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Stopping Time
09.14.04
Questions: 15
Q: Can Time Stop be
countered?
Time Stop - {4}{U}{U} Instant End the turn. (Remove all spells and abilities on the stack from the game, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to his or her maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
-kunoego
A: Yes. It doesn't say it
can't be countered, so, like any normal spell, it can
be countered. If Time Stop is countered, the turn
continues on as normal.
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Q: If you play a True
Believer and have a Exalted Angel out can you gain
life still when my Exalted Angel attacks?
A: Yes. Since the Exalted
Angel's ability
doesn't use the 6 letters "TARGET" right in a row,
it doesn't target. Thus, True Believer won't do
anything to it.
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Q: With Decimate, do you have to destroy all of the things on what the card says or can you choose what you want to destroy?
A: To be able to play
Decimate, you must be able to destroy one of each type
of card. If there is no artifact out (for example),
then you can't play Decimate.
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Q: Does a token hit the graveyard? -Brian
A: Yes, and then it is
immediately removed from the game.
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Q: During my opponent's
Upkeep step, I tap my Dream Thrush, turning his Swamp
into an Island. He then claimed to tap his Swamp,
taking the black mana from it before my Thrush made it
an Island.
1) Can he do that?
A: Yes.
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Q2: Can he then use that
mana to play and instant that would destroy my Thrush?
A: Yes.
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Q3: Can he use that mana
to play an instant to prevent me from tapping my
Thrush by tapping it himself?
No. Once the ability is
announced, it exists separately from the Thrush.
Tapping or removing the Thrush from play won't do
anything to the ability on the stack.
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Q4: Can he use that mana
to play an instant to prevent my Thrush from tapping
at all?
A: Again, no. See above.
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Q5: If he has no instants
or activated abilities to use that mana up with, does
he suffer mana burn?
-DJ
A: If he does not use the
mana before the end of his draw step, then yes, he
will mana burn.
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Q: Can indestructible
creatures not be destroyed what so ever? Or are their
spells like Wrath of God, Forced March, or even No
Mercy that can destroy them?
A: Indestructible
creatures can't be destroyed. Period. If they would be
destroyed, nothing happens.
A destroy effect is either
(a) an effect that uses the word "destroy" in the
spells text, or (b) damage done to the creature that
is greater than or equal to its toughness.
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Q: If not then is removing
from the game the only way possible to get rid of
them?
-Lyons
A: A list of some ways
that an indestructible creature can be gotten rid of
can be found in my
7 May 2004 column.
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Q: In imperative
statements a subject is implied, so say, in Final
Fortune, it's basically saying 'You take an extra
turn', however, would you be able to use Shunt on this
card to target your opponent and give them an 'extra
turn'. Then how would this work?
Only the word TARGET
denotes a target. "Each" does not denote a target.
"All" does not denote a target. "You" does not denote
a target. "A player" does not denote a target.
Since Final Fortune has no
targets, you can't use Shunt on it.
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(I have adjusted the next
question slightly.)
Q: If I end my Final
Fortune turn with Time Stop, would I lose?
-Austin C.
A: No. When you end a
turn, you skip all phases and steps between the
current one and the cleanup step. Final Fortune's "you
lose" trigger happened in the end of turn step, which
will be skipped. (If you played Time Stop in the end
of turn step in response to the "you lose" trigger,
the trigger, the trigger will be removed from the
stack as Time Stop resolves, and you'll carry on your
merry way.)
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Q: If I cast a Soul Burn
on my opponent with X=5 and my opponent uses Fork to
copy Soul Burn but direct it at me, will the Fork copy
damage me and heal him for 5 or will the value of X in
the copy be 0?
-SHE
A: 503.2. When copying an
object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the
original object’s characteristics (name, mana cost,
color, type, supertype, subtype, expansion symbol,
rules text, power, and toughness) and, for an object
on the stack, choices made when playing it (mode,
targets, the value of X, whether a kicker cost was
paid, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on).
Since the value of X is
copied, you'll lose 5 life to the copied Soul Burn,
and he'll gain 5 life. (Your original, presuming the
copy didn't kill you, will then do the exact opposite,
leaving everyone back where they started.)
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Q: On equipment cards that
say "Equip only as a sorcery" what does that mean?
-Prime
A: It means you can play
the equip ability only at a time when you can play a
sorcery speed ability (meaning during one of your main
phases, with an empty stack).
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As I noted a couple of weeks ago, my next column
will exclusively deal with the prerelease. All rules
questions will be held for my next column one week
from today.
(If you have a Champions
of Kamigawa rules question, I will do my best to
answer it as soon as I read it via email if you send
it before the prerelease, to help you understand how
it works before the prerelease.)
See you Thursday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge
Bill Guerin
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