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16h	comment	What is the point in disclosure of the bidding system to opponents? @qble It sounds like there's an additional excellent question there: what exactly does it mean to disclose a bidding system, and what determines whether it's a legal one?
May 14	comment	Can an opponent destroy an Iron Maiden during their upkeep to avoid taking damage from it? The yes/no question you asked in your title was different from the ones you ask in the body of your question; I changed the title since the answers are already matched to the body. (Lucky you - often people focus on the title and just skim the body!)
May 11	comment	How much would it cost to get started with Magic: The Gathering? You're still assuming the OP wants to play in tournaments (and likes drafting). There are an awful lot of people just playing casually, though. If you just want to play with your friends and aren't into Limited tournaments, then it of course makes no sense to use them as a way to buy boosters!
May 9	comment	Mini game within a game Also, if what you're actually looking for is to learn how a mechanic like this might be used (and how well it works), you might want to edit your question. As it is, you're kind of polling (asking for a list of many games), as evidenced by the answers, which is a valid reason to close questions, since we like directly answerable questions.
May 9	comment	How much would it cost to get started with Magic: The Gathering? No one ever explained their downvotes, but there are a few main problems with your answer. You assume that everyone only wants to play in tournaments, when the OP is clearly a casual player. Further, you assume that everyone will prefer the same kinds of tournaments you do (vintage, legacy, and limited) when standard is a quite popular format (even though you think it's horrible). And finally, your knowledge and terminology is wildly out of date - the "type 1/1.5/2" names were changed by 2005.
May 9	comment	Mini game within a game Enter the Dungeon not only has you play a Magic subgame but you play it under the table. (I suppose there was also Shahrazad, but that's clearly not as cool.)
May 8	comment	First strike and bioshift @wesdfgfgd If your opponent has the opportunity to "respond" with a life gain spell or ability, then you also have the opportunity to play Bioshift. But really, there's no need to specify that you're trying to deal lethal damage to your opponent. The question of whether you can both kill the creature and hit your opponent hard is perfectly valid even if your opponent isn't dead.
Apr 23	comment	When should I activate Man Lands and Keyrunes in order to attack with them? @Rawrgramming What you're saying here is that the commonly used shortcut goes to the declare attackers step. That's orthogonal to the question you actually asked, about activating these abilities. Clearly, the rules give you the choice to activate them during the beginning of combat step (for whatever reason). Yes, there are things you can say which translate to "I'm skipping over that step", but it seems you're being really eager to restate that as "you can't do anything in that step unless you can justify it to a judge."
Apr 23	comment	When should I activate Man Lands and Keyrunes in order to attack with them? 507. Beginning of Combat Step ... 507.3. Third, the active player gets priority. Players may cast spells and activate abilities.
Apr 21	comment	Creating easy to learn but difficult to master games For a summary of our Q&A format, see the about page; for more see the faq. The one thing here that might be a fit is something like "what factors cause simple rules to result in complex games?" But asking about "what would the rules be?" is obviously an unanswerable question - there are so many different games in this category.
Apr 20	comment	Can I have multiple copies of a creature with Cipher? @Affe Thanks, some careless languages on my part!
Apr 19	comment	Does transforming keyrunes count towards Evolve? (The duplicate is about lands turning into creatures, but I think it's pretty clear the answer wouldn't be different for an artifact.)
Apr 19	comment	Does transforming keyrunes count towards Evolve? possible duplicate of If a land becomes a creature, has it entered the battlefield?
Apr 11	comment	Is there a term for: “Doesn't untap during next untap step”? The first three are good, because they can be used both as an action and a state, e.g. "I paralyze your creature" "nooooo it's paralyzed". ("Tangle" isn't quite as nice as the other two, but still works.) But sleep is awkward - "I put your creature to sleep"? "I sleep your creature"? In any case, +1, coining names based on existing cards is definitely the de facto convention.
Apr 10	comment	Are weighted games in Goko Dominion adventures winnable by sheer strategy? There's some amount of luck in Dominion, so presumably with a hypothetical optimal strategy there's still some chance you'll win, and then the combination of sheer strategy and playing N games would suffice. So... what exactly do you mean by "fair" and "viable strategy"?
Apr 9	comment	How can I speed up a game of High Frontier? ire_and_curses edited your title to avoid asking just for house rules - often when you find yourself asking how to change the rules, there's another way to accomplish what you want, without mucking with the balance of the game. Very commonly with play time questions, the best answer is something along the lines of SocioMatt's last suggestion (essentially, figure out how to play faster), and it's good to phrase your question so that you don't exclude that kind of answer.
Apr 5	comment	Can I sacrifice a permanent to pay an ability cost while the permanent's spell is still on the stack? If you change your example to "suppose my opponent responds with an instant that would counter it (like a Dissipate)" then this would perhaps be a more reasonable question.
Mar 31	comment	Can I flicker Aurelia to get more than two attack phases? You'll need another way to blink her - Restoration Angel doesn't work on Angels.
Mar 26	comment	Why is Bang! so predictable when I play it? @Coran The benefits of disguising your role are potentially huge. The costs of shooting, say, one of the right people and two of the wrong people aren't really that high. And my point about information was that if shots are fired earlier, there's potentially some information (combined with banter) before any final all-out shootouts like you were talking about.
Mar 17	comment	What happens when you can't conquer regions? @Let_Me_Be You have to choose to either conquer or go into decline, and if you choose conquer you remove all but one token from each region, then attack as you like. So yes, you do have to choose to conquer, but that's not the same as being required to attack someone. If you don't have any tokens to do anything with, there's nothing in there that forces you to empty out regions in order to attack. (Unless I've missed something - please do point us to a rules quote if you have one.)