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XX Fun
Q: If a player taps one R
and six other mana and plays Meteor Shower, would the
X+1=7 or would the (X) (X) cost mean X+1=4?
-Jared A.
A: Meteor Shower
{X}{X}{R} Sorcery Meteor Shower deals X+1 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players.
Since there are two X's in
Meteor Shower's mana cost, you have to put the same
amount in both X's. So for 6 colorless mana, you can
cast Meteor Shower for X=3 damage, making the cost of
that Meteor Shower {3}{3}{R}={6}{R}.
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Q: Can you counter the
same spell twice?
A: You can play as many
counterspells on one spell as you want. But once a
spell is countered, it is removed from the stack. Any
other counterspells still targeting it will be
countered for lack of a legal target.
(So, if you Fold Into
Aether your own same spell twice, you will only be
able to drop one creature, as the second Fold Into
Aether will be countered for lack of a legal target.)
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Q: What if you make 2
creatures in play legends, what happens?
A: Nothing, unless the 2
creatures you make legends have the same name. If they
do, then the one that gets turned into a legend second
is put into the graveyard, as it has been the legend
with the same name for the shortest amount of time.
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Q: If I Disenchant an
Altar of dementia, how many times can they sack a
creature?
A: As many times as they
have creatures or can make creatures until Disenchant
resolves. See Mantra 11.
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Q: What if I play Brain
Freeze when my opponent has 2 cards left in their
deck?
-Omar S.
A: Then your opponent puts
both cards into his grave. He will not lose
immediately - he has to be unable draw a card before
he loses, and Brain Freeze is not a draw effect.
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Q: My opponent plays
Confiscate on Panoptic Mirror and immediately uses the
Tinker imprinted on it ...
-Gaming
A: He cannot do this.
Panoptic Mirror only lets you copy a spell at the
beginning of its controller's upkeep. Its copy effect
is not useable at any other time.
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Q; A fellow Magic player
confused me and several of my friends by saying that
while an Equipment card is attached to a creature, and
you want to attach it to another creature, you have to
pay the equip cost to "de-equip it* from the creature.
Then you pay the equip cost again to attach it to the
creature you want to equip it too.
-Loek M.
A: This is incorrect. You
can never voluntarily "de-equip" an equipment from a
creature by paying the equip cost. To move an
equipment from one creature to another you control,
you simply pay the equip cost.
502.33a Equip is an
activated ability of artifact Equipment cards. The
phrase "Equip [cost]" means "[cost]: Move this
Equipment onto target creature you control. Play this
ability only any time you could play a sorcery."
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Q: I'm using the Aluren,
Wirewood Savage, Cavern Harpy combo... Aluren and
Wirewood Savage are already in play, I cast Cavern
Harpy, then as a condition needs to return a blue or
black creature, I return the same Cavern Harpy. Then
my opponent cast Incinerate on the Harpy. Can he
destroy the Harpy?
A: You do not immediately
return a blue or black creature to your hand when
Cavern Harpy comes into play. The ability requiring
you to return a blue or black creature is a triggered
ability, and uses the stack. Therefore, your opponent
can respond to that triggered ability by playing
Incinerate on the Cavern Harpy. If no other spells or
abilities are played, Incinerate will kill the Cavern
Harpy, and then you will have to return a different
blue or black creature to you hand (if you have one on
the board).
(Of course, you could
respond to the Incinerate by paying 1 life to return
the Harpy to your hand, which will go on the stack on
top of, and resolve before, the Incinerate.)
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Q: Humility is in play. I
play Uktabi Orangutan. Can I kill an artifact, before
the Uktabi Orangutan gets affected by Humility?
-ferdie
A: No. The Orangutan comes
into play affected by the Humility. So when it comes
into play, it is a 1/1 with no abilities (and thus
doesn't have the ability to destroy an artifact).
See you Tuesday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge
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