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Paying for Belching
Q: I'm playing the
Ironworks deck, and I have just an Ironworks and
Goblin Charbelcher out. Can I announce the
Charbelcher's ability, and then sacrifice the
Charbelcher (and Ironworks) to get mana to play the
ability?
-Steve
A: No. When you play a
spell, you have to get the mana in your pool before
you can pay the costs of the ability. Since the
Charbelcher isn't around when it comes time to pay the
costs of its ability, you can't tap it (since you
already sacrificed it for mana), therefore you can't
pay the costs, and thus, you can't play the ability.
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Q: When cards like Myr
Moonvessel and Cathodion are put into a graveyard from
play, a certain amount of colorless mana is added to
your mana pool. If these cards are put into a
graveyard from play on your opponent's turn, must the
colorless mana resulting from the death of these
creatures be used before your turn begins -- in order
not to suffer mana burn? Or is the resulting mana
usable in your turn, after your opponent's?
-Al
A: The mana must be used
in the end of the current phase. If they are put into
the graveyard during your opponent's attack phase, for
example, the mana must be used before the attack phase
is over, or you will take mana burn. This is long
before it becomes your turn again.
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Q: with creature
abilities, can they be played in other peoples' turns?
-James S.
A: Yes. Unless an ability
says otherwise, you can play it any time you have
priority. You receive priority many times during your
opponent's turn, and you can play the ability any of
those times (unless the ability says otherwise).
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Q: I was reading the text
of Flamebreak and noticed it said creatures can not be
regenerated this turn. My understanding was that when
a creature was in the grave you could not regenerate
it has this changed and why?
-Thomas
A: No, this has not
changed. Flamebreak is applying the "can't be
regenerated" clause to all creatures that are damaged
by Flamebreak. Only creatures in play can take damage
from Flamebreak, thus, the "can't be regenerated"
clause can only be applied to the creatures in play
when Flamebreak resolves.
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As a part of Pojo's
continuing quest to help you with decks in the
post-Fifth Dawn era, I bring you the results of last
Friday's FNM in Diamond Bar, CA. I don't have
decklists, because we didn't do decklists. 18 players
attended Friday's event.
(All records are after the
Swiss portion)
4-0:
1st place: Don B. - RG Beasts
3-1:
2nd: Mark W. - Affinity 3rd: Sean S. - 3c Slivers (RWU) 4th: Mario A. - Elves 5th: Cory O. - UG Lightning Coils (Retriever/Krark-Clan Ironworks to put an arbitrarily large number of counters on the Coils) 6th: Kjell E. - Dragons
2-2:
7th: Aidan B. - Affinity 8th: Phillip S. - Big Red 9th: Aaron B. - Ironworks Combo 10th: Adam S. - WR Slide 11th: Chris A. - DiscipleTog 12th: Jon N. - Tooth and Nail
Top 8:
Don beat Phillip 2-1 (Phillip was mana screwed game 3) Mark beat Aidan 2-1 Sean beat Kjell 2-0 Mario beat Cory 2-0
Top 4 split the remaining
prizes.
See you Friday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge
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