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 counter a land-creature?
Say my opponent plays Dryad Arbor. Can I counter it with a Cancel from my hand? I know that lands can't be countered because they don't go on the stack, but what about land-creatures?
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Increasing Vengeance and new targets
Increasing Vengeance states "Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If Increasing Vengeance was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the ...
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Multiple cards in play with “At the beginning of your upkeep…”
I had several humans on the battlefield.
On turn three, I played Triumph of Ferocity. On turn four, I played Descendants' Path. On turn five, during my upkeep, this question came up.
At this ...
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How to describe the strengths and weaknesses of white to a new mtg player?
When I'm teaching Magic: The Gathering to a new player, one of the things I usually give them early on is a run down of each of the different colors and its pros and cons. I usually try to come up ...
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What happens if a blocking creature with flying loses flying?
Lets say that both my opponent and I both have a 1/1 white flying spirit. Now lets say I declare my spirit as an attacker, and my opponent declares their spirit as a blocker. After they declare ...
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How much damage do my other Goblins deal if my Goblin Chieftain dies during the first strike step?
I was playing against my son tonight and an issue came up that we disagreed on. We looked in the rules, but that just made things murkier for us.
I attacked with Goblin Chieftain (2/2), Goblin ...
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What is the converted mana cost of a spell with {X} when cast with the Miracle mechanic?
Say I topdeck Entreat the Angels and cast it for its miracle cost of XWW. But my opponent wants to counter it with a CMC-based effect, such as Spellstutter Sprite or Spell Burst.
202.3. The ...
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Where can I find a database with a list of all magic cards?
I am going to write a program to manage my library of Magic cards and I am looking for a database file or list of all of the cards that have been released. I know that the Gathering site is useful, ...
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If I attack with 2 creatures that both have “All creatures able to block this creature do so”, how are blockers determined?
Say I have 2 creatures enchanted with Lure or 2 Taunting Elves attacking: Does my opponent get to choose which of their creatures blocks each one or do I? What if one of those attacking creatures also ...
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How does trample interact with damage prevention effects and indestructible blockers?
Say I have a 4/4 creature with trample. I attack, and my opponent blocks with a...
0/1 creature that is indestructible: Does my 4/4 trampler's extra 3 damage carry over even though the blocking ...
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Does trample damage hurt players even if the creature dies?
I'm playing myself with two Avacyn Restored decks from a 6-booster sealed prerelease tournament, and wonder whether a 6/4 creature with trample blocked by a 4/1 creature would still allow damage ...
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Suitable drafting rules for multi-set repacks?
For fun we picked up a booster box of multi-set repacks at our LGS (really cheap). Our intention was drafting, but we found that since they are multi-set the cards lack the synergies when drafting ...
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How many cards per booster pack in the Core M12 Sealed Booster Box?
I want to buy a booster box to hold some office drafts.
I remember booster packs as having 15 cards per pack, which is in line with what Wikipedia says:
Starting with the Shards of Alara block, ...
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Why play Land Grant?
When looking through recent results of Pauper daily events in Magic Online, I noticed that some of the Infect decks are using Land Grant.
For the life of me, I can't figure out what this card is ...
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Where can I practice MTG draft online and actually play against my opponents for free?
I've been having fun practicing drafts on draft simulators like this one, but sometimes I'd like to actually be able to play with the deck I built. Since all of the other players on these simulators ...
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Relative amounts of luck in MTG limited formats?
While I haven't played very much, I've noticed there seems to be slightly more luck in sealed than in draft. In draft, skill can prevail by recognizing bombs/archetypes, observing what colors are ...
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Recommended strategies for the MTGO Cube
MTGO Cube Drafts were offered online a few weeks ago, and they'll be appearing again later this week. I didn't play any cube drafts the first time, largely because I was intimidated: I've never ...
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How do i go about selling my old MTG cards? [closed]
Ok I started playing Magic The Gathering back around 1993-94 only played for about 6 months and havent played the cards since then. Just found them in the attic and heard they can be worth something.I ...
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When to choose what colors I will play and vary my picks accordingly?
In the first round of a draft, I usually just pick the best card from every pack. After that I look at what I've picked, try to pick good on-color card in the second pack, and pick whatever my deck ...
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If my opponent casts a spell that exiles a card with flashback from my graveyard, can I play it in response to their spell?
Say my opponent casts Purify the Grave on my Rally The Peasants in my graveyard. If I have enough mana available, can I cast the Rally the Peasants in response to their trying to exile it?
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Can Morbid be triggered after the Morbid creature is cast?
I have a Deranged Outcast and no other creatures in play, and I have an Ulvenwald Bear in hand. I would like to:
Cast the Bear and put the Morbid trigger on the stack
Have the Deranged Outcast ...
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Is it possible to get old Vanguard cards?
If you start Magic Online today, is there a way to acquire Vanguard cards that do not come with the client but have been released in the past? Can they be bought or traded?
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Do copied spells use the original's casting location?
Let's say I flashback an Increasing Vengeance in order to copy a Shock twice. Then, I cast Reverberate from my hand targeting the Increasing Vengeance which in turn will also copy the Shock. Will ...
