or something similar?
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How long can I wait before choosing to counter a spell?
Today, I was playing a duel, and my friend played a Wall of Reverence, which he then ended up enchanting with an Ethereal Armor. Between those two actions he asked me if I would counter it, to which I ...
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Is it legal to take advantage of my opponent's priority mistakes?
Suppose I attack with a creature with infect, and then my opponent tells me he won't block.
My intent is to use Giant Growth on my infect creature regardless of whether or not my opponent blocks.
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Nivmagus and cipher card rulings
Well since the new set is available I was wondering the combo between Nivmagus Elemental and cipher cards[1].
So let's assume that Nivmagus is on the field then I cast a cipher spell from my hand can ...
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Are copied Flashback cards cast from the graveyard? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are copied spells cast from the graveyard?
If a card like Increasing Devotion is copied and its Flashback cost has been paid, does the copy count as being cast from a ...
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Can instants be played after I decide not to block?
My friend has a green Infect deck. When he declares a creature to attack and I allow it to go through unblocked, he suddenly plays all these Instants that 'pump' the creature up, and because of ...
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Are tokens copying Essence of the Wild still tokens?
Some of my friends and I got into an argument about Essence of the Wild.
With Essence on the battlefield, I played Fungal Sprouting and put 6 1/1 green saproling creature tokens on to battlefield. ...
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Do face-down creatures with death trigger activate normally?
If a face-down creature has a "When this dies [...]" effect (i.e. because of Ixidron), will that effect activate when it dies?
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What exactly was so broken about Urza's Block?
I've often heard it said that the Urza Block (Urza's Saga, Urza's Journey, Urza's Destiny) was the most powerful, broken block in Magic history, with decks able to win on turn 1 or 2. I also saw it ...
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Software to search for MTG decks based on a list of cards
I haven't played MTG for a while, but I still own about 500 cards. Some of them were from pre-built decks, but now the cards are all randomized.
I have the full inventory (quantity and name) on a ...
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Can I use Naturalize to “counter” an activated ability?
I have a question regarding activated abilities.
My opponent has an Isochron Scepter (untapped). He wants to play the ability and taps it.
Is it possible to destroy the Isochron Scepter with ...
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If there are two Lighthouse Chronologist with three players, will one player be pereptually skipped?
If you would play a game with 3 people (let's call them A, B, and C) and A and B have a Lighthouse chronologist, will this make A get a turn after B, and make B get a turn after A without C getting a ...
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How do Heartless Hidetsugu and Gisela interact?
Let's say that I have Gisela, Blade of Goldnight in play and my opponent controls Heartless Hidetsugu. We both have 20 life.
When Heartless Hidetsugu is tapped, each player takes 10 damage, which is ...
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Cards for Reanimator in Cube
What cards should a good cube supporting reanimator decks contain? Which ones are crucial and what's extra.
I figure there are at least 3 types of cards:
Reanimation E.g. Animate dead, Necromancy.
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What happens when I copy Precursor Golem with Rite of Replication?
I came across this issue with my friend a while ago and came up with many possible answers:
How many golems will you get if you copy Precursor Golem with a kicked Rite of Replication?
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If Koth of the Hammer's plus one ability ends at end of turn, doesn't it make it useless?
How does Koth of the Hammer's plus one ability work when it ends right after you use it and the Mountain turned into a creature has summoning sickness (part of the rulings on Gatherer)?
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Is there an unofficial term for an artifact that produces mana?
Some terms have an unofficial but widely known meaning in Magic jargon. For example, a "cantrip" is a spell that lets you draw a card, and a "bear" is a vanilla 2/2 (with "vanilla" having its own ...
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Pros and Cons of running a deck with no 1-mana spells?
Sometimes I've noticed myself building decks that have no spells that cost 0 or 1 mana, and instead have extra spells that cost 2 mana to make sure I don't get crushed in the early game. 1-drops only ...
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Marking white borders with black marker
Is it legal in competitive play to fill in the border of white-bordered MtG cards with black marker?
Which marker would be best to use, and why?
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Can creatures with Undying or Persist escape from Grave Betrayal?
Can creatures with Undying or Persist escape from Grave Betrayal?
702.77a Persist is a triggered ability. "Persist" means "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it ...
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When a land is granted a basic land type, what effects does that have?
For example:
I imagine this card is useful specifically because it denies the opponent the appropriate color of mana, if they are not already playing a blue deck. If I make a Swamp into an Island, ...
