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11.16.04
Questions: 16
Shields, not Swords
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We start off with a
correction from last Tuesday ...
Q: I asked about the
infinite loop with Kiku, Tephaderm, and SHIELD of
Kaldra on Tephaderm (not Sword as you answered in the
last column). What happens then?
A: That'll be an infinite
loop. Assuming no player chooses to hop in at any time
during the process, the Tephraderm will go mad hitting
itself over and over again.
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Q: One more thing- what
happens if this goes off in a game? Does the game just
go on forever?
A: If this happens in a
game, assuming no player chooses to interrupt, the
game is a draw.
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Q: If I imprint a card
with Entwine or Kicker on a Panoptic Mirror or
Isochron Scepter, do I play the base ability (or play
one ability with entwine), both abilities, or pay the
extra cost?
-Richard S.
A: You choose how to play
the card with entwine. You can play either mode singly
for free, or you can pay the entwine cost and choose
both modes.
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Q: What is first strike?
A: First Strike is just that. Creatures with first strike will do their damage before creatures that don't have first strike (or double strike).
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Q: When a card says add 1
to your manna where does it go / come from?
-DOTH
A: That mana gets added to
you mana pool. You use it to cast spells. If you don't
use it before the phase ends, you lose 1 life.
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Q: If I have a Panoptic
Mirror in play and I want to imprint Creeping Mold,
will I have to pay two green and two colorless or can
I pay any color mana?
A: The result for
converted mana cost is always an integer. Converted
mana cost never includes color, so you will just have
to pay 4 mana of any color to imprint the Creeping
Mold.
Panoptic Mirror
5 Artifact Imprint — X, T: You may remove an instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost X in your hand from the game. (That card is imprinted on this artifact.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may copy an imprinted instant or sorcery card and play the copy without paying its mana cost.
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Q: Also, in its effect
will I get the instant or sorcery every turn or just
one?
A: You'll get to play a
copy of a card imprinted on the Mirror every turn.
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Q: Can I remove more than
one instant or sorcery?
-Calie
A: Sure, but you can
remove only one card each time you play the ability
that lets you remove cards.
Also, no matter how many
cards are imprinted on the Mirror, you can only copy
one each upkeep.
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Q: Can you animate and
attack with a Blinkmoth Nexus the first turn you play
it?
-Julian
A: No. Once the Nexus
becomes a creature, it sees that it hasn't been in
play since the start of your turn, and it is then
affected by summoning sickness.
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Q: I used Aether Burst
(with one in my graveyard) to return a Horseshoe Crab
and a Morphling back to my opponent's hand. He then
made Morphling not the target of spell or abilities,
he then told me the effect of the Aether Burst
"fizzles" or doesn't work and I can't return the Crab
as well. Is he correct?
A: No. A spell is
countered in this way only if ALL of the targets are
made illegal 413.2a). Since the Crab is still a legal
target, The Aether Burst does as much as it can, and
sends the Crab back to his hand.
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Q: I tap my opponent's
Goblin Sharpshooter. Then I attacked with a Riptide
Entrancer to gain control of his Sharpshooter. But to
use her ability I had to sacrifice her. In doing so,
since she hit the graveyard, can he untap the
Sharpshooter and respond by shooting itself (killing
it so I don't get it)?
-Majestic
A: No. The sacrifice and
control change both happen during the resolution of
the Entrancer's ability. By the time the
Sharpshooter's trigger is put on the stack, you have
control of the Sharpshooter.
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Q: If a 2/2 creature with
double strike were to block a regular 4/4, the 2/2
would first deal its combat damage to the 4/4 and then
during the second combat damage step both the 2/2 and
4/4 deal each other damage thus killing them both.
Correct?
A: Correct.
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Q: If a 2/2 creature with double strike were to block a regular 1/1, what would happen?
A: Then the 2/2 would kill
the 1/1 during the first strike damage step, and when
it came time to assign regular damage, the 2/2 would
look around, see that it's not in combat with anyone,
and not assign regular combat damage.
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Q: If a 2/2 creature with double strike were to attack and be blocked by a regular 2/2, what would happen?
A: This is the same answer
as above. It has nobody blocking it when it comes time
to assign regular combat damage, and so it wouldn't
assign any damage during the regular combat damage
step.
(However, if the double
striker had trample, it would do damage to the player
in the regular combat damage step.)
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Q: If any creature with double strike were to attack and not be blocked, what would happen?
A: It would deal damage to
the defending player in both first strike and regular
combat, so the defending player would end up taking
damage equal to twice the creature's power.
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Q: Please include a definition of double strike that would be appropriate and easily understandable.
-Danny H.
A: The easiest definition
I can come up with is, "A creature with double strike
does damage in both the first strike and regular
damage steps."
See you Friday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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