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Does Vexing Bauble counter taxed 0 mana spells?
No, Vexing Bauble will not counter a spell that was cast with a mana tax.
Vexing Bauble's ability says
Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
and Thorn ...
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Commit a Crime and spell copies
No, creating a copy of a spell does not commit a crime, no matter what the copy targets.
In that quotation from the wiki, the first paragraph is the glossary definition, while the second is the actual ...
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Was using an older version of a legal card from a nonlegal set ever not legal?
No, cards with the same name have always been legal to play, regardless of the set they were printed in.
For deckbuilding purposes, the English name of a card has always been the only deciding factor ...
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Does Vexing Bauble counter taxed 0 mana spells?
The rulings on Vexing Bauble covers this situation, it even mentions Thorn of Amethyst directly (Emphasis mine):
If a spell is cast with an alternative cost that includes mana (such as flashback), ...
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Sacrifice condition of Hope of Ghirapur
No, as you cannot select a legal target if Hope has not dealt combat damage, so you cannot activate the ability.
(see rulings here: 115.1c An activated ability is targeted if it identifies something ...
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What is the most complete collection of CR versions?
The Academy Ruins rules archive has comprehensive rules documents from between 1999 and the present day, plus the Fifth Edition rulebook from 1997.
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Was using an older version of a legal card from a nonlegal set ever not legal?
There's one tournament I know of in which it might not have been legal to freely use older versions of reprinted cards: the first Pro Tour in February 1996. The format for this tournament was a ...
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When a creature enchanted with Fungal Fortitude dies and returns to the battlefield, does it keep Fungal Fortitude?
No, when a creature leaves the battlefield, auras attached to it will fall off and die. The creature that returns, even if it's the same card, is a new object with no relation to its former existence.
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Commit a Crime and spell copies
Copying a spell and choosing new targets for the copy isn't a crime, so that in and of itself won't cause any crime triggers, however there are two areas around copying spells that might:
You may ...
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In what order do spells and attraction visit abilities go on the stack when visiting attractions?
You choose the order of all of the abilities triggered by visiting your attractions, and as a result, you also control the order in which you cast the spells.
Myra's activated ability says the ...
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What does "float mana" typically mean?
Most of these answers are close, but a little off, I think most of the answerers have a similar misunderstanding of what it means to float mana. You don't need to cast a spell to have mana floating, ...
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When a creature enchanted with Fungal Fortitude dies and returns to the battlefield, does it keep Fungal Fortitude?
So when a creature enchanted by Fungal Fortitude dies, does the creature retain the enchantments it had before dying?
No. When a permanent leaves the battlefield, all other permanents that are ...
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What is the most complete collection of CR versions?
There is a blog hosting the rulebooks and various other materials from their earliest versions to about 2015
Link
The CR go from 1993 to 2015, although only in 1999 do they get the modern format and &...
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