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Visiting the Mana Bank
09.21.04
Questions: 11
Q: What does Upwelling do?
A: Think of Upwelling as a
"mana bank." Normally, your mana pool would clear at
the end of every phase. Upwelling stops this, allowing
you to "store up mana" through several turns.
So, for example, you cast
Upwelling turn 4. Turn 5, you play a land. At the end
of your opponent's turn (right before you untap), you
tap all your land for mana. Normally, the mana pool
would clear before you untap, and you would lose 5
life. But with Upwelling, the mana pool doesn't clear.
You can then play a land next turn, tap all 6 land,
and, with the 5 mana you "saved up," you have a total
of 11 mana, just enough to cast a Darksteel Colossus.
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Q: One more Question...
With Worldslayer, "Whenever equipped creature deals
combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents
other than Worldslayer." Does this account for mana.
If so is it just Basic mana or is it non-Basic as well
or only non-basic. Thank you again.
-Xanza
A: Mana is not a
permanent. I believe you're thinking of lands, which
produce mana. (Remember Mantra 12.)
All lands will be
destroyed by Worldslayer's effect, whether they are
basic or not.
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Q: Does Darksteel Forge
prevent artifact creatures from being destroyed?
-RX7
A: Yes. Artifact creatures
are artifacts and creatures, so since they are
artifacts, they will be indestructible.
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Q: Disciple of the Vault:
when an artifact in play goes to a graveyard, can the
owner of the disciple choose which player takes the
damage, or does the damage go to the player who loses
the artifact?
A: Let's read the ability
printed on Disciple of the Vault, shall we?
"Whenever an artifact is
put into a graveyard from play, you may have target
opponent lose 1 life."
Target opponent. That
means when an artifact goes to the graveyard, you have
to choose an opponent to target with the ability.
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Q: Thicket Basilisk: if a
creature with first strike kills it, does the
Basilisk's ability become cancelled?
A: "Whenever Thicket
Basilisk blocks or becomes blocked by a non-Wall
creature, destroy that creature at end of combat."
The ability triggers when
it is blocked. Once the ability triggers, it exists
independently from the Basilisk. That means no matter
what happens to the Basilisk, the creature will be
destroyed in the end of combat step.
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Q) If a creature is
regenerated during a combat that would otherwise kill
it, does it get to strike back?
A: 419.6b: “Regenerate
[permanent]” means “The next time [permanent] would be
destroyed this turn, instead remove all damage from
it, tap it, and (if it’s in combat) remove it from
combat.”
Note the last thing
regeneration does - it removes the creature that was
regenerated from combat. Therefore, if a regenerator
(without first strike) blocks a creature with first
strike, and the creature does lethal damage to it, the
regeneration will remove it from combat before it can
do its damage. So no, it won't get to strike back.
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Q) If a card is destroyed
or sent to the graveyard during play, can the owner of
the destroyed card then officially sacrifice it, even
tho it was destroyed?
-Rob
A) First, remember Mantra
1. A spell or ability will be resolving that will
destroy the creature. You can sacrifice the creature
before that spell or ability resolves, but if you let
the spell or ability resolve, then you can't do
anything before it's done doing its thing (and by that
time, the creature will be in the graveyard).
So if you are in the
process of destroying or otherwise putting a creature
in your graveyard, you can't sacrifice it. Once again
though, you CAN sacrifice it before the spell or
ability that would destroy or send it to the graveyard
resolves.
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Q: I have played a Limited
Resources and the next turn I play Parallax Tide. When
I remove my opponent's lands from the game and replace
them with mine, then what happens when the Parallax
Tide is destroyed during my upkeep from lack of
counters on it? Do my opponent's lands come back into
play or do they stay removed from the game?
~Patrick
A: All Limited Resources
prohibits players from doing is taking the (normally
once per turn) special action of playing a land. If a
land would come into play in a way other than playing
it, Limited Resources won't do anything to that land.
So the lands will come
back into play once Parallax Tide goes away.
Limited Resources
{W} Enchantment When Limited Resources comes into play, each player chooses five lands he or she controls and sacrifices the rest. Players can't play lands if there are ten or more lands in play.
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Q: Can I somehow use
Disrupting Scepter during my opponent's draw step so
they discard a card right after they draw it?
-Joann
A: I think the Oracle
wording speaks for itself.
Disrupting Scepter
{3} Artifact {3}, {T}: Target player discards a card from his or her hand. Play this ability only during your turn.
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Q: Can I use Reshape to
put a Leveler from my deck into play on my opponent's
side?
A: No. You put the card in
play on your side of the board.
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Q: Also, in the Mantras,
does that mean I can't wait until my opponent says
they will take the damage and then boost my Megatog up
to like a 21/21?
-Dustin G.
A: Let's read Mantra 10
again, specifically the Declare Blockers step:
"Declare Blockers Step:
... Once a legal set of blockers has been declared,
both players may play instants. Once both players pass
priority with an empty stack, go on to the next step."
Instants include instant
speed abilities. Therefore, you can play the ability
of Megatog after blockers are declared.
(Declaring 0 blockers,
which is what your opponent does when they say they
"take the damage," is still declaring blockers.)
See you Friday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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