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How can I tell which sets are currently legal in various formats?
I haven't played Magic: the Gathering since the days of Onslaught and Mirrodin, and I would like to try to catch back up. Since all my cards are quite dated now, I may be more interested in formats ...
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Will a Havengul Vampire get its +1/+1 counter for killing a creature and prevent it from dying?
Suppose my opponent has a Havengul Vampire, and I have a Young Wolf which has a +1/+1 counter on it so it is 2/2.
What happens if they deal damage to each other, for example during combat? Will the ...
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Why creature enchantments aren't playable?
I've read an article recently about the M 2013 core set and it states that:
Well, everyone knows creature enchantments aren’t playable...
Why exactly creature enchantments aren't playable? I'm ...
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Does a Angel of Glory's Rise and a Fiend Hunter combo work like I think it does?
The scene I envision is that I have a graveyard full of humans, one of which is a Fiend Hunter. I play Angel of Glory's Rise and put all my humans from my graveyard and onto the battlefield, and when ...
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Where do Auras go when a card is put on top of its owner's library?
Say a player casts a card that returns a permanent to the top of owner's library, for example Banishment Decree, and the targeted creature card he chooses has two Auras enchanting it. Where do the ...
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What are those magic symbols?
Having found a nice vector graphics for magic symbols, I wonder what the symbols on the second-to-last row are. I recognize tap, untap, infinite and half, and the last one as the earlier white, but ...
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Stinkweed Imp + Rancor and a flying 3/3 blocker
Does Stinkweed Imp with Rancor get the extra trample damage if a 3/3 flyer blocks? Is Stinkweed's text is the same as an actual deathtouch?
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How has the rise of limited formats affected MTG set design?
One of the great thing about playing limited is that you have to work with what you've got, no matter how bad it is. This means that even some of the worst cards will occasionally see limited play ...
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Are there vector graphics available of the mana symbols of magic?
I'm looking for vector graphics of each of the mana symbols (normal, hybrid, phyrexian, 2-or-color). Where can I find them?
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How do you handle fast players in a casual setting that skip priority?
This really isn't a problem in a tournament setting, because players are expected to know the rules, and will usually ask their opponent if they wish to take any actions before allowing a spell to ...
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Is it possible to counter cards that boost a creatures power during the combat phase?
For example, if someone attacks with a 3/3 creature, and you have a 5/5 creature that will ultimately block and destroy his creature.
If they boosts their creature with a +3/+3 spell, can you counter ...
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Do Regenerate and/or Totem Armor counteract the Legend rule?
Can a regeneration shield or a totem armor aura protect a Legendary creature from getting killed by a clone of itself?
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Question about MTG card Flamebreak
I was using Flamebreak during the MTG pc game, and I had a 5/4 without flying. I used it, and the 5/4 died! Why? It says it only deals 3 dmg to non-flying creatures.
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Magic the gathering box
I am trying to do a calculation for modern masters that is coming out next year and to complete it I need to know, How many commons, uncommons, rares and mythics are in a regular set of mtg(Scars of ...
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How many of the same artifact can be on the battlefield at once?
How many of the same artifact can be on the battlefield at once? For example, could I play more than one Dragon's Claw or Angel's Feather?
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Worldfire order of events
Say I have a
Keldon Marauders on the battlefield. The card reads:
When Keldon Marauders enters the battlefield or leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player.
I then cast Worldfire.
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How do Captivating Vampire and Deadeye Navigator abilities interact?
In a recent casual game, an opponent controlled a Captivating Vampire and had enough untapped Vampire creatures in play to use its ability. I had a Deadeye Navigator on the battlefield, and on my ...
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How many missed triggers are necessary before you begin to have Game Losses and/or DQs?
While reviewing the latest changes to the Magic Infraction Procedure Guide, I notice that a missed trigger is considered a Warning, but that,
Judges should not intervene in a missed trigger ...
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Are copied spells cast from the graveyard?
If you copy Increasing Confusion or any other "cast from the graveyard" spell with Increasing Vengeance, does the copy act like it was cast from the graveyard? Or, since the copy technically was not ...
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Does Steel Hellkite destroy cards in my opponent's library and hand?
The rules for Steel Hellkite say any nonland permanent with converted mana cost X gets destroyed if I deal combat damage this turn. The second ruling states "It doesn't matter who controlled ...
