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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What are the possible archetypes in Innistrad draft?
Assuming Innistrad-Innistrad-Innistrad in a booster draft, what are the potential archetypes a player could draft?
For a reference, see Alex P's answer to another quetion here
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When a general goes to the graveyard in EDH, does his casting counter reset in the command zone?
11) While a Commander is in the command zone, it may be cast. As an additional cost to cast a Commander from the command zone, its owner must pay {2} for each time it was previously cast from the ...
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Timings of Mana Costs vs Mana Payments
If I have 7 lands and a Wild Cantor (or another creature that sacrifices to produce mana, e.g. an Eldrazi Spawn token) in play, and there are no other creatures on the battlefield, can I cast ...
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Is “The Aristocrats” the first WBR deck to top 8 a Pro Tour?
Tom Martell won Pro Tour Gatecrash with "The Aristocrats", a white-black-red deck that plays Cartel Aristocrat, Falkenrath Aristocrat, and Blasphemous Act.
This is a historically poor color ...
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Choosing new targets for a spell with a variable number of targets
Rolling Thunder can have any number of targets. I play the Rolling Thunder choosing three target creatures. I copy the Rolling Thunder with Reverberate and can choose new targets for the copy.
Can I ...
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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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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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Why does Wizards of the Coast print terrible MTG cards?
I understand that there needs to be a wide variety of power levels in Magic: The Gathering. Even bad cards will see play in limited formats, some because they fill a specific niche (flying removal, ...
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What does protection from [quality] do?
Example 1) Let's say I have some random creature with protection from white, and my opponent plays Day of Judgement, a white card with the effect "destroy all creatures." Can my creature with ...
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How do I deal with Enchantments while playing mono-red?
I have played different mono-red decks in the past and my main problem with all of them is playing against decks with strong enchantments (e.g. Circle of Protection: Red). As soon as this enchantment ...
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Why does Mana-Burn exist in Magic: The Gathering?
My understanding of Mana-Burn is that if you have any left over mana in your mana-pool at the end of your turn, you loose that many life. But why is this rule necessary? The only time I see it come ...
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Which damage number does lifelink use to determine the life gain?
I have recently began playing a deck that has a number of creatures with lifelink in it. I want to be certain I understand the mechanic and the following question occurred to me.
Which damage total ...
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How do twitch effects work with the stack vs activated tap abilities?
I'm becoming more and more confused as I learn about how things have changed during a break in play I had some time ago. Seems the stack has changed now, and oft times abilities use a source's last ...
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How many Diabolic Tutors is too many?
Everyone loves the Diabolic Tutor:
But how many tutors is too many? If I'm running a mono-black or black-heavy deck, is there any reason to not just put in four Tutors? What are the possible ...
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Looking for the “magic'al” formula
Im a big fan of the Magic the Gathering trading card game.
And with all these new cards coming in, I was wondering how the cards were balanced, and manacost calculated.
Im thinking there must be a ...
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Can Aquamoeba beat Glory Seeker with discards?
Can Aquamoeba beat Glory Seeker if the Aquamoeba owner discards one or more cards during the fight?
Discard a card from your hand: switch Aquamoeba's power and toughness until end of turn. 1/3 ...
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Hypersonic dragon => instant scavenge?
The rule text of Hypersonic Dragon says
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.)
Can I cast scavenge as an instant now?
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If I Unsummon a blocking creature will my attacker damage my opponent?
Suppose Player 1 has a Dragon on the table and Unsummon in hand, while Player 2 has two Spiders on the table.
Player 1 chooses to attack with the Dragon and Player 2 chooses to block with one of the ...
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Where can I sell my Magic: The Gathering cards?
I played for quite a few years and have a ton of cards that I want to get rid of. I have a mix of all editions before 2007. 7th, 8th, etc...
So the question is where can I sell them effectively. And ...
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In MTG what happens to equipment after playing “Temporary Insanity”
A friend of mine and I were playing the Knights vs Dragons duel deck. He had a Kinsbaile Cavalier
upon which he equipped the Loxodon Warhammer. On my next turn, I proceeded to play Temporary ...
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Where can I find a good source for standard decks in Magic: The Gathering?
I am just getting back into Magic: The Gathering, and I see a lot of people talking about specific decks, like CawBlade. So my question is two fold, is there someplace that lists what cards make up ...
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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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Havengul Lich on Reassembling Skeleton - can the Lich cast itself for 1B this turn?
Havengul Lich says
1: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast that card this turn, Havengul Lich gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.
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Can a creature with protection from all colors be targetted with a damage spell when it is still on the stack?
A friend of mine casts a card that has protection from all colors.
I know that I can counter it, but can I simply kill it by dealing damage to it while it is on the stack?
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Are cards that interact with sacrificing rare, and why?
For independent reasons, I was looking recently for cards that interact with Sacrificing. At the time (owing mostly to my lack of knowledge in MtG templating), I found none. Looking at the Avacyn ...
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Does “prevent all damage to target creature” save the other creatures in a gang block?
In The Great Designer Search 2, one of the participants designed this card:
CW15 - Improvised Shield
1W
Instant
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.
