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I graduated U.C. Davis with a BS in CS, now I'm a programmer with a love of web development and databases.
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Oct 14 |
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What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? Opinions seem to favor trusting the rules quotes to communicate parts of the answer (to a point) so I'll adhere to that in judging future answers. (This was already a fine answer anyway.) |
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Oct 13 |
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What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? I should add, I feel quoting the rules still adds value: finding the relevant sections is an important step in verifying the answer. |
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Oct 13 |
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What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? @ghoppe In my experience, the rules are scary; all of my friends ignore anything that looks like a quote from the rules, so that's how I read answers here: skip the rules, see if the added text includes the correct answer. The question about triggers comes up all the time, so I felt it was worth restating "in English" so people might read it. If you feel strongly that redundancy is bad, I'll be happy to remove these comments. This could be worth talking about on meta: do we teach just the rules or how to read the rules? |
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Oct 13 |
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What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? Your example doesn't match your title. "Returning a creature to its owner's hand" is not what Astral Slide does. There are special rules for a zone now called "Exile", older cards called this "Removed from game". When you exile something, its not on the battlefield so it can't be affected by things like Wrath of God, but it also isn't in your hand to be played. Where I play we usually just set them off to the side. David's answer is correct either way, for a player's hand or exile. |
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Oct 13 |
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What happens when you remove a token creature from the game, and then return it under it's owner's control? Please note, the token does actually change zones first before disappearing, so if something would trigger "Whenever a creature leaves the battlefield", the token will cause this just like a creature card. |
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Oct 13 |
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In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells? This is why I was looking for someone to confirm. I was incorrect! I was thinking about the conditions, how many spells played, but not the turn itself not causing the trigger. I got to thinking werewolves get free turns to flip, nearly automatically, but the triggered abilities not even triggering on the extra turns makes much more sense all around. Thank you. |
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Oct 13 |
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In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells? But what about the out of range player's turn? The turn has to exist in case the player next to you plays spells that affect you during that turn such as Volcanic fallout to kill an attacking 2/2, but which also kills your creatures. So werewolves will just automatically flip with enough out of range player's taking turns? |
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Oct 13 |
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In MTG, do Werewolves transform due to an out of range turn? Or an out of range player's spells? I don't believe that's correct. Global Enchantments don't affect creatures outside their range, "Destroy all creatures" is limited by range, auras fall of if the object they enchant moves out of range. (by such effects as Mind Control) I'm going to double check if its actually called "spell" range, cause it seems to affect everything. |
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Sep 20 |
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In MTG, can I use Stave Off to save my creature from Oblivion Ring? In my experience, what you can't do, bring your creature back, is what most players WANT the card to do with Stave Off, probably relating to drawing it after their creature is gone. |
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Sep 20 |
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In MTG, can I use Stave Off to save my creature from Oblivion Ring? @ghoppe Basic or not, the question gets asked a lot. Oblivion Ring is a difficult card for all the players I've taught the game to. |
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Sep 19 |
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In MTG, can I use Stave Off to save my creature from Oblivion Ring? I have an answer for this, but I'd prefer to accept a correct & complete answer from another user. I'll add my answer tomorrow otherwise. That won't be necessary now will it? |
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Sep 17 |
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In MTG, what happens when a player loses in multiplayer? That seems like an answer to me. I'm inclined to do more research into the Healing Salve situation, as the other situations you confirmed what I thought would happen, but with that you sound no more certain than I am. Also, I'd +1 just for bolding random words. That was awesome. |
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Sep 16 |
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How much would it cost to get started with Magic: The Gathering? Do you actually mean a starter deck? That's very odd from my experience, but regardless I'll just amend my statement to be that booster packs is what most can expect, if only because that's what's recommended: "The DCI recommends that 6 boosters per player are used for individual format Sealed Deck tournaments and 3 boosters per player are used for individual Booster or Team Rochester Draft tournaments." - Tournament Floor Rules |
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Sep 14 |
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How much would it cost to get started with Magic: The Gathering? Sealed deck no longer uses decks, (they don't even print tournament packs anymore) but a set number of booster packs always. I don't recall exactly but I believe it is 5 or 6. |
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Sep 14 |
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Does anybody know of a list of color-appropriate effects for new cards in Magic? There is actually a special archive on the MTG website for Mark Rosewater's color pie articles: wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Archive.aspx?tag=Color%20Pie |
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Oct 21 |
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What are good placement strategies for Stratego? +1 for "you inform your opponent that that piece is NOT a bomb." |
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Oct 19 |
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Which property group colour gives the best ROI , undeveloped or fully developed, in Monopoly? Your source specifically mentions "The best return on investment to be found is from putting a third house on New York Avenue." (Most Expensive Orange) I would bet that Orange is therefor the best as a group for ROI. |
