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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Judge Bill's Corner
More Questions
Questions: 25
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Q: I have 3 life and I have Worship and a creature in
play. Then I play Reanimate. Would I lose if I chose
something with a 3 or more converted mana cost?
A: Yes. Worship only deals with damage - it does not
deal with other forms of life loss.
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Q: I have less than 7 cards in my graveyard, and I play
Fledgling Dragon. Later I gain threshold. Does the
Fledgling Dragon get his bonus?
A: Yes. If you have a card that has a Threshold ability
in play, and you later get threshold, it gets the bonus
as soon as you gain threshold. (Of course, if you later
lose threshold, it will then lose the bonus.)
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Q: My opponent has a Clickslither and 2x Raging Goblins
on the field and he attacks, I have 2x 2/2 vanilla
creatures on the field. I block the Raging Goblins, can
he sacrifice them after I have already dealt damage to
them and then use them for Clickslither's effect?
-Stampede
A: No. However, he can sacrifice them before damage goes
on the stack. See Mantra 10.
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Q: If a player equips a creature and you gain control of
that creature, do the Equipment stay on or do they fall
off?
A: It stays on until that person moves it to a new
creature.
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Q: If I Sculpting Steel an Isochron Scepter, do I get
the copied imprint spell or do I imprint a new spell?
A: You imprint a new spell.
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Q: If I Sculpting Steel a Pentavus with only 3 +1/+1
counters on it, do I get a 3/3 Pentavus or a 5/5?
A: A 5/5 Pentavus. The Sculpted copy is a brand new
card.
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Q: If a Pentavus gets a minus effect (Irradiate for
-2/-2) while it was a 5/5, can I remove five counters to
make 5 Pentavites or could I only get three?
A: Only 3. Once you remove the third counter, it will
have 0 toughness and be put into the graveyard before
you can remove another counter.
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Q: How does Gate to the Aether work with Future Sight?
-Ray C.
A: Exactly like it does without Future Sight, only you
know the card you're going to "reveal."
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Q: Fleeting Image's effect says that I can return it to
my hand. Would Fleeting Image's effect be an ability
that can be played outside the in-play zone, so I could
bring it back to my hand from the graveyard?
-Brian H.
A: No. Activated abilities only work in play unless it
says so or unless it can only be played in a zone other
than the in play zone. (402.8)
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Q: It's my opponent's upkeep and I have three
Fatespinner out. Is he supposed to skip his draw, main,
and combat phases or can he just skip one?
A: He can choose the same phase to skip. Unless your
opponent really wants to skip multiple phases, multiple
Fatespinners don't have any added benefit.
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Q: Player A has a Promise of Power and two other cards
in hand. Player A plays Promise and pays the entwine
cost. Would the creature token be a 2/2 or 7/7?
-Chase
A: 7/7. Read the Mirrodin FAQ, under Entwine.
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Q: I have 5 mana available with an Oblivion Stone
untapped and my opponent has 2 mana available with
Blinkmoth Well untapped. If I tap my Oblivion Stone and
5 mana and sacrifice it, can my opponent tap it first?
-VDG
A: No. The Stone is no longer in play to be targeted.
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Q: My opponent plays a Circle of Protection: Red. In
response, I play Chaoslace, making the CoP: Red red.
Does my opponent now need to pay red mana to activate
the CoP: Red?
A: No. Changing the color of a card does not change any
of its text. He will still pay 1 to prevent damage from
a red source, not R.
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Q: How about with Story Circle?
-Lee
A: Same thing. He will still be able to activate the
Story Circle with W, not R.
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Q: If I have 4 lands out and play Temple of the False
God, can I tap it for mana, as it would be the fifth
land needed to be able to tap it?
-Kathleen P.
A: Yes. Temple of the False God is a land, so it will
count toward the 5 land requirement to play its ability.
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Q: Two questions regarding Confusion in the Ranks:
first, is there any reason that putting an artifact land
into play (either with the special main phase action, or
some other way) would not trigger Confusion In The Ranks
and (assuming nothing else happens before the trigger
resolves) allow you to swap that artifact land for an
opponent's artifact, artifact creature or another
artifact land.
A: Yes, you can play an artifact land and take an
artifact or land (or an artifact land) from your
opponent.
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Q: The wording "its controller chooses target permanent"
throws me a little. Is Confusion In The Ranks' triggered
(targeted) ability still coming from a red source. So,
for example, I can't take a red creature, no matter what
color my creature is?
-Alan
A: Correct on both counts.
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Q: If I have an Isochron Scepter with Raise the Alarm
and I have an Arcane Laboratory in play, can I use the
ability of the Scepter and on the stack, since I
technically have not played a spell yet, play a Raise
the Alarm and get 4 soldiers in play?
A: No. The spells generated by Isochron Scepter ARE
PLAYED. This means it counts toward your one spell per
turn with Arcane Laboratory out.
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Q: If player A plays Consume Spirit for 5 on a Carrion
Feeder, can player B in response sacrifice the Feeder
and not allow player A to gain life?
-BoB
A: Correct. If the Feeder isn't there, all targets of
Consume Spirit are illegal, so Consume Spirit is
countered. This means the life gain will not happen.
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Q: If I had two Parallax Waves in play (lets call one of
them A and the other B), and an Opalescence in play,
could I keep both of the Waves in play indefinitely by
having A remove B and vice versa, and replacing each one
with fresh fade counters each time?
-Jonathan C.
A: No. You would require at least 3 Parallax Waves to
accomplish this. With only 2, one will not be in play
when its ability resolves, so it will do nothing.
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Q: My opponent plays Orim's Chant as soon as its my turn
before I play anything. I thought he couldn’t do that
until I give up priority...what happens with Orim's
Chant? Do I play my spells as usual, and then when I
pass all spells after are negated or is he right by
doing it as soon as its my turn?
-Tony R.
A: You can play spells during your upkeep. During your
upkeep, after you are done playing spells, your opponent
can play Orim's Chant, preventing you from playing
spells for the remainder of your turn.
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Q: Can I attack with Guiltfeeder as it is or do I need
to power up its attack with my Death Pit Offering? My
friend said I couldn't attack because Guiltfeeder has 0
attack.
-Evan Carmichael
A: You can attack with your Guiltfeeder just fine. It
won't do any damage, but its ability will trigger.
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Q: I played Raging Goblin enchanted with Psionic Gift.
My opponent has a Ward Sliver in play giving all of his
slivers protection from red. My question is this: could
I still ping his slivers for 1 even though he has
protection from red, since it's a blue enchantment
dealing the damage?
A: Psionic Gift
{1}{U}
Enchant Creature
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1
damage to target creature or player."
Raging Goblin has the ability, so it is Raging Goblin (a
red source) dealing the damage.
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Q: If I have Lavamancer's Skill enchanting a Prodigal
Sorcerer, can I ping for 3?
-Platypus
A: No. You can ping for either one or two. To play the
ability, you must pay the cost (tapping the creature)
for each ability you wish to play. Once you play one of
the abilities, you can't tap it again to pay a cost,
since it is already tapped.
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Q: My friend and I were playing. He had an Iron Star,
and every time he would play a red spell he tapped all
of his lands to gain a bunch of life.
-Shawn
A: This is illegal. Read Iron Star's Text:
Iron Star
{1}
Artifact
Whenever a player plays a red spell, you may pay {1}. If
you do, you gain 1 life.
The ability will only trigger one time per red spell, so
he can only pay 1 one time for each red spell cast, and
only gain 1 life for each red spell cast.
See you Friday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge
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