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Can an opponent respond to me sacrificing a creature with Diamond Valley?
Your opponent cannot do this. Diamond Valley sacrifices a creature as part of its activation cost, not part of its effect. By the time your opponent has the ability to respond to Diamond Valley being ...
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Goddric, Cloaked Reveler and Witness Protection
Goddric is a 1/1 Citizen. With Dress Down, Goddric is instead a 4/4 Dragon.
The abilities
Goddric's ability says
As long as two or more nonland permanents entered the battlefield under your control ...
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If a Ring-bearer loses all abilities, does that include The Ring's abilities?
The effect preventing you from blocking is not an ability on the creature, so Witness Protection does not remove it.
Rule 702.51c says
If a player doesn’t have an emblem named The Ring at the time ...
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Does Mizzix/Reiterate/Electrodominance infinite loop work?
There is a loop here, but not the one you describe. Buyback does not "remove [the card] from the graveyard", it is an additional cost you pay while casting a spell, to make it go back into ...
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Do sentence breaks, conjunctions, or "also" have any rules meaning?
No, you simply apply the rules of the English language unless the wording matches a specific pattern in the rules that would signify some property, such as an ability being triggered, or it creating a ...
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Can the Treasure token from Collectors Vault be used to pay for Madness cost?
Yes, you can do this.
The ability of Madness that lets you actually cast it is a triggered ability. It will only go on the stack the next time a player would gain priority, which is after the ...
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Why are some cards out of collector number sequence in MTG:Lord of the Rings
There is a reason! The Lord of the Rings set code has lots of different ranges representing different product releases, and the numbering will restart for each of those ranges.
The main set, found in ...
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Why are some cards out of collector number sequence in MTG:Lord of the Rings
The Scryfall page for "set:LTR" shows why the collector numbers are ordered that way. The "in boosters" group has the contiguous set of collectors numbers from 1 to 281, plus 332 ...
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Would exiled cards from Gorex be usable after it dies?
No. Each Gorex can only choose from the cards which that specific Gorex exiled. If one Gorex leaves the battlefield and you recast that same card in any way, it's a new Gorex with its own set of ...
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Are there examples where Arena has implemented the rules incorrectly?
Assuming that the analysis from the members here is correct, Arena is getting the rules incorrect in the scenario in this question: Goddric should be a 1/1 Citizen, but Arena has Goddric as a 1/1 ...
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