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Is it impossible to pay off-color mana costs in EDH?
In Commander, there is a rule that states:
During the game, if mana would be added to your mana pool that isn't a color in your commander's color identity, that much colorless mana is added to ...
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Can colorless mana be generated from things that say “Add one mana of any color to your mana pool”?
Can colorless mana be generated from things that say "Add one mana of any color to your mana pool"?
One example card would be Coalition Relic.
Reasons:
For example for sunburst spells, when the ...
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How does casting a card for its miracle cost interact with cost modifying abilities?
If I reveal and cast a miracle like Temporal Mastery, Bonfire of the Damned or Entreat the Angels, When I am choosing a value for X, must it take into account effects like Thalia, Guardian of Thraben ...
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Are creatures destroyed if their destruction happens at the same instant they lose “indestructible”?
Scenario:
I play Timber Protector which makes all other Treefolk indestructible (I only have Treefolk in play).
My opponent plays a Day of Judgment.
Does this only destroy the ...
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Does Fateful Hour apply in this combat?
My opponent is at 7 life and has a Grizzly Bears (2/2) and a Gavony Ironwright (Fateful hour — As long as you have 5 or less life, other creatures you control get +1/+4.).
I attack with 2 2/2s and my ...
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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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What happens when I Radiate a Time Stretch with Timesifter in play?
The question is based on the following situation:
In a five person game, there has a been a Timesifter in play and the turn order has already been varied for a few turns. A player plays a Time ...
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Commander damage from Mimic Vat token?
I've exiled my commander using Mimic Vat. Do the tokens it creates from it deal commander damage?
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Does deathtouch kill Phantom creatures?
Does a Phantom creature, one with the ability "If damage would be dealt to Phantom {Creature}, prevent that damage. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Phantom {Creature}.", that has taken damage from a ...
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In Magic, when and why did the rules change to check life totals “continuously” instead of at the end of each phase?
In the old days, the rules of Magic specified that players' life totals were only checked at the end of a phase, or at the beginning or end of combat. The modern rules, however, specify that life ...
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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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Goldnight Commander and Thatcher Revolt
I'm not 100% sure what happens, if I have a Goldnight Commander on the battlefield and play a Thatcher Revolt. Do all three 1/1 red human tokens enter the battlefield at once, giving each of them ...
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Types of EDH mana base
After looking at a number of EDH deck lists I have seen two distinct types of mana bases used by various decks.
Some decks use a large number of basic lands, dual lands and utility lands.
Other ...
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How to build a multi-colour aggro deck to be more effective against control
I'm building a vintage deck for my friend, out of our combined pool of cards, which will have 3+ colours (atm it's three). She's a Vorthos/Timmy. She often builds her own deck out of the ...
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How does Infect resolve in M:TG?
I'm making a poison deck and want to check the Infect rules.
If a 2/2 creature with Infect is blocked by a vanilla 3/3 creature, what happens?
I know the 3/3 gets two -1/-1 counters instead of ...
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Are counters (noun) physical things?
Card example: Beckon Apparition (Gatecrash)
There are a lot of cards that use counter as a noun. I did some Googling but I'm just not clear on what I need to use for counters. Are they physical ...
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If I search for a Miracle and put it in my hand, can I cast it for its Miracle cost?
Lets say I use Mystical Teachings to grab Thunderous Wrath out of my library during my upkeep and put it in my hand. Can I then cast Thunderous Wrath for its Miracle cost?
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Hexproof on an opponent's creature
If I play an enchantment which gives hexproof on an opponent's creature, whose spells is it protected from? Does it gain protection from my spells because it's his creature, or from his spells ...
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Does Dormant Sliver mean Slivers can no longer attack?
Dormant Sliver
{2}{G}{U}
Creature -- Sliver
2/2.
All Sliver creatures have defender.
All Slivers have "When this permanent enters the battlefield, draw a card."
It would seem if all Slivers have ...
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Is there a term for: “Doesn't untap during next untap step”?
There are a lot of cards that have the effect
Target permanent does not untap during next untap step
For example:Kashi-Tribe Elite and Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger.
Is there a term for this? ...
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Does Pillar of Flame exile creatures with undying?
Let's say Pillar of Flame is used on a creature with undying, such as Butcher Ghoul, when it doesn't have any counters on it. If Pillar of Flame deals enough damage to kill it, and therefore exile it, ...
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Where can I get my Magic the Gathering play critiqued?
I started playing Magic again last year right after the release of Dark Ascension after a long hiatus. I decided to get more serious in trying to win, but I've hit a roadblock in my play. I go x-1 in ...
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How does trample work against infect?
My opponent attacks me with say, a 6/6 trample generic Wyrm of some sort, and I block with a Whispering Specter, a 1/1 infect with flying. When damage is dealt the Specter will deal it in the form of ...
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How to deal with damaged cards from a MTG booster pack?
I bought a Magic the Gathering display box today with cards from the new edition Innistrad. Unfortunately one of the cards in a booster pack was damaged. It is not just a simple scratch - one corner ...
