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The Red Dawn
Q: Player A cast Sleight
of Mind on Player B's Celestial Dawn and changed the
word white into red.
A: Oracle is our friend
here ..
Celestial Dawn
{1}{W}{W} Enchantment Nonland cards you own that aren't in play, spells you control, and nonland permanents you control are white. Lands you control are Plains. Spells and abilities you control produce white mana instead of any other color. You may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color.
Sleight of Mind
{U} Instant Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "target black spell" to "target blue spell.") (This effect doesn't end at end of turn.)
So our Sleighted Celestial
Dawn reads...
Celestial Dawn
{1}{W}{W} Enchantment Nonland cards you own that aren't in play, spells you control, and nonland permanents you control are RED. Lands you control are Plains. Spells and abilities you control produce RED mana instead of any other color. You may spend RED mana as though it were mana of any color.
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Q: What does that mean to
Player B? All nonland cards of Player B not in play
are red and all nonland permanents he own in play are
red - OK, but all lands are plains and produce white
mana!
A: This is incorrect. Read
the Sleighted Dawn:
Spells and abilities you
control produce RED mana instead of any other color.
This includes the mana
ability of all of Player B's lands.
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Q: All colored mana
symbols are white? or red?
A: Neither. The colored
mana symbols are what they are. Celestial Dawn then
makes the card a red card (instead of the color it
would normally be because of its mana symbols).
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Q: You see, on Celestial
Dawn is printed a white mana symbol....
A: Therein shows the
danger of relying on the printed card. The Oracle is
ALWAYS used to determine the card's wording in
tournaments.
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Q: In this case, is this
change into red by the instant spell Sleight of Mind
until end of turn or permanent?
-Daniel
A: Read the reminder text
on Sleight of Mind:
(This effect doesn't end
at end of turn.)
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Q: Can Ion Storm remove
counters from permanents you control that were not
placed there by one of your spells?
A: Only +1/+1 counters or
charge counters, as the cost requires. But you can
remove one of those type counters placed on the
permanent by an opponent.
Ion Storm
{2}{R} Enchantment {1}{R}, Remove a +1/+1 counter or a charge counter from a permanent you control: Ion Storm deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
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Q: Example: Bomb Squad puts a fuse counter on my Ornithopter, I pay (1)(R) and remove it for two damage. A: Can't do that. A fuse counter is not a +1/+1 counter or a charge counter, so it can't be removed to satisfy Ion Storm's cost.
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Q: Why does storm never
trigger if you use Mirari or Mischievous Quanar to
copy the original spell (the one that has storm)?
A: Because you are not playing the Mirari or Quanar copy (you are putting it on the stack). (503.10)
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Q: When you entwine a
spell, must you do what the card says from top to
bottom or can you do all the parts of the spell in any
order?
-Ray C.
A: You must execute the
actions in the order they are written.
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Q: Can you imprint more
than one spell on Panoptic Mirror?
-Tyler D.
A: Yes.
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Q: How do I become a level
1 judge to run tournaments at my local card shop? I
can't seem to find out anywhere how to take the test.
I've called another card shop and also looked around
at wizards.com. If you can give me any information on
where to look next that would be great.
-Gavin
A: As Ray wrote on Monday,
it is not necessary to be a certified judge to run
tournaments. (Go read his whole article, it's a great
read.)
If you still wish to
become a certified judge, you need to contact a Level
3 or higher judge. There is always a Level 3 Judge
conducting certification at Pro Tours. There are
usually certifications done during Grand Prix events
also.
A link to all worldwide
level 3 judges is at
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=judge/contactinfo.
This does not give contact information, although I'm
confident that if you write Wizards (dci@wizards.com
would probably be the best place for this), they would
either be able to provide the information for that
person or pass the request on to that person. (I have
not tried this, so I do not know this for sure. They
do not put the email address directly on the page due
to the prevalence of harvesting bots, and the amount
of spam the judges would consequently receive.)
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Q: What is double strike?
A: Double Strike is
defined in rule 502.28 of the Comprehensive Rulebook (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dci/oracle).
(Basically, Double Strike
allows a creature with Double Strike do deal damage in
both the first strike and regular combat damage
steps.)
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Q: what is a land lair?
i.e. Rith's Grove
-Frog
A: A land lair is a land
with a subtype of lair.
(The only lairs currently
in the game are from Planeshift. They all tap for one
of 3 colors of mana - one color and its 2 allies. The
colors of mana that the lairs tap for are equivalent
to the colored mana symbols in the casting cost of the
Dragon Legend from Invasion that the lair is named
after.)
See you Wednesday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge
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