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What makes a good alternative to flipping a coin for 50/50 randomness?
Use a coinflip app, or physical 4- or 6-sided dice (calling odd/even or above/below half instead of heads/tails).
Both solutions fulfill all your criteria. You can further secure dice against falling ...
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Why do some MTG cards specify "land and/or Gate"?
If you read Navigation Orb, and probably most of those other cards, carefully, they actually specify "basic land and/or Gate", i.e. you can search for any Gate (which are indeed all lands), ...
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Do I get to order the outcome of a voting card on the stack in the way I want?
No, you cannot make this happen; this is due to the way the card is worded:
Whenever Círdan the Shipwright enters the battlefield or attacks, each player secretly votes for a player, then those votes ...
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What makes a good alternative to flipping a coin for 50/50 randomness?
If you have a phone which has a sufficiently accurate stopwatch (probably hundredths of a second is good enough, thousandths would be better) such that you can't reliably stop the stopwatch on any ...
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Can a triggered ability of a permanent with shroud be targeted?
Shroud has no effect on targeting abilities on the stack.
Shroud is defined in rule 702.18a:
Shroud is a static ability. “Shroud” means “This permanent or player can’t be the target of spells or ...
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What makes a good alternative to flipping a coin for 50/50 randomness?
Prologue: Why Randomness Is (Not) Hard in Real Life
Disclaimer: I might have designed too many probability theory basics exam questions in my life; whether this left permanent damage is up to you to ...
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Constricting sliver interaction with commander creatures
For multiple reasons, events cannot happen as described.
Immediately after the Constricting Sliver's ability resolves in step 2, player 2 has a choice: they can leave the commander in exile, or they ...
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When Kardur, Doomscourge is active, do myriad-empowered creatures create tokens and deal damage to the Kardur player upon attacking?
Myriad doesn't care about Kardur's ability. Myriad tokens are created for every opponent even if they have Kardur's ability active.
Kardur's ability creates requirements that force your creatures to ...
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What makes a good alternative to flipping a coin for 50/50 randomness?
Using either Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, the formula =RANDBETWEEN(0,1) will give you 50/50 odds of a 0 or 1. On a PC, hit the delete key on an empty cell to re-roll (or F9 works in Excel too). ...
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Can the combo of Smothering Tithe + Faerie Mastermind + Training Grounds be interrupted by removing the Faerie?
Removing the Faerie Mastermind can stop the combo, but only if the opponent doesn't have enough mana to activate the ability again.
The main action the player with the combo takes is activating Faerie ...
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Can the combo of Smothering Tithe + Faerie Mastermind + Training Grounds be interrupted by removing the Faerie?
Casting your Deadly Rollick puts it on the stack on top of their latest Faerie Mastermind activation, like murgatroid said as long as they have the mana to start the combo over again, they can keep it ...
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Casting Benefits even if spell is countered
You are correct. Because the abilities triggers “when you cast”, that triggered ability goes on the stack immediately after Sauron goes on the stack; before opponents would even have a chance to ...
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What makes a good alternative to flipping a coin for 50/50 randomness?
A wonderfully horrible solution for RNG is an old-fashioned dice popper. They make for a literal pushbutton solution to RNG, with no dice falling off tables. They also make a sound that is either ...
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Can you sacrifice Fleshbag Marauder to Ashnod's Altar, when it comes into play, if you have no other creatures?
Yes, you can sacrifice Fleshbag Marauder before its ability resolves. Your opponent still has to sacrifice a creature.
Fleshbag Marauder's ability is a triggered ability. When Fleshbag Marauder enters ...
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How would Jon Irenicus, Shattered One work with Blood Pet's ability?
No, you can't activate those abilities.
If you can't do something, then you can't pay a cost that requires you to do that thing. So, if you can't sacrifice a creature, then you can't activate an ...
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What makes a good alternative to flipping a coin for 50/50 randomness?
A very simple low-tech solution:
Use one or more decks of cards
Shuffle the cards and lay face down.
Turn the top card for a random 50/50 decision: red or black.
Place in a discarded pile.
Shuffle ...
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Is it possible to pick a vehicle as your commander?
While you cannot pick that specific vehicle as your commander, you can pick Shorikai, Genesis Engine, released in Neon Dynasty Commander after this question was posted. It is a Vehicle that can be ...
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Can you sacrifice Fleshbag Marauder to Ashnod's Altar, when it comes into play, if you have no other creatures?
Yes, you can sacrifice Fleshbag Marauder to the Altar before you have to sacrifice it to the ability.
Fleshbag Marauder's ability is what's called a triggered ability. It triggers when the permanent ...
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What makes a good alternative to flipping a coin for 50/50 randomness?
Use a spinner, like the one that comes with the popular "Game of Life" board game, except each of the numbers alternates with "heads" or "tails" (or whatever 2 categories ...
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Constricting sliver interaction with commander creatures
The answer is, as always, Comprehensive Rule 400.7:
An object that moves from one zone to another becomes a new object with no memory of, or relation to, its previous existence. This rule has the ...
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