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Twilight Struggle: When are we allowed to do a Coup or Realignment Rolls?
I know this sounds like a silly question, but the rules are kinda awkwardly worded and I've seen some videos of Twilight Struggle where this restriction is overlooked.
From the rules (section 6.2.1):
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Which is the “Action Phase”?
A number of cards in the Starcraft Board Game (I believe it's exclusive to those from the Brood War expansion) refer to actions to be done during, or after, the "Action Phase".
The official ...
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Do Gather The Townsfolk's (or cards like it) tokens go on the stack separately?
A friend of mine was playing a deck that uses Cathars' Crusade and Gather the Townsfolk (and cards like it) to pump his creatures.
Another guy was watching and said that all the tokens went on the ...
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How to store cards when game boxes don't have slots for them
I have two board games which use a lot of cards, but their boxes don't have dedicated space to store them in an ordered manner and whenever I'd like to play them again I have to start with sorting all ...
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Can a player collect nobles after a day ends in Guillotine?
I was playing the game with two friends and there were just two cards left on the second day, when my friend decided to use the [Escape!] card which allowed him to Randomize and discard 2 cards.
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How much money would I have to spend to play in tournaments?
In posing this question, I realize that it may be out of scope for boardgames.SE; this question could be subjective and the monetary costs vary quite a bit between cheapest and most expensive decks. ...
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Playing Munchkin with only 2 players [duplicate]
I'm looking into playing Munchkin with only two players. According to the box and the rules the game was made for a minimum of 3 players (probably for good reasons), but I haven't been able yet to ...
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2answers
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Does non-combat damage affect Commander damage?
Do the effects of a Commander that deal (non-combat) damage, such as Obzedat, Ghost Council, count towards Commander damage?
I have not been able to find whether or not it has to be, specifically, ...
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Can I cast Killing Glare with X=0 while no creatures with zero power are on the battlefield?
I wonder if I am able to cast Killing Glare if there are no powerless creatures on the board?
For example to Extort after casting.
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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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Can fire cross walls into another room after an explosion?
If you read the Flash Point rules, it says to place a fire marker on each adjacent spot after an explosion. Does that mean place a fire on the other side of a wall? For instance, if the fire is in a ...
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APNAP rulings applied to world effects
Assuming you are an active player you play an Oracle of Mul Daya or Crucible of Worlds. Could you play your land before they kill Oracle of Mul Daya? Would you be able to play lands off of Crucible of ...
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Any online software available for scheduling of adhoc gaming groups? [closed]
I'm part of a new group of board and card gamers who'd like to meet on a regular basis, probably once or twice a month. We all work for different companies in different locations in the state at ...
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What happens when you blink a cipher-ed creature?
if I have a cipher ability encoded on a creature, and I cast a Restoration Angel, thus exiling and returning the creature to play, does the creature still have the cipher ability?
How about creatures ...
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When should you not place the robber to do the most damage in Settlers of Catan?
If you have the robber and are playing against the field, you might want to place it where it can do the most damage.
But my understanding is that sometimes the better use is to "sic" the robber on ...
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PDF with Shogi Zukou and Shogi Musou
I'm very interested in Shogi, and I have a board I bought from USA (I'm in México).
So of course I'm interested in Shogi tsume (mating problems), eventually I came to hear about Shogi Zukou by Kanju ...
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How does priority work in these cases?
I understand the ruling that when a Planeswalker resolves the player controlling the walker can activate its ability without their opponent getting priority in between.
Are there any other rules ...
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What is the average lifetime of a pack of casino cards?
I've heard that casinos never reuse a pack of cards for some anti-cheating reasons I was never quite able to figure out. Then they do various modifications to mark them as "used" cards (e.g. punch a ...
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Is the ability cost of the commander part of the color identity?
Consider the card Rhys the Exiled. Are you allowed to play black (and green) cards in your deck with this commander?
Or are you only allowed to play cards that are the same color as the commander's ...
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How long does mana from Burning-Tree Emissary stay around?
Does mana added to your pool from Burning-Tree Emissary get destroyed when the card that added it is destroyed?
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Can a sacrifice be used to pay for more than one effect? [duplicate]
Someone tried to play the following combo in a game I was in. I think it is an illegal play, so I wanted some help to clarify the rules.
The cards were:
1) Launch Party - "As an additional cost to ...
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Do I own a token that I create under somebody else's control?
I was reading somewhere a few days ago that when a player creates a token using a spell like Rapid Hybridization they own the token, even though they never had control of it. I can't seem to find the ...
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Ironworks and Great Hall combo
Just a quick question to be sure we are playing the right way.
Is getting a Great Hall by playing Ironworks let you draw a card and play another action since the Great Hall is both an action card and ...
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1answer
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Can a Djinn host a Parasite?
In Android: Netrunner, Djinn is a program that reads:
Djinn can host up to 3 [Memory Units] of non-icebreaker programs.
The memory costs of hosted programs do not count against your memory ...
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Is it allowed to win a game of cribbage with the single point from a “go”? [duplicate]
When playing cribbage and you're at a score of 120, can you then win the game by playing the last card and getting 1 point for the "go"? I've seen people play where you're not allowed to win via the ...
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What's actually good against Jund?
