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12.13.04
Title - Sanctum Slaying
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Q; I have some
permanents under the Synod Sanctum and I attack with
a creature who is equipped with the Worldslayer and
it is unblocked. Can I respond to dealing the
damage by activating the Sanctum's ability to return
all removed permanents to play and put this ability
on the stack first before the Worldslayer ability
goes on the stack and therefore end up with the
Worldslayer and all of the permanents that were
under the Sanctum in play when all is said and done?
-Robert H.
A: No. Once combat
damage is dealt, you have a trigger to put on the
stack. So you can't play any abilities until that
trigger is dealt with.
So there is no way for
the Sanctum to put its permanents on the board post-Worldslayer.
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Q: With Uba Mask, if
there are no card in a player's library. what
happens?
A: Similar to Shared
Fate, the game just blinks and moves on. Since the
draw is replaced, the player isn't actually drawing
a card. Thus, he won't lose the game for not being
able to draw a card.
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Q: I understand that Samurai of the Pale Curtain is removed from the game if it is killed. Can you explain why this occurs?
-Traci H.
A: 410.10d (quoted
below) requires us to look at the game just before
the Samurai of the Pale Curtain left play.
Therefore, the game sees an effect that says "If a
permanent would go to the graveyard, remove it from
the game instead." Thus, the Samurai of the Pale
Curtain will be removed from the game.
410.10d Abilities that
trigger on one or more permanents leaving play, or
on a player losing control of a permanent, must be
treated specially because the permanent with the
ability may no longer be in play after the event.
The game has to “look back in time” to determine
what triggered. Each time an event removes from play
or changes who controls one or more permanents, all
the permanents in play just before the event (with
continuous effects that existed at that time) are
checked for trigger events that match what just left
play or changed control.
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Q: If I have a Blinkmoth
Urn out in play and I use some of the mana that it
provides, if I were to use Lodestone Myr effect
would it cancel out the unused mana?
-Ben
A: Um, huh? Are we
looking at the same cards?
Lodestone Myr
4 Artifact Creature — Myr 2/2 Trample Tap an untapped artifact you control: Lodestone Myr gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Blinkmoth Urn
5 Artifact At the beginning of each player’s precombat main phase, if Blinkmoth Urn is untapped, that player adds 1 to his or her mana pool for each artifact he or she controls.
Blinkmoth Urn only cares
if it is untapped one time ... when the trigger
resolves. If the Urn is untapped when its trigger
resolves, you will get X mana, where x=the number of
artifacts you have in play.
There is no way to get
less than X (but greater than 0) mana. You either
get X mana (if the Urn is untapped when its trigger
resolves) or 0 mana (if the Urn is tapped when its
trigger resolves).
If you do not use all
the mana the Urn provides by the end of the phase,
you will lose life equal to the amount of mana left.
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Q: If you had Recycle
out in play, then you played any of the various
cards (Graceful Adept for one...) that let you have
more than two cards in hand, then you could have
more than two cards in your hand because of the
timestamping of the two cards?
A: Correct. Whichever permanent that sets your hand size (See Recycle's Oracle wording below ... it sets your maximum hand size, instead of just making you discard like it's printed on the card) came into play last will be the one that "wins," since they are both trying to modify the same number.
(Note that if you had
something like Thought Nibbler in play, though, both
effects would apply.)
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Q: I'd also like to ask
about the Kaldra set. I don't have the cards handy
(or the cards to begin with...) , but would it be a
legal target for Disciple of the Vault, if it's an
artifact creature?
-Ixidor
A: Again, I have to ask,
huh?
If you are asking if
Disciple will trigger when a Kaldra token goes to
the graveyard, then the answer is yes.
Otherwise, I don't get
what you're asking, because the target for Disciple
is a player, not a creature.
See you Tuesday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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