Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:45:45 +0000 From: Paul Barclay Subject: [O] NetRep Reply 523 ======================================================================= NetRep Reply number 523 to the Magic: the Gathering List ======================================================================= This reply covers the digests: MTG-L Digest - 7 Mar 2000 to 8 Mar 2000 (#2000-71) MTG-L Digest - 8 Mar 2000 to 9 Mar 2000 (#2000-72) MTG-L Digest - 9 Mar 2000 to 10 Mar 2000 (#2000-73) Older replies may be found at: http://www.second-hand.demon.co.uk ftp://ftp.magic.asuka.net http://yavapai.ccgnews.com http://www.en.magic.asuka.net LONG ANSWERS: ======================================================================= [David Groman, asking about Sleight of Mind] >1) I cast Bone Shredder. In response my opponent Sleights its text to >"non-green creature". After BS resolves I should choose a non-green creature as >a target and destroy it. Is all this ok? I think so. That's correct. Note that if he waits until you've chosen a target for the Shredder's ability, sleighting the card will have no effect, as the ability is now separate from its source. Doing this _cannot_ counter the ability. >2) Suppose I have Douse in play. In response to my opponents Sleight can I >Mindbend my Douse to blue and use it to counter the Sleight? I think so. That's correct. >3) My opponent has a Lifeforce in play, I bolt my Academy Rector and remove it >from the game to put Recurring Nightmare into play. >--- Can Lifeforce be used to counter the RN? I think not. Correct. Only the Lightning Bolt was put onto the Stack. >--- Suppose RN is not countered, I ret RN to my hand, and sac a creature to put >Bone Shredder into play. Can Lifeforce counter any part of this move? I think >not. Correct. No spells were put onto the Stack. >--- Assuming the RN is not countered, can the Bone Shredder that was brought >into play using the RN be Sleighted? Again I think not. Correct (well, it can be sleighted, but that won't do anything - see above). ----- [Mark Strong, asking about Null Brooch] >Okay, I know this has been asked before, but I need to know if >this ruling has changed. Can you activate null brooch with no >cards in hand, and if so, why, it appears to be a part of the >cost, can you have a hand of 0. Yes, you can - you always have a hand, even if it has no cards in it (if it said "discard a card:" then you couldn't use its ability, of course). ----- [Karl Burlingame, talking about the Animate Dead question] >A little background.... I have been playing this game just over a >year and a half.... I hope you can understand my misinterpretation of the >protection / targeting aspect of the AD / WK interaction. I wouldn't expect _anyone_ to get the right answer to that question (mainly because the card text of Animate Dead is wrong). Even Jeff and Ingo didn't get it 100% right on the first try (although Jeff's mistake was only that he didn't point out that the card text was clearly wrong). ----- [Evan Buckner, asking about triggered abilities] >when do you decide whether or not to pay echo? When the ability goes on the >stack, or when it resolves? What about masticore's upkeep? When the ability resolves. Same as for all triggered abilities, such as that of Masticore. ----- [Karl Burlingame, asking about False Demise] >Does "Skyshroud Behemoth" return to play with fading counters if it leaves >play to the graveyard while enchanted by a "False Demise"? Yes. It's a completely new creature, so it comes into play tapped, with the full number of Fading counters. The name "False Demise" is slightly misleading, as the creature really does die and then come back. It doesn't stay in play. ----- [The Noumenon, asking about Kill Switch] >This is the only card in Oracle that says "as long as ~this~ remains >tapped" but does not say "You may choose not to untap ~this~ >during your untap step." Is this an omission? No, it's not an omission. It's deliberate. You have to keep pulling the lever to keep things stopped. ----- [Fernando Lopez, asking two questions] >1) This happened the other day. Manabarbs was in play and I had 1 live, so I >decided to make a suicide run and declare this: >Tap my mountain for mana. Get 1 red mana. Manabarbs ability goes to the >stack. Before it resolves and kills me, in respond I tap another land for >mana... And proceed tapping all my lands, always in response to Manabarbs >ability going to the stack. When I tapped my last land and in response again >to Manabarbs I use all mana and cast Fault Line... Was that correct? I'm >sure it was, but i could be wrong... Yes, that's correct - you played the situation in the right way. >2) What are the tokens converted mana cost? This is for interaction with >powder kegg mainly. Are they considered to be 0 or they just don't have and >powder kegg can do nothing to them? They're 0 (zero), just the same as Lands. Power Keg kills them very well. ----- [Stephen Chace, talking about drawing cards] >This makes the strict ruling a closer analogy to tournament chess. As >Hanno wrote, the looser definition could let someone _look_ at the top >card without "drawing" it . If you see a card's face, you are considered to have either looked at it, or drawn it, depending on the context. Any rules about how far a card moves from the library before it is considered drawn only apply to situations when you do not see the card face. ----- [Dominick Riesland, asking about Conspiracy] >Kindle (n.): A brood or litter, especially of kittens. > >Does this make it a legal name for Conspiracy? And if so, does a >Kindle spell count creatures in your graveyard when dealing damage if >you make them all Kindles? No. Don't be silly. Or, at least, be silly in a more sensible way. Paul. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- - - Paul Barclay -- paul@second-hand.demon.co.uk -- Mobile: 0958-980180 - - DCI Level III judge -- http://www.second-hand.demon.co.uk/index.htm - - Official MTG-L Network Representative for Wizards of the Coast, Inc -