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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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Got a Magic the gathering zombie deck and swapped some cards, opinions? [closed]
1 Royal Assassin
1 Havengul Runebinder
1 Nefashu
1 Havengul Lich
1 Gravecrawler
1 swallowing plague
1 Terror
1 Stir the Grave
1 Lich Lord of Unx
1 Nemesis of Reason
1 Headless Skaab
1 Makeshift Mauler
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How can I beat green Tron with a control deck?
I've been building a Modern control deck based around the Gifts reanimator engine. The general gameplan is to slow your opponent using counters and removal until you can reanimate a big creature for ...
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Is Loyal Cathar's ability a “delayed triggered ability”?
Loyal Cathar - When Loyal Cathar dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
Question reposted from user Zacula:
"I believe that ...
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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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How does the Miracle mechanic interact with Flashback?
The new Miracle mechanic causes a replacement effect for the casting cost of the card, which must be revealed and played immediately. How does this interact with flashback? If a player plays a card ...
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If my creature with deathtouch and 0 power blocks one of my opponent's creatures, does my opponent's creature die?
Deathtouch means that "any creature dealt damage by another creature with deathtouch is destroyed", but what if that creature with deathtouch is 0/1? I suppose a better title would be 'does a creature ...
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How does Hypnotic Specter work in Two-Headed Giant?
If I attack with Hypnotic Specter and the defending team does not declare a blocker, should I "target" who is going to discard a card randomly? Or do they decide?
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Crimson Hellkite vs Telekinetic Sliver + Darkheart Sliver
If player A taps his Telekinetic Sliver to tap an opponent's Crimson Hellkite, the opponent can pay 2 red mana (he can pay X, but lets say he pays two) and tap the Crimson Hellkite to put the effect ...
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Has the significance of the term 'cast' changed?
Spellshock currently has the following wording in the Gatherer:
Whenever a player casts a spell, Spellshock deals 2 damage to that player.
However, the original wording shown in the card image ...
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Can a creature be tapped to prevent its activated ability? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do twitch effects work with the stack vs activated tap abilities?
If I have a creature with a tap to activate ability, can my opponent use an ability to tap it in ...
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What happens when I remove Mistbind Clique with its champion trigger still on the stack?
So, this recently happened to me in playtesting:
It's my upkeep. My opponent casts Mistbind Clique.
I don't have a relevant counter, but I do have Path to Exile. He has multiple fairies on the ...
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Is untapping my permanents during the untap step optional?
I was reading the untap step rule and got confused a bit. It says:
502.2. Second, the active player determines which permanents he or she controls will untap. Then he or she untaps them all ...
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Does the flanking provided by Slivers stack?
If I was to play 2 Sidewinder Slivers would the 'All Slivers have flanking' ability stack causing creatures blocking my Slivers to get -2/-2 until the end of the turn or would it gain flanking twice ...
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Can Angel's Grace set your life total to 1 when you have Negative Life?
An opponent plays a storm combo, ending in Tendrils of Agony. In response I play Angel's Grace. After the storm of Tendrils finishes resolving, I am at -10 life, but I have not lost the game ...
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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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Does a creature returned by the Undying effect have summoning sickness?
As far as I understand the undying ability, a creature returned to the battlefield by its undying effect with a +1/+1 counter on it is considered a new object. Due to this it cannot attack if it ...
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Undying vs first strike
What happens when an undying creature dies being dealt damage by a creature with first strike in a combat?
For example:
If Nearheath Stalker blocks an Abattoir Ghoul and dies will he deal combat ...
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What happens to an Inkmoth Nexus that has had Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas' -1 ability used on it?
From my initial expectations I'd expect otherwise, but I was recently told at a tournament that an activated Inkmoth Nexus that had been the target of Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas' -1 ability ("Target ...
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What happens if you cast a card that says “Target Opponent” in Two Headed Giant?
Let's say I'm playing a game of 2HG, and I cast Tribute To Hunger, which reads:
Target opponent sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to that
creature's toughness.
Do I get to pick which ...
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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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Copying Soul Seizer
In a recent sealed queue I entered, my opponent had a Soul Seizer on the board, and a Cackling Counterpart in his hand. Soul Seizer has the following ability:
When Soul Seizer deals combat damage ...
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Can a creature with summoning sickness be targeted?
Can I target a creature as soon as it is played, even with summoning sickness?
Example: If my card, Beguiler of Wills, reads "Gain control of target creature," or Dungeon Geist's "tap target creature ...
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Why was the banding ability 'removed' from MTG? What was so complicated about it?
While the banding ability was never actually removed from the game, no cards have been printed that use the ability in any set following sixth edition and it has never appeared on any rules summary ...
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Countering cards played with flashback
Can a card cast using its flashback ability be countered by a spell such as Cancel?
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MTG: Enchantments that require opponent to pay mana to attack
I had a deck many years ago that was blue/white and used a blue enchantment that made players pay 2 colorless to attack. I can't remember the name of the card, but it was around Mirage, no later than ...
