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Jan 31	comment	*What happens when the {X} in Mind Grind is* zero?** @Gendolkari I think the restriction is there because the card would be confusing without it. The card says "Each opponent reveals cards from the top of his or her library until…" If X is 0 do they still reveal the top card? Rewording the instructions to be clear is harder than simply adding a restriction.
Jan 29	answered	+Cards, do you have to draw right away?
Jan 29	comment	+Cards, do you have to draw right away? @user4837 +action or +buy add to the number of actions and buys you get to perform during the action and buy phases of the turn. +cards means you immediately draw cards. There is no separate card drawing phase of your turn.
Jan 28	comment	Is Dimir's millstone strategy viable in Gatecrash sealed deck? If not, what can they do instead? I witnessed this at our prerelease: Chump Strider and Undercity Informer. Then a Sage's Row Denizen hit the battlefield. Mill is there.
Jan 22	revised	MTG Gatecrash Simic Strategies for a Prerelease event added 147 characters in body
Jan 22	revised	MTG Gatecrash Simic Strategies for a Prerelease event added 147 characters in body
Jan 22	revised	MTG Gatecrash Simic Strategies for a Prerelease event added 147 characters in body
Jan 22	answered	MTG Gatecrash Simic Strategies for a Prerelease event
Jan 22	comment	MTG Gatecrash Simic Strategies for a Prerelease event The really great part about the Phantom "drawback" is there aren't many creature slots on the high end of your mana curve (maybe 4-5 at most). Having a 5/5 that's re-castable will help those later drawn low-end evolve creatures become real threats.
Jan 17	comment	What are the odds of drawing a given card after discarding my initial hand? corsiKa and Stephen have the right odds if it truly is a "Wheel of Fortune" where you discard the first 7 and draw another 7. user1873 has the right odds if it's the more typical Magic multiplayer first mulligan: put the first 7 back into the deck and reshuffle, draw another 7.
Jan 16	answered	Could I turn Mistform Dreamer into a Shrine?
Jan 15	comment	Would changing the value of Scrabble tiles have a negative effect on the game? @thesunneversets nitpick: because the blank is worth 0, it's not always the best tile to draw. It's the tile that gives you the best chance to play, but there will (nearly) always be a tile that could have given you more points. ;)
Jan 15	comment	Would changing the value of Scrabble tiles have a negative effect on the game? Both ZA and QI along with 3,300 or so other words were added in the Fourth Edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary in 2006.
Jan 15	revised	What are the odds of drawing a given card after discarding my initial hand? Minor typo
Jan 14	comment	Does a card that affects 'each' creature affect creatures that enter the battlefield after it resolves? I think the answer is yes, but if you don't want to block with it, why wouldn't you wait until the Combat phase is over before casting it? :)
Jan 11	comment	Is it legal to take advantage of my opponent's priority mistakes? About @Matt's edit. He's right it's convention for players to not worry about priority during the upkeep, but in games I've seen and played, the opposite happens during combat and each step is usually explicitly handled: "Declare attackers?" "go" "attack with these" "No blockers" "combat damage?" Here's an interesting article on wizards.com about shortcut guidelines.
Jan 10	comment	Is it legal to take advantage of my opponent's priority mistakes? We're talking about the meaning of the word "shortcut" in the rules and the mutually agreed shortcuts which speed up the game. I interpret it as a mistake, clearly.
Jan 10	comment	Is it legal to take advantage of my opponent's priority mistakes? Here I thought I was being overly pedantic, but this has turned into an interesting debate. The issue for me is that simply declaring a spell isn't universally understood to be a shortcut for "we agree you pass priority first, yeah?" There are many examples of shortcuts in the tournament rules which would be irrelevant if this "master shortcut" were in force. In other words, simply declaring a spell when you don't have priority (or implied priority through words like "go" "combat damage?") is a misplay, not a shortcut.
Jan 10	revised	Is it legal to take advantage of my opponent's priority mistakes? deleted 785 characters in body
Jan 10	comment	Is it legal to take advantage of my opponent's priority mistakes? @Pablo I think you're right and I'll strike that part of the answer. There's no need to go through the ceremony.