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Title: Replacing Life
Questions: 5 December 20, 2004
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Q: How do Nefarious Lich
and Crumbling Sanctuary interact? If I control both,
do I get a choice? Or do both activate?
-Dmitry
A: Since two replacement
effects are trying to change something that is
happening to you, you (as the affected player) get
to choose which one applies (419.9a). In this
situation, the other one will no longer get a chance
to apply.
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Q: I was playing a 4
player game at my local store. One person was
playing a black green deck. He was at 1 life and he
cast Death Cloud for 13. In response I activated
Pestilence for 1 killing him. My question is does
his Death Cloud still go off, or is it countered
because he is dead before it resolves?
-Aaron S.
A: This is something
your play group needs to decide in advance. There
are no official rules for multiplayer (yet).
My suggestion: When a
player dies, all permanents he or she owns leave the
game, all spells on the stack played by him or her
are removed from the stack and leave the game, and
all permanents he or she controlled but did not own
are placed in their owners' graveyards. Also, all
cards that player owns in any other zone leave the
game.
Your play group may wish
to rule differently. That's fine. That was just my
suggestion.
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Q: For Uyo, Silent
Prophet (or any other copying ability for that
matter), I'm assuming that when she copies a spell,
I guess she needs to follow Mantra 7 as well,
meaning for copied spells like Shrapnel Blast and
Devouring Greed where they have extra costs, the
player must fulfill those costs as well?
A: No. When Uyo copies a
spell, that spell is put directly onto the stack -
it isn't played. So since you aren't playing the
copy, you won't have to pay any costs of playing the
copy.
For a spell like
Devouring Greed, the copy knows how many spirits
were sacrificed for its additional costs, and will
drain the life appropriately, equal to what the
original spell will drain.
(For spells, you can
tell if you need to pay the additional costs if the
ability that makes the copy tells you to "play" the
copy. If it says to "play" the copy, then you need
to pay the additional costs.
This also holds true for
abilities that say "play the copy without paying its
mana cost." You only get out of paying the mana cost
of the card in this way ... all other additional
costs must be paid.
If you don't see the
word "play" as part of the copy ability, you don't
have to [and can't even if you wanted to] pay any
part of the costs of the spell.)
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Q: I know that the
player will still get the mana anyways, but can
spells be played in response to the tapping of land
for mana?
-Natsume
A: Only once the player
passes priority. So if a player taps a land for
mana, and then immediately uses that mana to play a
spell or ability, then you won't get a chance to
respond in between. You don't pass priority after
tapping for mana, and you get the mana immediately
after you play the mana ability, since playing mana
abilities don't use the stack.
(WARNING: Cards like
Dark Ritual and Seething Song are NOT mana
abilities. They are instants, and can be responded
to like any other instant.
Spells can never be mana
abilities. Only abilities can.)
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Q: So after discussing
this with a few people I was wondering - what
reprinted card sets are legal? What I mean by this
is I know that I can use my Arabian City of Brass in
extended but what about sets like Beatdown? Starter
series? or what about the Deckmaster series? Let's
make it simple... other then gold/silver bordered
cards are there any cards sets that are not legal
for tournament play even though the cards contained
in them would normally be so?
-Dan
A: As long as the card
has the normal card back, and a white or black
border, it can be played if a card with the same
name is in a set that is legal in the format you
want to play it in (and it is not banned in that
format).
Let's take a few
examples:
-An Underground River
from the Deckmasters set is legal for play in
Extended because Underground River was printed in
7th Edition, which is a set that is legal in
Extended.
-A Volcanic Hammer from the first Starter (1999) set is legal in Standard because Volcanic Hammer was printed in 8th Edition, which is a sets that is legal in Standard. -A Ball Lightning from the Beatdown set is legal in Type 1.5 (sorry, I refuse to call this "Legacy") because it is from 4th Edition, 5th Edition, and The Dark, which are all legal sets in Type 1.5. -A Necropotence from Deckmasters can't be played in Type 1.5 because Necropotence is banned in Type 1.5, despite being in 5th Edition and Ice Age, which are both sets legal in Type 1.5.
See you on the 28th.
Bill Guerin
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