Official WOTC Ruling.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt D 
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: Complex ruling on Mongrel Man

With the release of the tin and upcoming set some rules need to be 
addressed.

Last week in a tournament when a problem arose. I had a mongrel man on the 
field then I played vampire silphy there were four other creatures on the 
field. My oppenent and I could'nt agree if I got to draw card or not so we 
asked the judge. The question had never come up so he looked up stuff on the
duelmaster website. He couldn't find the specific ruling but found simmilar 
ruling on card that affect more than one card. When you atk with a dbl 
breaker you don't break one then another one after your opponent picks it 
up. You break the second shield even if your attacking creature leaves the 
field. 

Also another example if an evolution card leaves the field you choose
which order the cards leave the field (like if corile was used on it). So 
from that he determined that when you play silphy players choose what order 
thier creatures go to the graveyard. So you would choose to send mongrel man
last thus you would get the effect from the other creatures being destroyed.

JackVipe

-----Original Message-----

From: Warner, Steve

Subject: RE: Complex ruling 


Yes, The effect will trigger off the mongrel man even though he is going to 
die too.  So the mongrel man will trigger for each effect.  (This is the 
"bag of marbles" effect that R&D was telling me about, basically each effect 
is a marble put in a bag.  Active player deals with all of their effects one 
at a time, then the other player deals with all of theirs.  Thus all the 
creatures would go to the grave, then the player with mongrel man would 
draw cards.

Thanks.


Steve
Customer Service Department
Wizards of the Coast