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Animate Shackles
10.05.04
Q: I have Vedalken
Shackles in play, my nefarious opponent has two
Blinkmoth Nexi. He activates them both, I activate the
shackles to grab Blinkmoth A, in response he activates
his Blinkmoth A and taps it to give B more power and
toughness.
My question is, am I stuck
with a tapped creature that I lose at the end of the
turn since it's not a creature and Shackles stop
controlling it?
-Chad Boyer
A: You are stuck with a
tapped creature until end of turn, but when the
animation effect wears off, you will still get to keep
the Nexus. Once the Shackles' ability have resolved,
it does not matter what form the stolen permanent
takes - as long as it is in play, and the Shackles
remain tapped, you will keep it.
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Q: If I have only 1 life,
can I generate a mana with City of Brass, and respond
the trigger that would deals damage with an instant
(that will kill may opponent) and win?
A: Yes. The triggered
ability on City of Brass is separate from the ability
that gives you mana.
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Q: It is impossible to do
this (I would die) with the pain lands (for example,
Underground River), correct?
A: Correct. The damage is
part of drawing the mana on the pain lands. As soon as
you draw the mana, you take the damage.
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Q: It's also impossible if
I announce the instant and then generate mana with
City of Brass (In this case the trigger will resolve
before the instant and kill me :-( ), correct?
-Freddy
A: Also correct, for the
reason you state.
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Q: If I put the
Treacherous Link on my opponent's only creature and he
blocks my Phage with it, does he lose the game?
-Joann
A: Yes. The damage is
redirected to him, and he dies.
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Q: Yesterday we had a
Kamigawa sealed event but we had some problems during
the tournament. First I will give you the problems we
had and then what we did about them - not truly
knowing exactly what we were supposed to do as these
problems have never occurred before. For future
reference with these types of problems can you give me
the proper answers even though we can't change it now.
#1. During a match a player thought one of his creatures died during his opponents attack and put it into the graveyard. Then during the middle of their next main phase that player realized that the creature was not killed in combat....neither player at the time (because the cards were new) realized this until now. Answer #1 I said neither player got a warning (since its FNM and the set was new) but the creature that died stayed dead. I said this because the amount of time that passed was too great as it could have effected both the opponents plays the previous turn as well as the players decisions before and after he drew his card. A: Good way to handle it there. I wouldn't have changed a thing.
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#2. A player played a
Nezumi Graverobber on the second turn and on the third
turn attacked into a 1/1 guy with a sac ability. He
then after damage used the ability to remove a
"target" card from the graveyard but the was none -
flipped his guy was assigned and his opponent saced
his creature. The "illegal" target or lack there of
was discovered on the 1/1 controller's last phase.
Neither player thought it was an illegal play at first
as again this set is new.
Answer #2 well the problem here was - does the creature live, die stay huge.... we had timing issues- again time passed etc .etc. In the end the player admitted he was going to sac his 1/1 Sakura Tribe Elder to get a land after damage was on the stack so then the other player would then have a legal target. They both agree to this - we didn’t know what to do but accepted it as well since it would still work and it was a realistic conclusion... A warning was giving to the player with the Nezumi Graverobber for making an illegal action. -Dan
A: Again, probably the
best way to handle it. The players came up with an
acceptable solution themselves. (Of course, make sure
the Sakura Tribe Elder is removed from the game under
this scenario.)
Both of the above
situations would be penalized more harshly at a PTQ (I
say this because the current season of qualifiers is
Champions sealed deck), but at a "friendly" event like
FNM, you will want to be lenient with new cards.
See you Friday.
Bill Guerin
DCI Level 2 Judge |
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