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Judge Bill's Magic The Gathering Rulings
Title: Enchanting Issues
Questions: 17 3.21.05
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Q: I was
wondering about the control of enchantments when you
enchant a permanent an opponent controls. Do you
still control the enchantment, or is it something he
takes control of, despite you remaining the owner of
the card?
A: You control
the enchantment. Effects can vary depending whether
an ability is on a card, or if the enchantment
grants the permanent it enchants an ability. In the
former case, only you can play it. In the latter
case, only the owner of the permanent can play it,
because the ability is on his permanent.
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Q: As an example:
I enchant an
opponent's Forest with Genju of the Cedars. Do I
have the ability to use my mana pool to activate
it's ability, or is the enchantment then under the
control of my opponent?
A: Since the
Genju has the ability, you are the only one that can
play it. So you are the only one that can turn his
land into a creature.
Genju of the
Cedars
G Enchant Forest 2: Enchanted Forest becomes a 4/4 green Spirit creature until end of turn. It’s still a land. When enchanted Forest is put into a graveyard, you may return Genju of the Cedars from your graveyard to your hand.
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Q: Further, since
the Genju is enchanting his land, does he have the
ability to activate it?
-Sean M.
A: No. See above.
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Q: Local
enchantments don't fall off if it's target is no
longer a legal target.
A: Correct.
BUT...
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q: For example,
Regeneration doesn't fall off if the creature is
given protection from green.
A: Incorrect.
Protection will always remove an enchantment, since
it is one of the 4 facets of protection. It doesn't
matter that the enchantment no longer targets. See
Mantra 4.
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Q: In response to
me tapping my Scepter, my opponent wanted to tap it
to stop the effect.
A: Sorry,
Mantra 1 applies to both players when a spell is
being played.
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Q: Can you make
Morphling an 8/0 and then pump its toughness after
damage is on the stack to keep it alive?
A: Nope.
Morphling will die as soon as it has 0 toughness. It
won't even do damage.
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Q: My opponent
taps his land, showed me the card he is going to
play, and then untaps his land, because he wanted to
tap a different land instead, and said his hand was
still on the land. To me it was a play mistake,
since he already tapped the land and showed me the
card, I call it cheating. What do you think?
A: I think you
need to be less anal on this one. Press the issue,
and I'd hit you with an Unsporting Conduct penalty.
(I also think you
need to stop being so high and mighty yourself.)
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Q: With Cabal
Therapy, do you name the card when you play it or it
resolves?
-Chris
A: When it
resolves. If the person playing Therapy plays too
fast and immediately names the card, and the
opponent responds by playing it, the person playing
Therapy can name a different card.
(I would caution
the person playing the Therapy to not name the card
until Therapy resolves. If he ignores my cautions a
few times, I would start applying a Procedural Error
- Minor penalty.
I would give him
quite a few chances to play it right before I
started penalizing him, though.)
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Q: To trigger
Intruder Alarm, Can I play Verdant Touch to bring a
creature into play?
-Jeff Gurien
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Q: If I enchant
Jareth, Leonine Titan with Entangler, would he get
+7/+7 for each creature he blocks, or does he just
get the usual +7/+7?
-Bargain
A: No matter how
many creatures he blocks, he blocks once. So he only
gets one +7/+7.
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Q: I am at 4 and
my opponent is at 10. My opponent has an Ornithopter
with a Cranial Plating and 8 artifacts in play
total. Can I take the damage from the Thopter, then
play Pulse of the Fields twice?
A: No. Once you
are at 0, you are dead. Dead. Dead, I say. The game
is over.
(This is not
Fifth Edition anymore.)
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Q: If I have a
Toshiro Umezawa in play, and 3 of my opponents
creatures go to the graveyard, can I wait until end
of turn to play the instants, or do I have to do it
then?
A: Does the card
say you can wait until end of turn? No. So you have
to play it right then, or not at all.
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Q: I have a Vedalken Orrery and Kokusho in play. Can I play a (second) Kokusho, then in response play another one?
A: Sure. But ...
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Q: Would he lose
15 life?
A: No. The third
Kokusho would come into play, making both it and the
first Kokusho go to the graveyard. The triggers
happen, you drain your opponent for 10, and then the
second Kokusho comes into play. Since there isn't a
Kokusho in play right now, the second Kokusho stays
out.
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Q: I have a Genju
of the Fields and am attacking with it. My opponent
blocks with a Ravenous Rats. Does the Genju deal 2
damage or 1? Does the Rat take 2 or 1?
-Omar S.
A: How much power
does the Genju have? (No, DON'T LOOK AT THE RAT.
It is irrelevant.) Creatures always assign and
deal their power in combat. The toughness of any
blocking creature is irrelevant.
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Q: My opponent
has a 2/2 creature enchanted with Empyrial Armor and
he has 2 cards in his hand. I play Blood Lust on
that creature, dropping it's defense down to 1, and
then attempt to kill it by putting a -1/-1 counter
(from my Serrated Arrow) on it. Does it die?
-Ling T.
A: Yes, it dies.
Empyrial Armor's bonus is calculated once, and
effects that change the statistics do not make the
Armor recheck.
See you next
time.
Bill Guerin
DCI level 2 judge |
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