"Jund" is the red-black-green shard from Shards of Alara.
More importantly, however, it's a term for a midrange archetype in those colors, using a mixture of quick disruption, multi-faceted ...
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In bridge, do people go through cycles of under- and -over bidding?
In the board game Go, there are two basic styles, high and low. "High" is all the rage for about ten years, until people have forgotten how to play "low." Then "low" gets "rediscovered," and people ...
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Do things on the stack or state-based effects resolve between first strike and normal combat damage?
I have two examples of different scenarios that are confusing to me.
First, if I have a 1/1 creature with first strike and deathtouch, and my opponent blocks it with a 2/2 creature, will my creature ...
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Replacement coins for At The Gates of Loyang
I have the game, and one of the first things I noticed was the cardboard money. Not a fan, even though in this game it's really just another resource, and doesn't change hands often.
Anyone have a ...
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Are there any card games that enforce “Dealer's Respect”?
When playing card games like President at school, the dealer often declared "Dealer's Respect", which required that no player pick up their cards before the dealer had finished dealing, because the ...
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How can I tell if a card is likely to have “functional errata”?
Apparently there was a period in Magic's history when cards received significant "errata" between printings — not just templating updates or clarifications, but straight-up changes to what ...
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What is the meaning of OMP, GWP, OGP?
I am using mtgarena for my tournament organization.
What do OMP, GWP and OGP mean? Does anyone know what they stand for?
Example:
Player Points OMP GWP OGP
1 9 33.33 100 ...
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Multiple blockers with first strike
Scenario:
Player A attacks with a 6/6 creature.
Player B assigns TWO blockers to block the 6/6 creature, each is 3/3 with first strike.
Which of these happens?
B's first strike blockers deal their ...
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What happens when you die in Munchkin?
In the card game Munchkin, what happens when you die? I know you go back to level 1, and you lose all the cards in your hand and your items, but do you lose your class and race too?
And how does it ...
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Can you use Throne Room to Mine a Copper to a Gold?
One of the most frequent barely-civil discussions in my group is what is possible when you use Throne Room (repeat an action card), in conjunction with Mine (trash a treasure to gain a treasure with ...
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Monopoly Golden Token Bonus release date?
Recently, Hasbro has dropped its Iron piece and added a new Cat. Alongside this announcement, they were going to release a Monopoly Golden Token Bonus board that would have all the old pieces and the ...
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Help me identify this card game with secret, changing rules
A while ago, I played this card game with a handful of my friends. We used regular poker cards. We started playing the games without being told the rules. The only thing we were told was that it was ...
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Unique and fun rules for UNO
I know the regular rules for UNO, but over the years, playing with different people, I hear all kinds of different rules. I've hear different rules when a specific card is played, you and/or everybody ...
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Can I start with my identity card unrezzed?
The rules state
There are six types of Corporation cards: identities, operations, agendas, ice, upgrades, and assets... Corporation cards are installed facedown, and are inactive unless rezzed.
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Highest difficulty and creativity Sokoban map families [closed]
What are the possible ten maps with highest creativity metric (CM) for most popular Sokoban families: Sokoban, Sokomind, Multiban? Or at least, 10 maps with high difficulty?
There is a site which ...
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Can one creature block multiple attacks?
I'm not much of a Magic player myself, although I do know a bit about the game. Recently, I got into an argument about whether one creature can block multiple creatures' attacks.
It looks like rule ...
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Are normal infection cards still drawn after a player draws an epidemic card?
I didn't see a clear explanation for this in the rule book so I wanted to double-check.
If a player draws an epidemic card during their turn do they still need to draw from the infection pile as ...
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How exactly do cures affect future infection in Pandemic?
How does finding a cure affect future infections in Pandemic?
Scenario 1) Cure IS found, disease cubes for that same color DO exist on the board, and player draws an infection card matching that ...
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Are there many mandated “time outs” in tournament bridge?
In "Points, Schmoints," Marty Bergen related an instance in which he announced "skip bid," before "jumping" his partner's two diamond bid to the five level (instead of three). According to him, his ...
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Can one ask for a “time out” to study the hand in bridge?
"West" (the opening leader) has to lead before seeing the dummy. Both declarer (South) and partner (East) ought to study the dummy before playing. But often they do not.
Suppose South wins the trick, ...
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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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Does the wording “each land” also include Basic Lands?
I have a Bountiful Harvest. It's a Sorcery that reads "You gain l life for each land you control."
Does this refer to only cards that say Land and not Basic Land, or does it count for both?
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Is a “drop-finesse” better than a simple “drop” play with a nine card suit in bridge?
Regarding finesses for a missing queen in a key (e.g. trump suit), there is a proverb of "eight ever [always] nine never." Instead, one is supposed to play for a drop. (This, and most other proverbs ...
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Do you lose your nomad tile if you move all your settlements away?
Kingdom Builder with Nomads expansion
If you are the first who builds adjacent to a nomads space, you get the (only) nomads tile.
Do you lose it when you move all your settlements away from the ...
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If more than one user is on a twist phase do they each draw their own phase?
In Phase 10 Twist there are only 10 twist phases. If everybody drew their own twist phase then we'd run out really quickly.
So, if more than one person is on a twist phase at a time, do they all ...
